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Map and directions to 33 Avenue Rosemount, Westmount, QC, Canada Welcome to Wednesday Night #1320 June 20, 2007 Terry Jones David Jones David Jones is a retired U.S. foreign service officer who was political minister counselor at the embassy in Ottawa from 1992-1996. He lives in Arlington, Virginia and is a regular reader of The Hill Times and other Canadian newspapers

Terry and David Jones OWNs will be with us this week from Washington, as they are on their annual pilgrimage to Canada (or at least Ottawa and Montreal) to take our pulse, find out whether we are still alive and if so, have we mended our ways and stopped criticizing the Great Neighbor to the South. More seriously, they are keen to find out what the thinking is about the future of the Québec Liberals - in fact all parties in Québec-, the present minority governments in Ottawa and Québec, attitudes towards whatever legislation is pending or not. We are sure border crossing procedures will get some attention and no doubt, both Afghanistan and Iraq.

We invite you to bring your best guesses, latest polls of favorite taxi drivers, and above all, original thinking. Experience has taught us that we often learn as much about what is happening in Ottawa from them as they do from us. They seem to maintain some extraordinary sources from the days when David was Political Counselor in Ottawa and Terry was Economic Consul in Montreal.

Be prepared to share your thoughts on such matters as the Conference Board Report of last week conferenceboard.ca/documents. and, of course, the row over equalization payments. There are always the typically Montreal upheavals, like the current name-calling by Marvin Rotrand and the West Islanders. Should we run out of topics, or even if we don't, there's the new (at least to us) book "the Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University. It seems Professor Caplan makes the claim that voters systematically favour irrational policies. In a democracy, rational politicians give them what they (irrationally) want. Mr Caplan explains why this happens, why it matters and what we can do about it. economist.com/world/

This sounds like a perfectly rational explanation for any Canadian political matters we may wish to explore with David & Terry.

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