Discussion boards are excellent places for criticism, and when the establishment happens to be ideologically far in a particular direction, the flavour of criticism will most likely come from the opposite end of the spectrum (rather than further to the Right). The role of the media, and venues such as this one is to question and criticise, to review and analyse. FOX News notwithstanding, the media's role (in a free democracy) is not to flag wave and be pro-establishment, it is not to be a government apologist, and it is not to spend most of its time critiquing the critics.
If the administration were Democrat, criticism would, and should, abound just as much. Only in this case, for some reason it wouldn't be subverted by others' calling it 'unAmerican'.
While the 911 charge is mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commmission, the so-called administrative charge (or 'system access fee') is BS and a scam.
An April 19th article in the Toronto Star ("Cell providers profit from mock tax - Telcos passing off cellphone charges as a tax") highlighted this problem, but nothing seems to have been done about it.
Personally, I don't really mind the 911 fee, since there are adminstrative costs for providing such a service which are directly proportional to the number of phones in use, but that other fee makes me livid.
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If the administration were Democrat, criticism would, and should, abound just as much. Only in this case, for some reason it wouldn't be subverted by others' calling it 'unAmerican'.
An April 19th article in the Toronto Star ("Cell providers profit from mock tax - Telcos passing off cellphone charges as a tax") highlighted this problem, but nothing seems to have been done about it.
Personally, I don't really mind the 911 fee, since there are adminstrative costs for providing such a service which are directly proportional to the number of phones in use, but that other fee makes me livid.