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Typical politician B.S.
Why is it that anyone who disagrees with the Harper government is an "elitist"? For the record, I've voted Conservative many times. Harris started the change, but mainly Harper has converted my vote to the Liberals. Under the Conservatives and their "tax cuts" the national debt has increased, schools have had to introduce fees for just about everything, municipal services have decreased, and hwy 407 tolls have gone up five-fold, just to name a few things.
Oh, and by the way, I own a long gun, live in the country and I support the long-gun registry!
Why is it that anyone who disagrees with the Harper government is an "elitist"? For the record, I've voted Conservative many times. Harris started the change, but mainly Harper has converted my vote to the Liberals. Under the Conservatives and their "tax cuts" the national debt has increased, schools have had to introduce fees for just about everything, municipal services have decreased, and hwy 407 tolls have gone up five-fold, just to name a few things.
Oh, and by the way, I own a long gun, live in the country and I support the long-gun registry!
It was Paul Martin who fixed the problems caused by Mulroney's spending spree. Now it's Harper who has royally screwed Martin's spending and revenue fixes. The stats don't lie: Harper and Van Loan have created the highest spending Canadian government in history. Thanks to their "leadership", yet another Tory government will leave a mess for a future government to clean up.
Bigger government, don't forget, it was the Stephen Harper and the Conservatives which introduced 30 new seats in the House of Commons in April.
Canada has fared well in it's recession because of the fiscal and monetary structure that were already in existence.
But there will be consequences if the government fails to address the stagnation in unemployment and focus on continued tunnelvision of defecit reduction. $3000 savings in taxes are nothing, when there is no income being taken into consideration. Let alone, the millions you are spending for those who depend on EI.
The longer the unemployed are unemployed, the more expensive will be the recovery to bring those back to work who have lost self confidence, and need to be re-trained. Statistics for unemployment are also being skewed by the proportion of work sharing and part-time work. Labour Market strategies should have been taken into consideration, a good example would be the Scandinavian countries who used labour market strategies to keep citizens productive.
It was also the Conservatives' who pre-emptively whopped out a hefty stimulus package of $47.2-billion last year. Don't forget $9.5 Million of this to GM Canada. No one has mentioned the fact that this done in partnership with the American government and their $30 Billion to GMAmerica, in order to "save" GM and the many Canadian jobs, which were in turn lost anyways, when several months later GMAmerica closed it's Canadian plant.
There has been very little done in way of Labour structure and has been little done to help exporters. The small minority Conservative government, let alone, a young one and inexperienced one, was not equipped to handle all of the issues with the Canadian economy. There was not enough being done to all aspects of macroeconomic policy. Progrogueing of government, stalling on important issues, focusing on "separatists" and ideological issues, placating to “the World stage” like the G8 and G20 summits, not being transparent, and playing dumb politics, when Canada required more manpower (bigger government) to address all of these economic issues which were taking place, Canada could have been up there with China, India and Brazil in positive growth during the financial crises had it not been for these issues.
Canada has fared well in it's recession because of the fiscal and monetary structure that were already in existence.
But there will be consequences if the government fails to address the stagnation in unemployment and focus on continued tunnelvision of defecit reduction. $3000 savings in taxes are nothing, when there is no income being taken into consideration. Let alone, the millions you are spending for those who depend on EI.
The longer the unemployed are unemployed, the more expensive will be the recovery to bring those back to work who have lost self confidence, and need to be re-trained. Statistics for unemployment are also being skewed by the proportion of work sharing and part-time work. Labour Market strategies should have been taken into consideration, a good example would be the Scandinavian countries who used labour market strategies to keep citizens productive.
It was also the Conservatives' who pre-emptively whopped out a hefty stimulus package of $47.2-billion last year. Don't forget $9.5 Million of this to GM Canada. No one has mentioned the fact that this done in partnership with the American government and their $30 Billion to GMAmerica, in order to "save" GM and the many Canadian jobs, which were in turn lost anyways, when several months later GMAmerica closed it's Canadian plant.
There has been very little done in way of Labour structure and has been little done to help exporters. The small minority Conservative government, let alone, a young one and inexperienced one, was not equipped to handle all of the issues with the Canadian economy. There was not enough being done to all aspects of macroeconomic policy. Progrogueing of government, stalling on important issues, focusing on "separatists" and ideological issues, placating to “the World stage” like the G8 and G20 summits, not being transparent, and playing dumb politics, when Canada required more manpower (bigger government) to address all of these economic issues which were taking place, Canada could have been up there with China, India and Brazil in positive growth during the financial crises had it not been for these issues.
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