Archive for category The Deficit
What Stockwell Day really meant to say
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Crime & Safety, The Deficit on August 3, 2010
Jane Taber, The Globe & Mail, August 3, 2010
NOTE: You’ve got to see the video to believe it.
The Prime Minister’s Office was busily emailing its message of the day to supporters and MPs as Treasury Board President Stockwell Day was unsuccessfully trying to share it with reporters in Ottawa Tuesday. Read on »
A gazebo for Tony
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, The Deficit on June 3, 2010
By Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 2010
Everyone who reads a newspaper knows that the resort town of Huntsville will play host to the world’s economic leaders later this month. They also know the G8 summit will be fantastically expensive. And they are paying the bill. Read on »
The G20: A billion dollars worth of what?
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, The Deficit on May 27, 2010
The National Post Editorial Board, May 27, 2010
Admittedly, the security bill is staggering for the G8 and G20 summits to be held back-to-back in Ontario next month. Nearly $1-billion is an eye-popping sum. That’s almost as much as the cost of security for the entire Winter Olympics in Vancouver last February, and the Olympics lasted two weeks. The two summits in Huntsville and Toronto will be over and done with in just three days. Read on »
Can you spare $10 billion?
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Crime & Safety, Taxes, The Deficit on May 11, 2010
VANCOUVER SUN MAY 5, 2010
Conservatism, in both theory and practice, advocates that governments must introduce changes only when there is substantial evidence of their potential efficacy, and only when their costs are known and manageable.
Just how unconservative the federal government is acting is evident from its criminal justice reforms. Read on »
What has changed in Ottawa in two months?
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Democracy, Liberals, Taxes, The Deficit, The Economy on March 2, 2010
by Andrew Coyne, Macleans Magazine, March 1, 2010
Parliament returns, to a changed political landscape. As late as mid-December, the Conservatives were still leading the Liberals by eight to 10 points. Two months and one prorogation later, the parties are statistically tied. Read on »
Harper: “Obscene” and “Monstrous” pension
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Human Rights, The Deficit on February 28, 2010
by Richard Cléroux, The West Island Chronicle, February 28, 2010
The budget is coming up this week. It’s a budget so important that Stephen Harper decided that Parliament had to be closed down for two months to prepare it. Read on »
Analysis: Jim Flaherty’s sacred cows — corporate tax cuts
Posted by sitemaster in Taxes, The Deficit, The Economy on February 24, 2010
Les Whittington, Ottawa Bureau, The Toronto Star, February 24, 2010
OTTAWA–Faced with skyrocketing debts, the federal Conservatives say they will begin cutting spending on government programs in the March 4 budget. But the massive corporate tax cuts that are deepening Ottawa’s deficit hole every year will not be touched, officials say. Read on »
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