....when it is other people's money and your are a liberal.
Grits misused EI system, court told
OTTAWA — The former Liberal government broke the law by diverting billions of dollars in employment insurance premiums to help whittle down the federal deficit, the Supreme Court of Canada was told Tuesday. A group of labour unions from Quebec, backed by the Canadian Labour Congress, wants the high court to set things right by belatedly declaring the diversion unconstitutional — and ordering Ottawa to return $54 billion to the EI account. [...more]
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perhaps you can ask the same question of mulroney who squandered so bad that someone had to find a way to pay back the deficit.
Personally, I'd want my government to balance the books and fix the counties serious financial problems before we went bankrupt.
Would you have preferred for them to have raised taxes to pay back the deficit left by the conservatives? Or, where did you think the money would come from...
on trees???
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