- Your government in action: 'Where's the money? Where is it?' Posted: May 27, 2009, 5:05 PM by NP Editor
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Question Period today:
ORAL QUESTIONS
Mr. Michael Ignatieff (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, in September the government said there would be norecession, in October no deficits, in November it promised a surplus, but in January it brought down a $34 billion deficit. Yesterday it ballooned to $50 billion, all this in a breathtaking six months, and still the money has not gotten out the door. This is incompetence on a historic scale.
How can the Prime Minister or any other Canadian still have confidence in the Minister of Finance?
Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC): Mr. Speaker, over the last few months we are all aware that the financial situations have deteriorated in all countries due to the recession.
The fact of the matter is that our deficits in Canada are a third to a quarter the size of the deficit in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan. These deficits are affordable. What we are doing is borrowing money at historically low interest rates to help unemployed people, to build infrastructure. That is what we should be doing and what we will continue to do.
Mr. Michael Ignatieff (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the issue here is the credibility of the Government of Canada and the credibility of the Minister of Finance. Just five weeks ago the Minister of Finance said, and I quote, “I am comfortable with our projections... We're on track”. On track to where? The largest deficit in Canadian history. Canadians just cannot trust the government with their money.
Will the Prime Minister fire the Minister of Finance?
Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC): Mr. Speaker, what is at issue here is the credibility of the Leader of the Opposition, who has been here week after week demanding not just that the government spend more but that it spend more permanently. Now he tries to pretend he is concerned about the deficit. I cannot fire the Leader of the Opposition and with all the tapes I have on him, I do not want to.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Isn't That What The Opposition Wants...More Money?
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
1 comment:
Maybe if the conservatives weren't so stupid to try and buy people's votes with the useless gst cut, which not only did nothing, but every economist in the land said was idiotic, the deficit wouldn't have been so severe.
But then, it would have taken a 'corrupt' liberal, to be able to understand this, and we would be in this mess.
Do give us this it's what the liberals wanted bullshit Wally. G&M's headline today is Flaherty saying "it's the right thing to do".
The right thing to do was to ensure some revenue to pay for the spending. Conservatives seem to think it's ok to hand corporates all the tax cuts, run the deficit sky high, because they know eventually someone else will have to make the difficult decision later, and guess who will be paying for their swindle? You and me buddy.
Just like Mulroney and his gang... Just like it...
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