Last year on Halloween Flim Flam Flaherty and Steve Harper broke their election promise not to tax income trusts and hurt many Canadians...especially seniors.
It looks like they are up to their old tricks again with Halloween approaching. This time their little game will involve trying to goad the Liberals into an election. An election that no one really wants...except for Steve that is.
It will be a huge surprise if the experienced fisherman Stephane Dion rises to this rather shallow bait. The Lib Leader has been calling for tax cuts for months ("…we need broad-based tax cuts.…I believe Canadian taxpayers would rather take more money home on their paycheck than save a penny on the GST when they buy a cup of coffee.") and as recently as yesterday.
All the while the Tories dithered, awash in a record surplus. A record that will be broken this year by all accounts.
So, apart from the "goad factor"...why does Stephen Harper want an election so badly? Why does he crave a majority so very much that he would try sleight of hand and tongue to get one? One supposes that is a question that only Tom Flanagan...behind the curtain...can answer.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Well, if your in the position to make your "opposition" squirm with just about anything you said or did, wouldn't you want to have some fun with it to? I honestly can't blame the guy for doing something like that, afterall the libs didn't exactly make his political life easy over the last 5 years. So I would imagine theirs a little bitter about it.
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You have to remember that the Cons can take it - all the fear mongering diuring last election - as well as dish itout. The Liberals hate the truth - to them it i called slander. HarperBizarro already knows what would happen if the Liberals called an election - yet pretends that the Cons want one. It will be the Liberals that decide when an electoion will be called.
How about the budget a few years ago when it amounted to about 27 cents a day for tax reduction under a Liberal budget ... I felt like telling them to shove it where the sun never shines.
Here is something to consider why the Liberals keep the Conservatives in power:
Saying she’s disillusioned with the leadership of Stephan Dion, the president of the Sarnia-Lambton federal Liberal association has resigned.
Anne Marie Gillis said Friday she’s disappointed that the party didn’t vote against the recent throne speech.
Had it done so, it would have sparked an election.
“Insiders have told me after the throne speech came down that Mr. Dion and 30 of his confreres were willing to go to the polls,” she said. “They were going to stand on their principles,” including their support for the Kyoto environmental accord.
But after meeting with the caucus, Dion backed away, she said. “The caucus all sat on their hands,” she said.
“It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees,” she continued. “The opposition’s role isn’t to survive, it’s to oppose. I’m a little disappointed.”
So the Liberals decided not to defeat the government when they had the chance and people like HarperBizarro are talking to the wind about the government wanting an election.
If he was willing to go to the pols, why didn't he show leadership and vote - as a block - against the TS? He does not control his own party. This proves that te Liberals have noprinciples and policies in place to show voters of Canada.
WHOOOOIIIEEEE! The tax rate is now back to pre-CON level! Happy days are here again -- now if Harper would just fix those health care wait times, supply childcare spaces and honour signed agreements (oh, did he promise all that?) we can get to doing the important things he wants, like building firewalls and forcing reasonable accomodation on those non-white people...
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