leewgrant leewgrant:
Okay, it's not exciting stuff - not like guys eating Big Macs while peering at the Mona Lisa - but remember the fairy tales we were told a year ago?
Flaherty saying we would have a balanced budget and his pet poodle Carney predicting a 3% increase in the GDP this year?
The guy who brought us back to reality was Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, a position established by the Tories. Now they want to hamstring him.
It would mean one less independent voice in Ottawa.
Well, it seemed like everyone knew the economy was in trouble, but Harper glossed over it and promised no deficit, yet here we are a year later and bingo bango, $50 billion more in the red. Of course, his supporters say that it was forced on him by the opposition, but the reality is Harper is just like everyone else in Ottawa, enthralled with power.
Now that he has it, he won't do anything that might endanger it, like standing up for his principles. Just another one of his many flip flops since he moved into the PMO.