Spending “Review” Continues
I took a little bit of heat in the comments of the National Post over my recent claim that Michael Ignatieff hasn’t forwarded a vision for Canada since he came back to live here, and no amount of consulting with students and so-called “experts” is likely to make that happen any time soon. The reason I’m speculating in that way is because when he was asked what his own solution to the financial problems in Canada would be, he responded:
“It’s not my problem. It’s Stephen Harper’s problem.”
Well, he’s half right. It isn’t his problem right now. But if he wants it to be his problem, he might want to let everybody else in on the magic bullet that is going to get him there. His current non-committal answers are coming off as phony as Stephane Dion suddenly pretending not to understand the English language in order to dodge the same exact question posed to him when he was busy not articulating his economic platform.
But quite a few readers at the Post mistook my reading of Michael Ignatieff’s emptiness as a sign I was defending the Conservative’s own equally empty plans to reduce the debt. Without raising taxes, even.
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nomdeblog Says:
“Equalization” is the elephant in the room on government expenditures with out of control intervention and Enron-like accounting for the money coming out of taxpayers’ wallets. There is only one taxpayer for several levels of government all over-promising entitlements to buy votes.
Ted Morton, Alberta’s new Finance Minister (he should have been Premier instead of Stelmach) has a good article in today’s NP about equalization which needs a reset.
What Ottawa needs to do with those Provinces addicted to the perpetual handouts is to adopt what even Bill Clinton figured out when he “ended welfare as we know it”. Here’s a quote:
“Alberta is the single largest per-capita contributor to Confederation — more than $5,700 from every Albertan man, woman and child; for a whopping total of over $21-billion last year alone. However, Ontario contributes just as much (in total), even though, in some respects, it is worse off than not just Alberta. But Ontario, on a per capita basis, has fewer doctors, nurses and hospital beds than some of the so-called ‘have not provinces’ such as Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick.”
Read the whole thing:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/story.html?id=2470286
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 8:37 am
MaryT Says:
I agree, Ted should be Premier of Alberta.
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 10:17 am