In December 2005 Conservative MP Garth Turner supported a GST cut calling the Liberals liars for saying an income tax cut would be kinder to low income earners. But this month Liberal MP Garth Turner (same guy) called the decision to cut the GST a “dumb decision”.
Dumb decision? If the voters of Halton, Ontario put this hypocritical, two-faced coward back in Parliament it will be a dumb decision.
More? Read “Then And Now: GST Cut Good, GST Cut Bad” by the Globe’s Dan Cook.
The Liberals persist in the pretense that you can rebuild Afghanistan without first securing it. They want our troops to sit on the sideline while others (who? the Americans?) do the fighting. That might be the Liberal way, but it isn’t the Canadian way.
The Conservative government is doing all it can to provide our excellent troops with the equipment, training, manpower and support they need to do their job. They aren’t a bunch of engineers - they are soldiers. There job is to protect us from terrorists. If they need to fight to do that, let them fight.
The Taliban would like nothing more than for the Liberals to win the next election. So bring it on, let’s fight the Liberals and the Taliban at the same time.
“All taxation is a loss per se. It is the sacred duty of the government to take only from the people what is necessary to the proper discharge of the public service; and that taxation in any other mode, is simply in one shape or another, legalized robbery.”
Who was the raving lunatic libertarian to speak such nonsense? How about Robert Cartwright, Canada’s first Liberal minister of finance. (Back then Liberals were true liberals.)
If it is wrong for me to take money from my neighbour without his consent no matter how good my intentions are for using that money, how can I authorize politicians to do so simply by making an “X” in a box on election day? I can’t delegate an authority I don’t have. And no matter how many people join my gang, and no matter what my gang calls itself, if it takes my neighbour’s money without his consent, it’s theft pure and simple. Calling the gang “the government” doesn’t change a thing - taxation is theft - legalized robbery.
The latest hard evidence that the CBC is NOT Canada’s broadcaster but the broadcaster of the Liberal Party can be found in the revelation that it was the CBC that was coming up with the questions for the Liberal members of the Ethics Committee to ask Brian Mulroney. You can read the report exposing the CBC and see the news clip here.
Now here’s something you don’t see too often - a poll with only a 2.5 point margin of error 19 times out of 20 showing voter preference in the Atlantic Provinces. Mind you, the Herald story doesn’t provide all the details (typical). But the details for Nova Scotia are there with a slightly higer margin of error. Applying these figures to the UBC Election Forecaster the results in seats in NS would be:
Lib = 5 (-1)
CPC = 4 (+1)
NDP = 2 (same)
The two wild card ridings in this are the neighbouring ones of Central Nova (where no Liberal will be running) and Cumberland-Colchester (where Bill Casey is the incumbent). First Cumberland-Colchester: the UBC results show that there should be enough “blue” support there that Casey and the CPC candidate could slit the vote right down the middle and still have enough that whichever one is slightly ahead will beat the NDP and Liberals. So it might be 4 CPC seats or 3 plus an independent. Despite his political heritage Casey has voted with the opposition more often than the government since his ouster so that would really be a loss for the Conservatives.
In Central Nova, Dion is the only one expecting Liberals to vote Green. May will trail the field and the only issue is whether enough disenfranchised Liberals will vote NDP to upset Peter MacKay. According to this poll MacKay is still in the drivers seat by a still-comfortable margin.
So where is that extra CPC seat? In West Nova where the poll has Robert Thibault, lead Liberal on the House Ethics Committee, losing to the CPC candidate by 6 points.
The situation for the Conservatives in the region should improve even more with the war between Ottawa and St. John’s blowing over. Here’s hoping.
In this column by Ian MacDonald he correctly fingers the new collection of Liberal and NDP MPs who are hitching their political stars to how low they can stoop in mischaracterizing the actions of anyone they can associate with their political opponents. Once again, the left, devoid of convincing policy arguments, assumes that voters are gullible enough to believe anything bad about anyone and the bigger the lie the better.
Hopefully come election time these new rat packers will be sent packing.