Conservatives Lose Control of Spending

[ChangingColours]

Patience. Clearly an election is looming. Wait for the majority; and then, if the CPC acts Liberal, build for the following election.

Minority Parliaments are always wacky.

Just how many Minority CPC governments do you want us to live through? There is no way the CPC will form a majority government, so with your insane logic we just keep the CPC in a week governing position. Ridiculous.

[Charles J. White]

Clinton, given that the Conservative government will be bringing down a budget on March 19, 2007, and given that the Conservatives have said that they are totally against the purchase of foreign carbon credits as a method by which Canada will fulfill its Kyoto commitments, I wanted to bring to your attention that there is an <a href="http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/cdm-ji/vol-part-en.asp">entire office being funded by the taxpayer</a> to do exactly that.

If the Conservatives fail to abolish this wasteful office in the upcoming budget, perhaps the Freedom Party or Canadian Taxpayers Federation should take up this case and ask why the government is fully funding an office that they have no intention of using.

BTW, thanks for starting this forum.

This was a good thread to have started, and yes, they went for it with the Tax, Cap, and Trade nonesense which Dion was in favor of during the last election.

[Charles J. White]

The federal government released the spending estimates on Monday if I recall correctly, they plan on cranking up spending levels beyond the level of inflation. It would seem to indicate to me anyways, that the only goal of those fiscal "Conservatives" is to balance the budget, which the Sask NDP does all of the time, and which Paul Martin/Chretien Liberals did all of the time.

That is the claim, but there are no numbers backing the claim up ...... considering they are in a surplus situation,

I guess you were wrong...

[Charles J. White]

But with a projected deficit of over $56-billion this year and national debt of over $500-billion, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper owes it to taxpayers is cut back on spending as much as possible. If that means angering a lot of dithering municipal and provincial politicians, who were already daydreaming about their ribbon-cutting photo ops for new superhighways and arenas, so be it.
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[Charles J. White]

But with a projected deficit of over $56-billion this year and national debt of over $500-billion, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper owes it to taxpayers is cut back on spending as much as possible. If that means angering a lot of dithering municipal and provincial politicians, who were already daydreaming about their ribbon-cutting photo ops for new superhighways and arenas, so be it.
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We can only dream

[Charles J. White]

Well they had all kinds of unplanned spending annoucements this past week, billon here a billion there. They have lost it.

I heard the tally over the last 10 days is at 13 billion give or take 1 or 2

Is that it? Only a 13 billion dollar increase in one week...

[Hodgson]

The cutting has started. We're hearing new cuts every day.

[Charles J. White]

"federal deficit rose to its highest point in history" and "deficit to $55.6 billion"

http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/news/ ... d=25918117

Can someone explain to me why the "conservatives", and yes, I use the word "conservative" very loosely in this case, deserve my vote?

[Charles J. White]

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation also reacted negatively to the update, urging Ottawa to cut spending in order to balance the budget sooner.
Even by Ottawa's accounting, the government will add $171 billion -- or $10,277 per taxpayer -- to the national debt before the books are back in black, the group calculated.
"A family of four tax-filers will have to pay off almost $41,000 due to this spending binge," said Kevin Gaudet of the anti-tax group.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada ... 43689.html

[Charles J. White]

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) responded today to the federal government’s economic update, calling for a faster plan to eliminate the deficit and for a legislated debt repayment schedule
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) responded today to the federal government’s economic update, calling for a faster plan to eliminate the deficit and for a legislated debt repayment schedule
The CTF is calling on the federal government to:
Balance the budget over two years;
Legislate a debt repayment schedule; and,
Reduce spending in non-insurance EI programs to avoid the EI tax hike planned for January 1st.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28672

[Charles J. White]

National Citizens Coalition, is slamming the prime minister's government for its "out of control spending."

http://communities.canada.com/VANCOUVER ... -quot.aspx

[styky]

Charles all things considered on the worlds financial stage I'd say we got of pretty darn easy with only that amount of deficit. It could have been significantly worse.

[Charles J. White]

Charles all things considered on the worlds financial stage I'd say we got of pretty darn easy with only that amount of deficit. It could have been significantly worse.

The problem started here:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/v ... hp?t=77730

So we were right, and the followers of the Conservative Party were wrong