Sun Column: This election offers no cheap date
Published in the Sun Media chain and QMI Agency
Politicians are everywhere right now: on your TV, at your shopping malls, at your doorsteps and in your wallets. Yet, the most expensive part of an election is not the $300 million spent on counting ballots, but the bidding war that politicians engage in to buy [...]
April 13, 2011
Tags: Bloc Quebecious, Conservative Party of Canada, Debt, Deficit, Election 2011, Election Promises, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democractic Party, Spending Posted in: Blog Content, Published 
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Paul Martin: Right Wing Extremist?
By 2011 standards, former Prime Minister Paul Martin is a wild-eyed, government-slashing, right-wing extremist with a hidden agenda.
February 25, 2011
Tags: Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Deficit, Maxime Bernier, National Debt Clock Tour, Paul Martin, Preston Maning, Reform Party, Regina, Zero Based Budgeting Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
How to Balance the Budget in 2 Years
Don’t tell me it can’t be done. We’ve run the numbers. It can.
Should the political will exist, Ottawa can eliminate its deficit in two years without raising taxes, or even draconian cuts for that matter.
January 17, 2011
Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Debt, Deficit, Deficit Action Plan, Zero in Two Posted in: Blog Content One Comment
Go Ahead, Make My Day ~ Published in The Landowner magazine
The following article appears in the July 2010 issue of The Landowner magazine.
“I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he spend $60 billion or only 50?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement and stimulus I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is an overtaxed country with a half trillion [...]
September 21, 2010
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Clint Eastwood, Deficit, Dirty Harry, Jim Flaherty, Pierre Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Zero in Three Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
Audio: John Robson on DebtClock.ca
John Robson (hats off) shoots dead centre at the federal government’s Keynesian deficit financing, citing the CTF’s DebtClock.ca . Listen to Robson on CFRA HERE.
February 26, 2010
Tags: Canadian Taxpayers Federatin, Debt, Debt Clock, debtclock.ca, Deficit, John Robson Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
Day of Reckoning
Stockwell Day has set the Ottawa hive abuzz with air of spending cuts and trims to the civil service. This is welcome news as the Conservatives will have no choice but to reduce program spending below what it is expected to reach after “stimulus” funds have been fully thrown away come the end of 2010-11.
The [...]
February 17, 2010
Tags: Deficit, Deficit Action Plan, Stockwell Day, Treasury Board Posted in: Blog Content One Comment
CBC Poll: 65% of Canadians Support Spending Cuts
65% of Canadians support spending cuts to tax hikes or continued large deficits according to a new CBC poll, not accounting for those who either did not express an opinion or did not know. In this vein, 20% supported higher taxes to balance the budget and just under 15% supported the continuation of large deficits. [...]
February 12, 2010
Tags: CBC, Debt, Deficit, poll, Zero in Three Posted in: Blog Content 2 Comments
Day-Oh?
The announcement today that Stockwell Day is moving to Treasury Board is an interesting move for the feds. While the finance minister has repeatedly fended off legitimate questions about how savings will be found to balance the budget, Stockwell Day brings a great deal of credibility to this important portfolio as seen by his time [...]
January 19, 2010
Tags: Deficit, Stockwell Day Posted in: Blog Content 3 Comments
‘Stimulus Exit Plan’ Won’t Work Without Cutting Spending
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today stated that Canada’s deficit will be eliminated over a five year period with no spending cuts or tax hikes. All will be well if we restrain spending for a few years and allow revenue to grow. With all due respect, that just not [...]
December 22, 2009
Tags: Brian Muloney, Deficit, Deficit Action Plan, Economic Action Plan, Jim Flaherty, Pierre Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Stimulus, Zero in Three Posted in: Blog Content 2 Comments
Harper Calls Chrétien More Conservative than Mulroney
“The [former] Liberal government is more conservative on most issues than the [earlier] Progressive Conservative government. Whatever the Liberals [did] seem[ed] moderate because [we] urge[d] them to go further and faster. Conservative voters [got] better results as outsiders influencing a Liberal government than they did as an inside influence within a Progressive Conservative government.”
Well, that’s [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Conservative, Debt, Deficit, Jean Chrétien, Our Benign Dictatorship, Tom Flanagan Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
