(via Toronto Star, Hat-tip Let It Bleed)
...This obsession with every priority except people's basic standard of living will backfire. Our economy grows slower than it could if Canadian entrepreneurial capacity were unleashed through bigger incentives to take risk. Government revenues increase slower than it should and its ability to pay for social programs erodes.
In the end, the government can do neither what it wants, nor what it should.
None of this is necessary. The federal government can deliver all of its important services more efficiently and save billions of dollars a year. With restoration of even a minimal sense of thrift, it can restore billions of dollars to taxpayers.
To achieve these goals, it need only muster the will to end the prodigious waste it has tolerated in such causes as the rusty subs, the HRDC boondoggle, the sponsorship scandal and the mismanaged gun registry.
This government cares too much for how well the bureaucracy is doing and too little for how well Canadians are doing. It's time to share more of the wealth with the people who earned it.
I wonder why this is so hard for Canadians to understand.
