Canadians will be hurt if they can't get promised personal... tax cuts... says Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
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What tax cuts?
This and more scaremongering can be found in the article linked above. Oh and please keep threatening me that the daycare program will be scrapped. I can think of no better reason to vote.
Sorry, one more thing.
...Canadians have told pollsters they don't want a spring election, so if the Conservatives bring down the government they'll do it in defiance of voters' wishes, said Scott Reid, a spokesman for Prime Minister's Office
Have a majority of Canadians ever wanted an election? Has the party who called one ever cared if this was the case? Just asking.
Update: This is what I love about the blogosphere. You make a statement without checking the record and you get corrected in a heart beat.
...Half of Canadians expected Paul Martin to chart a new course as prime minister and two-thirds wanted him to confirm his leadership with a spring election, a poll suggests.
The Leger Marketing survey indicated 65 per cent of Canadians wanted the incoming prime minister to hold an election next spring compared with 23 per cent who did not and 11 per cent who were undecided.
But I can spin this! This adds to my high expectations theorem of Paul Martin. The reason the people wanted an election is that PM Martin was not elected as such. This election would give him his mandate to be the great Prime Minister we all expected him to be. Didn't quite work out now did it?
Update II: Tom Brodbeck of the Winnipeg Sun jumps on board the extortion train.
Liberal MP Reg Alcock's threats over the weekend that $1 billion of funding earmarked for various Manitoba projects could be in jeopardy if a snap election is called is nothing more than political extortion. Vote for me or you don't get the money. It's very mob-like, actually -- in keeping with the Gomery Commission's findings of Liberal kickbacks and money laundering.
...He's trying to frighten and threaten Manitobans into supporting a party that has kicked back millions of taxpayer dollars to Liberal-friendly ad firms, some of which was funnelled back into party coffers.
No thanks, Mr. Soprano.
...The trouble for Alcock and the Liberals, though, is that this strategy won't work. People aren't that stupid. In fact, I think the strategy will cheese more voters off.
What Alcock should be doing as president of the Treasury Board is apologizing to taxpayers for squandering $250 million on the sponsorship scandal.
He should be remorseful, not threatening.
This kind of political extortion won't get him anywhere.
