that the Conservatives had to send out a qualifier from their war room.
After watching the Neil MacDonald report you can appreciate why a clarification was necessary. For the record here is the Conservative response.
This evening, CBC’s The National ran a so-called “Reality Check” alleging the Conservatives would raise taxes.
This report is not just misleading; it is false:
- Taxes would be drastically lower under the Conservatives than under the Liberals.
- Our tax plan will include cuts to the GST, and large cuts to personal income taxes and business taxes.
- Under our plan, all Canadians will pay lower taxes.
- Only the Conservative plan will cut taxes for the lowest-income Canadians – the 32% of Canadians whose income is too low to pay any income tax.
Under a Conservative government, taxes will be dramatically lower – billions of dollars lower – than under the Liberals. That’s a fact. Details on our entire fiscal platform will be released along with the entire Conservative platform in the near future.
We have been upfront about replacing the Liberals’ inferior tax plan from the outset of the campaign, beginning on December 1st – Stephen Harper’s first announcement on the Conservative tax cut plan. Any attempt to build an argument to the contrary, based on a particular, selective point, is not only misleading, it is false.
