The Envelope Please
Solberg, who has asked for an official probe by the federal ethics commissioner into the income-trust matter, says the Conservatives don’t want to reveal their fiscal plan until they have unveiled all their unreleased platform planks.
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The Liberals are after the Tories on the cost of the Harper promises. Now you cannot help but admire the gall of a party which slips on the fiscal hairshirt after a pre-election spending spree of around 25 billion dollars.
But why is Monte being coy?
It is barely possible that Canadians have finally woken up to the fact that politicians of all stripes spend much of a campaign coming up with clever spending ideas which, as there is no other source of funds, will come out of those voter pockets. Playing the dance of the seven veils leaves a rather bad taste in the mouths of voters.
When it comes down to it, the taxpayer has at least some right to know how his or her pocket will be picked. Keeping the cost projections a deep dark secret leaves the Tories open to this sort of shot,
NDP finance critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis says neither the Tory nor Liberal numbers can be trusted.
“It’s pretty clear that Stephen Harper didn’t cost out his plan,” she said in a statement.
“And it’s pretty rich for the Liberals to criticize them — given that they’ve been wrong with their numbers for years.”
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We’ve come to expect this from the Liberals, Solberg is bright enough to know that keeping obvious stuff a secret simply annoys voters. The CPC has the opportunity to do things a little differently beginning with hard costs on their promises. Pity they seem to be avoiding that opportunity.
Written by jay on January 9th, 2006 with
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jay
#1. January 9th, 2006, at 8:25 PM.
Frikking Torbranos. It’s like they are lying to us, too.