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Sure, but when we havent had a single government within recent memory(if ever) that hasnt broken promises is that really a fair measuring stick?
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Yeah, but that's the whole point.
When the Liberals broke promises, the CPC supporters on this forum jumped all over them. Then the Conservatives made the cornerstone of their election campaign a promise to be more honest and accountable. Now we have a report published criticizing their accountability, and we get a whole lot of "well, every party is bad; they're no worse than anyone else" posts. It's a pretty startling double standard, but the key difference is that the CPC campaigned almost solely on a platform of honesty, openness, and accountability.
But, as was mentioned earlier, supporters of all political parties seemingly have a "sports fan" mentality, putting on the homer glasses whenever their party does something bad, so the reaction in this thread isn't overly surprising.
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I also think that the majority of people (yourself included) actually agree with Harper's decision to stop the tax sheltering in income trusts.
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Oh, I certainly agree that Harper made the right decision to tax income trusts (although he could have timed the anncouncement better). My criticism is that he made a campaign promise -- however misguided -- and then broke it less than 10 months after the election. It's doubly bad because the theme of his entire campaign was honesty and accountability.