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To somehow hold the Liberals' feet to the fire is because they chose to scrap the GST cuts in favour of returning the country to economic prosperity is, in my opinion, a laughable, cynical, partisan and (most of all) simple minded argument.
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And don't forget hypocritical. Most of the same Conservative supporters who blast the Liberals for breaking their campaign pledge to scrap the GST are now giving Harper a free ride over his broken promose not to tax income trusts.
Harper on the campaign trail:
From the CPC campaign platform,
Stand Up for Canada:
http://www.conservative.ca/media/20060113-Platform.pdf
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preserve income trusts by not imposing any new taxes on them
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But wait! Look what happened less than a year after the Conservatives had been in power!
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2006/10/31/flaherty.html
Where's the outrage, CPC supporters, where's the outrage? You've been blasting the Liberals for 15 years over an unkept campaign promise, but when the Harper government doesn't just fail to keep a promise but instead does
precisely what they said they would never do, you give them a pass. Maybe some of the conservatives on this site have been drinking that Oiler-fan kool-aid and it's made them unable to look at their favourite party objectively.
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Fixed embedded youtube link.