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Old 12-01-2008, 08:48 PM   #782
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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois View Post
Didn't see anything like this posted:

The shopping list:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Busines...194/story.html

this stood out for me
Creation of a new Crown corporation to manage the employment-insurance program so all revenues are used for benefits and training for workers.

It's been a few years since I was up on this sorta thing, but I think thats a gargantuan surplus thats been spent on other things for years. That alone might be a massive deficit.

Taxpayers are doomed.
Yes, nothing like the creation of a crown corporation to piss away money. Brought to you by the same authors of the Gun Registry.

Ugh:

Strategic investments in key sectors, such as the manufacturing, forestry and automotive industries.

Absolute reductions on greenhouse-gas emissions from industry, using 1990 as the base year, to create a North American-wide cap-and-trade system.
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