As for Harper's 'stewardship' of the economy, lets not forget the budget released in the spring that didn't make all those useless social engineering spending increases that the dippers and the Libs were criticizing them for. He called 'trouble ahead' well before Dion and Layton even admitted weakness in the Canadian economy. Also introducing the TFSA, was an amazing piece of long-term policy work aimed at delevering households by increasing savings. None of the other parties would have even had a subconscious thought about introducing that. Afterall in their eyes savings, investments, et al are only tools employed by the rich to further opress the poor!
Whether or not you trust the Tories with allowing you and your transgendered lifepartner to marry or not is certainly a legitimate concern with a Harper government, but honestly I don't see any opposition party under any leadership scenario do anything more for the economy than open the government purse to their favored industries, friends, and benefactors and call it an economic 'stimulus' plan. They'll pick winners and losers, not based on merit, but rather simply for political and personal gain. So if it's the Liberals: big bailouts for Bombardier, Magna, Canada Steamship Lines, Air Canada (Basically any company with class 'A' and 'B' shares or ties to the Liberal party), and nothing but higher future corporate and personal taxes for the rest of us to pay for this 'stimulus package.' If it's the NDP in a coalition add trade Unions, random cheques for random social engineering purposes ('Green Urban Starving artist equalization fund,' 'Multi-cultural Bilingual Gay Quadriplegic Student assistance fund,' etc.) and a smattering of new taxes and fees (Excess success tax, Investment account ownership fee).
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