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Originally Posted by Slava
I actually agree with a lot of the points that Ignatieff puts forward here (and which are conspicuously absent from the first post!). He didn't come out and say Harper should be taken down, and that is it...he has some basis for thinking that:
He accused the government of failing to:
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Manage the country’s finances. He pointed out that government estimates of this fiscal year’s deficit have ballooned to almost $60 billion from zero. Estimates from before the recession until after. Really.
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Protect Canadian citizens when they run into trouble abroad. Ignatieff implied a racist motive, charging that people with names like “Suaad Mohamud or (Abousfian) Abdelrazik . . . cannot count on the protection of the Canadian government.”
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Get infrastructure funding flowing quickly. What little money has flowed, he said has gone disproportionately to Conservative ridings.
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Provide a timely vaccine against the H1N1 flu virus. I didn't realize that the Government produced vaccines and am pretty sure that every Government in the world is doing everything they can to get this as quickly as possible. Stuff like this takes time. How can you blame the Tories.
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Ensure a stable supply of medical isotopes amid a shortage that has delayed cancer and heart tests. Wow, the power they must have to be able to prevent foreign isotope manufacturers from closing down manufacturing plants. Give me a break
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Defend Canada’s public health-care system against attacks in the United States. What does this even mean. Really, just digging for here now.
— Review foreign takeovers of Canadian companies, like Nortel, Inco, Falconbridge, Stelco and Alcan. Just because someone doesn't agree with a ruling doesn't mean that it wasn't done.
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Most of the items listed here are completely beyond the control of the Government or just plain stupid. The Liberals are literally blaming every single problem that is going on in the world on the Conservatives.
You forgot to mention how it was the Conservatives fault we are even in the recession.