As I go through the NDP costs document I get really curious at how they arrive at their figures.
For example they want to add 25,000 daycare spaces in their first year at a cost of $300 million, yet in the Quebec budget where they have a well established daycare program they added 15,000 daycare spaces at a cost of $568 million dollars.
When I look at the revenues side they have 4 years worth of revenue inreases that average 12 billion per year. Ignoring the tax haven and community crime revenues. They have increases in business taxes averaging $8.4 billion. They have a 2 billion dollar per year revenue jump due to the removal of the fossil fuel subsidy.
Nowhere in the document do they show the cap and trade revenues which have been estimated to go to 7 billion per year. So under their platform, the largest employers in this country will get the crap hammered out of them.
This is a vacuum document, they expect that they can basically create a massive cost increase to business to pay for their social programs, yet it will have no effect on employment or business reinvestment.
http://xfer.ndp.ca/2011/2011-Platfor...mSS_web_en.pdf