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Originally Posted by Parallex
The bloviating about equalization is all baloney anyways and always has been.
Harper comes up with the formula conservatives don't say squat, Trudeau keeps the formula Harper made Conservatives froth at the mouth about the unfairnes of it all, now PP says that he won't make any big changes to it... and I will bet $1.00 and bragging rights that almost all of the Conservatives who frothed about the unfairness of it all won't say squat against that.
If something isn't an issue for you when it's done by your fellow travelers (regardless of your political stripe) then it's not an issue for you at all... it's just propaganda.
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Harper's approach wasn't great. PPs isn't great.
Any solution that doesn't involve removing equalization payments is not good enough.
The problem in this country is that you can't get elected if you do two things- there's more, but these are two:
1. Propose to remove tariffs and the monopoly of the dairy cartel
2. Reduce Central Canada's ability to transfer wealth from the West.
Harper and PP both know this. But they also want to get elected.