$2 billion to Quebec

[mustardman]

The Harper government is ready to cut a cheque to Quebec for $2 billion for gst harmonization. That is if the gov't doesn't fall this week.

Gee I wonder how Quebec will vote on budget this week?

[mustardman]

Add this to the $7 billion? from "tough on Crime" bill and the extra $12 billion they didn't tell us about on the new fighter jets (that weren't tendered) etc etc.

Wow! For a straight laced Economist he is spending money like a Drunken Sailor

Definition of Oxymoron: Fiscal Conservative

[jensend]

he knows the rubes out west will vote con so he can use their money to try to buy the eastern vote. and some people think he has no principles!

[cottonpicken]

Just like mulroney,he is probably walking out of hotel
rooms with suitcases full of cash.

Wait till the housing bubble bursts and cmhc starts
paying the the banks 50 billion a year,then we will
really have something to laugh about.

[agstar77]

ADM has a chair all warmed up for him!!!

[mustardman]

Plus a NEW First. This is the first government to be held in contempt of Parliament in our history.

Ah yes the accountable, transparent and high ethics of a gov't sworn in a short time ago... have come to this

[TOM4CWB]

Mustard,

Would you expect anything less of a Liberal house speaker... and an opposition that is in majority on the Committee that votes?

There is no other rational outcome... considering who holds the power and majority!

The outcome was never in question. The facts are certainly out in the public domain... never before has so much information been available to the opposition... who are in charge of everything in the Parliament of Canada.

There will be a coalition to tear this country apart from stem to stern... if the Bloc hold the balance of power in our new government the Liberals, ND's and Bloc (Liblond) are planning.

How much do you truly think that 'Liblond' will cost?

100B? 200B?

[stubblejumper]

Tom we know you love Harper BUT it is the first government to be held in contempt(lying to parliament) in the history of the confederation.

[gregpet]

You honestly feel the Liberals were never in contempt when they had a majority? If they were in a minority position the same thing would have happened. I didn't realise you held the Liberanos in such high esteem.

[SASKFARMER3]

Contempt what a crock read most of comitee is
liberal and ndp.

[fjlip]

Liars and crooks since Trudeau. And the voters will be suckered again by the sounds of some of the latest discussions. You will get what your naivety deserves. Shame the rest of us go down with you.

[FarmRanger]

<i>”Plus a NEW First. This is the first government to be held in contempt of Parliament in our history.“</i>

Never has more fuss been made about the word “NOT” being used by a minister to defund a taxpayer draining organization.

I’d say the real new first would be the opposition being able to manufacture a scandal out of a minister doing her job. Did the opposition ever think that when the country is running multiple billion dollar deficits, that maybe we should “NOT” be funding racist NGOs with taxpayers dollars? Obviously the Li-blo-nd coalition feel it’s more important to throw mud at the Conservatives before the next confidence motion that they can cause an election with, than actually try to help run the country properly.

Question: Do you think that the Liberals would have escaped being held in contempt of parliament when they stole $30 million taxpayer dollars for their own coffers in Adscam, if the opposition at the time would have had a majority of the house seats and been able to set up this kind of a kangaroo committee?

Question 2: Does anyone seriously think this is even remotely as egregious a breach of parliaments rules as adscam was?

Unprecedented tempest in a teapot is more like it.

Back to the title of this thread: How much more or less do you think Quebec will siphon from Canada if the Liberal/Bloc/ND coaliton takes power?

[SADIE]

very correct Kathy--neither do our MPS.

Lessons learnt with the recent SAPL---CAPLA now CAEPLA work.

Cheers Kathy.

[wd40]

In all fairness to the MP's/MLA's, and I know they are held accountable. But the real big problem is the unionized civil servants that really run the country.

[per]

Shouldn't our check and balance be for the MLA's/MP's to read the bills the bureaucrats wrote to make sure the content is what the intent is?