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Flaherty Needs to Shut Up

3/24/2008

Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics

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I certainly hope that when the time comes that voters in Flaherty’s riding keep in mind his dumping on Ontario as the federal finance minister. I hope they remember his remarks, made nationally and internationally, that told businesses to stay away from Ontario. I know, in his little partisan mind he thinks he was telling Ontario their only good way to operate. Hate to break it to you Flaherty ol’ boy, just because your buddy Stephen appointed you to the post of finance minister doesn’t make you right.

You may sincerely believe what you espouse, that Ontario needs to lower their corporate tax rates, some economists agree with you although, not all to the extent you claim you are right. You seem to keep forgetting that the people of Ontario rejected you and your colleagues brand of fiscal management in 2003 and again in 2007. Course the rejection in 2007 had more to do with the talking head that beat you for leadership of the provincial Conservatives. Oh right, I almost forgot, your own party didn’t see you as fit to call the shots, so why should the elected government of Ontario? (more…)