Flaherty Needs to Shut Up
| 3/24/2008 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
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?
Then there is that little matter of the deficit that Flaherty and his cronies managed to hide until after the election had taken place. Made me even gladder we had turfed the bunch of them out.
Ontario doesn’t have the highest effective business tax rate but Flaherty seems to prefer to go on the offensive against this province. I hope that taxpayers in his riding remember that at election time. Just because he was finance minister at both the provincial and federal level doesn’t give him the right to try to make demands and keep flapping his lips when he doesn’t get his way.
Interesting that Harper believes that the provinces should be captains of their own ships until he and his crony don’t like how it is being guided. It has been clear that Harper has been flipping the bird to this province since the day he was elected. He likely sees that as not wanting to deal with the Liberals, but, since they happen to be the province’s elected government, he’s really flipping the bird to the whole province and the people therein. OH, minor detail, he needs increased support from this province to get his coveted majority. Got a strange way of earning that trust Harper.
So, Flaherty needs to shut the hell up. He’s said his peace, in about the most overboard manner as he could. Having shoved both feet into his mouth, he needs to chew on them for a bit and leave the provincial politicians to run the province.
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