I'm late posting this, but here is an excellent column by the National Post's Andrew Coyne about this past week's federal budget:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com...2012-this-is-the-terminus-of-tory-radicalism/
He makes an excellent point. For years, the government told fiscal conservatives that big spending was needed to help Stephen Harper find his much-desired majority.
And now that he's got a majority? The big spending more or less continues.
I think former National Citizens Coalition head Gerry Nicholls was right about something he said back in Harper's minority government days. In response to the explanation that Harper needed to run up the tab in order to get a majority government, Nicholls essentially replied: If he's going to govern like a Liberal, what difference does it make to me whether or not he gets a majority?
You also gotta wonder about Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. The guy has spent years trying to brand himself as a "true" conservative, yet he's never delivered anything but big-spending, big-government budgets in Ottawa and in the one budget he delivered at Queen's Park.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com...2012-this-is-the-terminus-of-tory-radicalism/
He makes an excellent point. For years, the government told fiscal conservatives that big spending was needed to help Stephen Harper find his much-desired majority.
And now that he's got a majority? The big spending more or less continues.
I think former National Citizens Coalition head Gerry Nicholls was right about something he said back in Harper's minority government days. In response to the explanation that Harper needed to run up the tab in order to get a majority government, Nicholls essentially replied: If he's going to govern like a Liberal, what difference does it make to me whether or not he gets a majority?
You also gotta wonder about Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. The guy has spent years trying to brand himself as a "true" conservative, yet he's never delivered anything but big-spending, big-government budgets in Ottawa and in the one budget he delivered at Queen's Park.
