Holding the Government to Account
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Thank you to everyone who submitted their recommendations for Budget 2009, I am always impressed by the wealth of ideas that come from our riding.
With respect to a budget vote, the Liberal Party will support the Government’s budget in the House of Commons. This is the right thing to do.
The Conservative government’s management of our economy has been appalling. They have recklessly overspent in previous budgets; engaged in utterly irresponsible tax policies in order to curry favour with the electorate; misled the public on the true economic situation before us (claiming that Canada would see a surplus while knowing that they had already overspent and we were heading into deficit spending); and introduced an economic update last fall that was a purely political document that would do nothing for our economic challenges. Budget 2009 has many important solutions that we asked the government to adopt. We are therefore able to support it. The alternative is to defeat the budget and have an election. This would be irresponsible in our nation’s time of need.
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