The Canadian National Newspaper: Canada's Finance Minister Delivers an IOU to Canadians on Budget

When Liberal and NDP leadership groups consider whether to topple the government on the presented Throne Speech, they might wish to consider whether an apparent "IOU" in response to the prevailing economic crisis is good enough. It is apparent that the Stephen Harper government is presenting to Canadians a large multi-billion dollar promissory note, in the form of a budget. The Harper government's budget lacks an immediate proactive approach on the week to week worsening economic conditions in Canada, which threaten jobs, and overall quality of living in Canada.

By making the distribution of money contingent upon matching expenditures that cash-strapped provincial government do not have, and by promising other money sometime in future, rather than now, the Harper government seeks to largely use the "carrot on the stick" method "leading the horse", to prop up its government.

It is apparent that the federal budget contradicts with the apparent eugenics biases of ideologues within the Conservative Party, and that it is arguably unlikely that the Harper government actually plans to fulfill the spirit of the Federal budget. Just like Harper proroguing, the Budget can be seen as a clever ploy and act of political gamesmanship, rather than borne out of a sincere context of "consultation with Canadians" that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty claims. The most recent political gamesmanship of the Harper government was its proroguing, that made Canada appear to be some corrupt so-called Third World country reminiscent of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. It was so notably corrupt, that even the normally parochial U.S. mass media took an interest in Canadian politics.

When considering whether to topple the Federal government, and to forge a coalition, Mr. Igantieff and Mr. Layton might wish to consider the dubious and manipulative track record of the Conservative Party as a substantive indication on whether to trust the Harper government.

Arguably, too much is riding on supporting a government which claims to seek to defend Canadian sovereignty and other national interests, while it is actively pursuing the neo-fascist North American Union (NAU) agenda.

A Liberal-NDP Coalition government can better defend and affirm Canada's quality-of-living than a Conservative government that has been prevailing over worsening economic disparity, long before the current financial crisis. Indeed, the Liberals have had a better fiscal track record than the Conservatives. Isn't it time for socially progressive change in Ottawa?

Capitalism is Not Democracy, ISBN: 1894934636, and Human Development and the Quality-of-Life, ISBN: 1897036353.

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