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Message to Flaherty: Butt Out!Category: Politics In the past few weeks, federal Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, has been offering his opinions on economic issues involving the province of Ontario. Have his comments been helpful? No, of course not! Ontario is governed by a Liberal government. Would we expect a federal Conservative to say good things about Ontario? 
Flaherty has been pushing for business tax cuts. For those living outside Ontario, it should be noted that Flaherty was part of the Mike Harris government which ruled Ontario from 1995 to 2003. The massive tax cuts brought in during those years resulted in drastic cuts to the funding of health care and education, as well as other valuable social programs. Flaherty's rantings are unwelcome for other reasons. How can Ontarians tolerate a federal minister who actively discourages business investment in a province of Canada? How can Canadians as a whole tolerate such blatant partisan meddling? Provincial spending is the responsibility of the provincial government, not the federal government. The citizens of Ontario made it very clear in 2003 that we didn't want Conservatives ruining this province anymore. And yet Flaherty is doing his best to continue that work. Of course, there's one thing Flaherty could do to help out Ontario. Currently, the federal government takes in 20 billion dollars more in taxes from Ontario than it returns to the province. Reducing that deficit would, of course, have an incredibly positive impact to the provincial economy. While Harper and Flaherty are doing their best to bring more Liberals and New Democrats to Ottawa in the next election, they're also having an impact on the provincial Conservatives. PC leader John Tory today announced that his party will not object to the provincial budget. While this might seem strange on the surface, clearly he is trying to distance himself and his party from his federal counterparts. One more interesting piece of political news today was a clarification to the federal budget. The resurrected train service between Toronto and Peterborough turns out to be just funding for a feasability study. Some analysts suggest that Flaherty overstepped his bounds in announcing the new passenger service. Omnifariously yours, Hans path: /Politics | permanent link to this entry  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
