Economic stabillity message simply spin

The Conservatives’ economic stability message becoming a myth: Tim Harper

A struggling middle class in this country needs help and the politician who throws the lifeline will win the next election.

OTTAWA—Stephen Harper won a majority in 2011 on a simple message of economic stability and he has left no doubt he wants that to be the ballot question again in 2015.
 

But a flurry of inconvenient numbers released this week is muddling that message.

They have provided us an early glimpse of where the next campaign will be fought.

In Harper’s Canada, more than four in 10 of us live paycheque to paycheque.
 

Almost half of us over 50 have barely one-quarter of what we will need for our retirement.
 

In Harper’s Canada, wealth is the domain of middle-aged white men, but if you are a visible minority or an aboriginal working full time you are earning well below the national median income.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/13/the_conservatives_economic_stability_message_becoming_a_myth_tim_harper.html

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JEFFREY SIMPSON

Between boast and reality lie Canada’s deficits

 

Mark Carney, as governor of the Bank of Canada, used to urge Canadians to export their way to greater prosperity, especially by selling more to emerging markets, particularly China and India.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper seemed to agree. His government launched trade negotiations, or floated the idea of trade negotiations, in various parts of the world.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/between-boast-and-reality-lie-canadas-deficits/article14302351/

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Comment......

Dave Turchynsky It doesn't matter that whole regions of the boreal forest is under the black goo. It doesn't matter that Canada's indigenous people are being forced off their land. It doesn't matter that our parliamentary democracy has been systematically dismantled. It doesn't matter that our democratic elections system has been compromised. It doesn't matter that the quality of our water, air and food is no longer protected. It doesn't matter that the government wants to pry into the business of every citizen in the country with impunity. It doesn't matter that the government is eager to send our young adults into wars we have no business being involved in. It doesn't matter that the government ignores those young adults when their broken bodies and minds are returned home.

The only thing that matters is whether or not Mr. or Ms. Average Canuck gets a few extra bucks in their pay packet - that's assuming Mr. or Ms. Jones actually has a job that pays well enough to warrant the extra money in the first place.

I don't know which is more pathetic. This lying, thieving bunch of thugs that pass for a government - or the idiots who blindly haul the water for them.