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<\/p>\nSupporting it puts the Liberals in bed with the Blue Meanies<\/p>\n
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The Hand of the Blue Meanies lies behind the ‘stimulus’ budget<\/p>\n
Ottawa — <\/span>Despite his protestation that he was putting the Harper government ‘on probation<\/a>,’ this week Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff ordered his minions — I’m sorry, I meant his MPs — to vote in favour<\/a> of finance minister Jim Flaherty’s questionable ‘stimulus’ budget.<\/p>\n Ignatieff graciously allowed his six Newfoundland Liberal MPs<\/a> to vote against the budget, which will force a reduction in that province’s federal transfer payments by between one billion and $1.6 billion over the next three years, a cut vehemently opposed<\/a> by premier Danny Williams.<\/p>\n Ignatieff’s support for the budget was to all appearances based on short-term political expediency. Canada’s corporate media hailed his move as politically mature<\/a>. Really, it gives him time to rebuild his tottering party.<\/p>\n This vote puts the Liberals firmly in bed with Canada’s very own Blue Meanies<\/a>, and raises questions as to whether there is any real difference between Ignatieff’s Liberals and Harper’s newly-centralist Conservatives.<\/p>\n Flawed economic strategy<\/p>\n Flaherty’s budget is a very flawed document. Based on questionable predictions<\/a> of a recovery within two years, even its $40 billion spending largesse that will create a deficit of over $64 billion<\/a> over the next two years, may not provide the stimulus the Canadian economy will need.<\/p>\n Shared belief in a financial élite<\/p>\n Behind the rhetoric of opposition, the Liberal party’s complicity with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives points to the fact that that both share a common belief in the superiority of Canada’s financial élite and its right to allocate to itself an ever-growing slice of Canada’s economic pie.<\/p>\n The main difference between their parties is that they represent two geographically-distinct and competing power bases: Calgary and the New West versus Toronto and Canada’s dominant Eastern establishment.<\/p>\n Harper’s new Conservatives have in addition a pathological streak of neo-conservative religiosity that offends traditional Tories. And Liberals have always managed to cloak their superiority with a mantle of concern — not that that ever mattered where large sums of money were involved.<\/p>\n So don’t be impressed by the protestations of Count Ignatieff, or the apparent conversion of a neo-conservative government to the merits of Keynsian economics. It’s all an act to confuse the hoi polloi<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The iron Hand of the Blue Meanies hides behind this ‘stimulus’ budget, and that’s just fine with Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal party and caucus.<\/p>\n Only a progressive, coalition government will tame the excesses of Canada’s two élitist political parties. Nothing less will do.<\/p>\n\n
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