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RSS FeedsHeather Scoffield: Conservative and Liberal fiscal fighting denies Canadians a clear choice
(The Star Travel)

 
 

22 may 2019 00:23:47

 
Heather Scoffield: Conservative and Liberal fiscal fighting denies Canadians a clear choice
(The Star Travel)
 


Within a couple of hours of Andrew Scheer delivering a key speech on economic policy last week, Finance Minister Bill Morneau popped up on Twitter and Facebook with a highly scripted critique of the plan — complete with the requisite students forming a human backdrop behind him.An ad by any other name, the two-minute clip was ostensibly a response to a reporter’s question about Scheer’s proposal to end oil imports. Journalists had been invited to question the minister for his reaction to Scheer, although Morneau’s response did not make a single mention of oil imports.Rather, Morneau sought to obfuscate.The Conservatives, he said, would have to chop $55 billion out of the federal budget in order to keep all their promises. Scheer would cause the economy to shrink, kill jobs and cut programs. According to a Liberal party press release, he would likely hit seniors, students and rural Canadians.Scheer has been a good match for the obfuscation. In his speech, even before he got to the new ideas that will form the basis of his election platform, he took repeated aim at the Liberals. Under Trudeau, he said, the government has raised taxes on the middle class, is spending recklessly and has squandered all the good things left to Canada by the previous Conservative government.Both parties are accusing the other of having no credibility on fiscal policy, systematically — and ironically — undermining their own credibility by hurling accusations.Read more: Opinion | Heather Scoffield: Scheer’s big ideas still need numbers to back them upScheer says ‘economic storm clouds’ threaten CanadaTrudeau painting Scheer as extremist has risks for PM, say expertsFor a degree of clarity in the midst of pre-election posturing, the International Monetary Fund came out with a fairly independent assessment of Canada’s economy on Tuesday morning. In its annual description of Canada’s fiscal policy, the IMF says Canada’s ...


 
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