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shared by Noah Schafer on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached

Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his party's election platform Friday, promising a Conservative government would eliminate the deficit by 2014-2015
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Harper said there were no plans to cut major programs and said the billions in cost savings required to balance the books would come from slashing government's operating cost
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Conservatives understand you cannot tax your way to prosperity, you cannot create jobs by raising taxes," Harper said.
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It also features a bundle of crime bills that would be passed in the first 100 days of Parliament
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The five main priorities of the campaign platform are jobs creation, supporting families, eliminating the deficit, getting tough on crime, and investing in the North.
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shared by Lok-Hin Yuen on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached

The layoff of 100 Bell Canada workers is appalling, and a clear sign the next federal government needs to do much more to protect Canadian workers
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BCE has eliminated close to 700 clerical jobs in Ottawa, many of the positions being outsourced outside of Canada.
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The layoff of these workers is a far too common example of how the 'trickle-down' thinking of the Harper Conservatives is failing Canadian workers
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corporate tax cuts are not creating jobs or investments, and they are not helping Canadians recover from the global recession
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shared by Mike Seo on 03 Jun 11 - No Cached

The president of Canada Pork International warns the lack of a Canada-South Korea free trade agreement threatens to cost Canada a pork export market worth over 100 million dollars a year.
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Representatives of the Canadian pork industry have asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper to become directly involved in getting free trade discussions back on track.
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Canada pork International president Jacques Pomerleau says Canada’s trading partners in South Korea have warned, without a free trade agreement, Canada will be out of that market within two years.
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We have to remember that Korea is a very price sensitive market and the fact that there’s no plan for Canada to have a free trade agreement.
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shared by Chris Lee on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached

, Canada is witnessing a phenomenon in which the most wealthy are enjoying stunning increases in their income while the rest of society stagnates.
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Angel Gurria, head of the industrialized world’s main think tank, is warning that income equality is becoming a “serious threat.”
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According to Toronto research agency Investor Economics, the richest 3.8 per cent of Canadian households controlled 66.6 per cent of all financial wealth (not counting real estate) by 2009, up from 60.6 per cent in 2005
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economists say the benefits to the rich from these tax breaks will far outweigh anything seen by other members of society.
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single parents, who account for one in five families with young children and have the highest rate of poverty in this country.
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“The families that will most benefit from Harper’s income-splitting promise will be those who need the least help,” says Armine Yalnizyan, an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The higher the income, the bigger the tax break.”
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