Let's be perfectly honest here, it is going to be a dog fight to the end, and the trends are not positive for a Conservative win, even a minority.
The Liberals, in excellent politics have battered the Prime Minister over plagiarism, economy, and the W.
These are all stupid, trumped up non-issues. Only in Canada can you gain points by attacking the democratically elected leader of our biggest ally and trading partner.
I find this frustrating, if Stephen Harper was announcing the contents of the 2007 Fall Fiscal Update, and the contents of the March 2008 budget as his election platform he would be winning a majority.
But, Stephen Harper and the Conservative government saw this crisis coming last year. Stephen Harper and the Conservative government took action over a year ago to protect our economy, our jobs, and our way of life.
Where Stephane Dion would take 30 days to talk to experts before coming up with a plan, Stephen Harper already planned and executed on his plan.
They took action to ensure the banks were well financed, two laggard banks were told to shape up, personal income taxes were cut, the GST was cut, transfers were increased to the provinces, measures were taken to increase our productivity, massive investments in infrastructure were put in place, 385,000 people were removed from the tax rolls, billions were put against the debt to reduce our interest payments, investments for students, improvements to SRED, help for low income seniors and many more changes.
If Stephen Harper was announcing this today, he would be seen as taking action, and decisive, but since he did it months ago to help our economy weather the storm in a proactive manner, he is seen as not doing anything.
It is said the attention span of our voters is short, we should remind them. The next ad should not be a negative ad, it should be an ad that reminds voters of all the economic measures they took months ago to proactive steer our economy through this economic uncertainty.
We're better off with Harper
4 comments:
How can we be losing to Dion. It's incredible.
You're right. The CPC should just run one comercial the rest of the campaign: Harper addressing the nation saying The Opposition Parties accuse us of offering nothing new and more of the same, well, that is because, unlike them, we saw this coming over a year ago and we started the prudent economic measures long ago, including tighter rules for mortgages to combat a future housing crisis, lowering GST and income taxes etc. to keep Canadians spending. We have nothing new in our plan because we have already implemented 'our platform' over the past year and a half.
Personally I am worried that we will lose this election. That Dion will tax carbon, and I will get screwed. I am a single income family with two kids, I will get less income tax help from Dion then if my wife also worked.
The carbon tax is regressive.
Canadians are reacting to the cheering for a recession the Dippers and Libs have been doing.
They still have to decide who to trust to run the country.
Maybe this will help them:
Ezra tells Duffy that Dion voted AGAINST every banking regulation Tories brought in (I smell an attack ad), yah the ones that kept Canada out of serious trouble now.
Maybe todays report from the IMF will help them too:
Canada is expected to be the fastest growing GDP of all G7 countries, with GDP expected at 1.2% after a 2% outlook six months ago.
http://www.economicnews.ca/cepnews/wire/article/133355
h/t springer
And my favorite
Dec 2007 interview with PMSH
Toronto Star
PM sees trouble ahead for economy
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/287680
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