Flaherty asks for time to consult on stimulus....why?....to avoid another panic attack on Canadians?

Flaherty asks for time to consult on stimulus? Flaherty never consulted with Canadians for a nanosecond on his income trust tax, except with those narrow self interests who had something to gain from income trusts’ demise, people like Gwyn Morgan, Dominic D’Alessandro, Paul Desmarais Jr and Michael Sabia, as reported in the Globe on November 2, 2006:

“High-profile directors and CEOs, meanwhile, had approached Mr. Flaherty personally to express their concerns: Many felt they were being pressed into trusts because of their duty to maximize shareholder value, despite their misgivings about the structure. Paul Desmarais Jr., the well-connected chairman of Power Corp. of Canada, even railed against trusts in a conversation with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a trip to Mexico, and told him he should act quickly to stop the raft of conversions, according to sources.
Amid this escalating tension, Mr. Sabia's phone call became a flashpoint, prompting the federal government to accelerate its crackdown on the sector”


Flaherty asks for time to consult on stimulus
KEVIN CARMICHAEL
Globe and Mail
December 12, 2008 at 8:52 PM EST

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is asking for a little breathing room to come up with an economic stimulus package. Canada's economy retains enough life to allow for some “thoughtful consideration” of how to proceed, said Mr. Flaherty, rejecting critics who say he is taking too long to develop an economic stimulus plan. As governments in Europe and Japan pledged upwards of $370-billion (U.S.) to fight a global recession, Mr. Flaherty told a business audience in Saint John Friday that “panicking” risked making the weakest economic growth in almost two decades even worse. “We are living in extraordinary times,” Mr. Flaherty said. “We also know that panicking and making the wrong choices would be devastating for the Canadian economy and that responding to this type of global economic turbulence requires steadiness and stability and consultation.”

Well Jim that's exactly what you did back on October 31, 2006 with you destructive income trust tax....YOU PANICKED and made the wrong choice that was devastating for the Canadian economy unleashing a rash of takeovers of devalued trusts and causing Canadians to lose $35 billion of their life savings and an essential means to provide income during retirement.