tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post3532434739977308654..comments2024-01-07T08:41:13.864-05:00Comments on C A I T I - O N L I N E: So why did RBC recklessly advise BCE to borrow $44 billion, if not to take it to the brink?Brent Fullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515599756822506137noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-64364502438889804342008-09-05T21:46:00.000-04:002008-09-05T21:46:00.000-04:00Could the CON HYPOCRISY be any clearer?Can you say...Could the CON HYPOCRISY be any clearer?<BR/><BR/>Can you say DEFICIT?<BR/>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Tories Keep Spending Amid $8.8-Billion Tally Of Pre-Election Largesse<BR/><BR/>The Canadian Press<BR/><BR/>Sept 5, 2008<BR/><BR/>OTTAWA — The Conservative government maintained there's nothing untoward in trumpeting projects on the eve of a federal election, even as it heralded a fresh billion-dollars' worth of taxpayer-funded largesse Friday.<BR/><BR/>"It's the business of government," said Chisholm Pothier, a spokesman for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.<BR/><BR/>With Canada's faltering economy set to be a pivotal issue in an autumn election campaign that's already underway in everything but name, one of this country's traditional pre-writ ploys is in full swing.<BR/><BR/>Half a billion dollars for Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ont., and another $140 million for Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, N.B.; $279 million into a Manitoba building fund and another $42.5 million for the province's roads; $3-million security grants tossed here and there like nickel antes - it was all in a day's work for the busy Harper cabinet.<BR/><BR/>Even before Friday's spending crescendo, the penny-pinching Canadian Taxpayers Federation had compiled a list of almost 300 Tory announcements totalling $8.8 billion since June.<BR/><BR/>The NDP says it tracked more than $6 billion in the last week alone - and provided a spreadsheet to prove it.<BR/><BR/>"As opposition, the Conservatives lampooned the Liberals for doing this kind of shameless pre-election spending," said taxpayer federation spokesman Adam Taylor.<BR/><BR/>"Now, lo and behold, the Conservatives in government are doing the exact same thing. It seems no matter who's in power, all politicians play this little pre-election game."<BR/><BR/>http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gnGWQ-pi421in_2VE1ff9ffwJjEAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com