Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?
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By James Laxer | December 17, 2008
Today, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is meeting with provincial
ministers of finance in Saskatoon.
Why is this man still at the helm of financial policy making in
Ottawa?
This is the finance minister who earlier this year said publicly that
he could see little reason why companies would choose to invest in
Ontario. His cure for everything, including the massive problems of
the auto industry, has been corporate tax cuts. His beef with Queen's
Park was that the Ontario government wasn't slashing corporate taxes
the way Flaherty thought they should.
Just under two months ago, on October 23, here is Jim Flaherty
speaking in Calgary:
"Our economic fundamentals are the strongest in the G7. I'm proud to
serve as the Finance Minister and travel abroad and meet with my G7
colleagues. I was speaking with one of them this morning on the phone
in Europe. Our economic fundamentals are the envy of the G7. We run
balanced budgets here.....As I say, other nations are envious of our
situation."
Here is how Flaherty concluded his speech:
"Let me conclude by repeating that our economy has solid economic
fundamentals, and Canadians can take some pride in that. I can assure
you that our budget will remain balanced. We do have the strongest
economic fundamentals in the G7. I can also assure you that our
spending will be controlled."
"Let me end with three good reasons to be optimistic about Canada and
our economy. Our economy is strong. Our government is focused with
strong leadership by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And our country is
united. My friends, we have a brilliant future together and I thank
you for the invitation to be with you today."
Remember, this speech was delivered after the election---Flaherty was
not trolling for votes. This self-centred, smug, bone-headed view of
things is what the man actually thought a few weeks ago. He likely
still thinks this heap of bromides makes sense.
Even John McCain and Sarah Palin weren't saying things as dumb as this
about the economy in late October.
Then came Flaherty's Economic Statement on November 27, a document
that has been amply analysed for its economics and its politics as
dumber than a bag full of hammers (an expression beloved in the
Maritimes).
Any competent government on earth by now would have fired a finance
minister with a record as dismal as that of Jim Flaherty. No one
trusts him. When he tells the media, as he did today, that he wants to
work "collaboratively" with provincial finance ministers, it doesn't
pass the giggle test.
Nothing more clearly reveals the ingrained stubborness of the Harper
government than the fact that it has not turfed out this incompetent
minister.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff ought to pay careful attention to
this. He has to decide by late January whether to vote confidence in
the Harper government. That vote may come on the new Speech from the
Throne or on the Budget. Before choosing to throw in his lot with the
"Harper Team," he ought to ponder what it means that next to the prime
minister, Jim Flaherty has been kept on as the number two man on that
team.
horo...@instruction.com
> Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?
Cuz he and Harper are doing the work for the Kikes so well. I love
how the Big Jewry banking scams are ruining you Kikesuckers! Maybe
some time on the streets will fully revise your worldview. Ohh and I
really hope the 'white priviledge' prick auld bob suffers and is
ruined, I don't care if he is an old coot, he needs a lesson. If not
justice, punishment.
L.G.R.
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> Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?
Parce qu'il est le plus intelligent de ses députés. J'ai pas dis compétent.
L.G.R.