The Harper Conservatives want to cut taxes on corporations from 28 percent to 25 per cent. The reason they give is that businesses would be able to plow more money into their businesses and so create more jobs. But studies show that the rate of investment in machinery and equipment has declined in lockstep with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Liberals’
SHOULD CORPORATE TAX RATES BE CUT?
April 6, 2011WOULD A COALITION WORK?
March 27, 2011For those Canadian voters who want to defeat Harper (and their numbers are legion) there is another way to go. Here is the situation: The election on May 2 brings back yet another minority conservative government – say 145 seats 10 short of a majority. The House assembles and Harper is presently defeated on a [...]
DOES IGNATIEFF HAVE A CHANCE?
March 26, 2011As I see it those Canadians who want to get rid of Harper (and they are legion) have only one choice: vote Liberal. It will do them no good to vote Bloc which only runs candidates in Quebec; it will do them no good to vote NDP which will get only about 16 per cent [...]
SHOULD HARPER GET HIS MAJORITY?
March 25, 2011Early this afternoon the Harper government will be defeated on a vote in the House of Commons. Then, probably tomorrow morning, Harper will visit the Governor-General. By Sunday morning the leaders’ planes will be in the air heading for the hustings. In a poll published this morning it would seem that it’s Harper’s election to [...]
