Plutocrats Unite ! The whole issue of reform of Income Trust allocations & distributions is a tempest in a teapot, and at the very least it shows that the current government - at least in its configuration as a minority - can govern in the national interest when it wants to.
As most of you now, I do not support the current CPC government because I find them insufficiently nationalist, too beholden to the United States - and too partial to the Republic of Alberta.
However, I laud them for this decision. The Dominion government must govern in the national interest. The necessary reform of Income Trust allocations and distributions is most clearly in the national interest. Good on you Mr. Harper !
posted by Aeneas the Younger @ 5:54 am
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5 Comments:
Agreed. Short term pain for long term gain. For those Canadians who prefer decisiveness over dithering from their government, Harper delivered.
Gawd, I can't believe I just said that.
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Omar:
How do you think I feel having to post a positive comment about them?
I was abolutely shocked when Flaherty made the announcement, but I really wonder whay would have happened had they a majority in the House.
At least Harper is a man of his word and a man of integrity. May he go very, very, far.
VD:
It was time to let the market be free. Maybe I'll get more traffic this way, even if I get the occasioanal fool posting to this site.
Rock On !
Aeneas:
I'm not ready to wreathe the bay leaves 'round Harper's head quite yet.
During the election, the Liberals announced their intention to tax income trusts. Seeing an opportunity to slander them as tax-and-spend lefties, the Harperoids denounced the plan, thus pandering to the "plutocrats" (as you would style them) for political gain.
Through Harper's cynical duplicity, investors had no chance to re-channel the assets they could have placed elsewhere had they been warned of what was coming. Thus, many fairly ordinary people took a bath, just because Harper couldn't resist exploiting a cheap electoral ploy and lacked the basic integrity to admit that the Liberal attitude towards income trusts was the right one.
Harper will never change his spots; no matter how many different skins he tries on, he's still the same old Reform Party hack.
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