WINNIPEG — Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, there were arguably two major policy distinctions between the Liberals and the Conservatives. On climate change policy, you had a credible Liberal market-based plan to reduce emissions , and you had a Conservative plan to ditch the Liberal plan and replace it with a far less credible plan. For climate change voters, the choice between the two couldn’t have been clearer.
But Friday’s platform launch officially put austerity, or what passes for austerity, on the agenda as well. The Liberals have been warning of savage cuts under a Conservative government since day one, of course — campaigning as much against Ontario Premier Doug Ford as against Andrew Scheer. Now it’s in black and white: The Conservatives project a return to balanced budgets in five years, with the single biggest chunk of the savings coming from delayed infrastructure spending.
Infrastructure, though, is a risky target. The Conservatives insist they’re committed to all the projects the Liberals were; they’re just spreading the spending over 15 years instead of 12. The result is $18 billion in savings over five years, but they insist it’s not all real money, since the Liberals have spent considerably less on infrastructure than they budgeted.
It’s far more basic things, too, like all those First Nations boil-water advisories the Liberals promised to end — and for that matter, the hundreds of hydro towers destroyed by an early winter storm in Manitoba over the weekend. Dozens of evacuees were awaiting rehousing in the lobby of the downtown Winnipeg hotel where Scheer gave his Monday press conference. Some felt it a bit gauche he was campaigning amidst a state of emergency.
Are you kidding? More like drastic cuts on the backs of working canadian!
Looks like Scheer's actual work experience came in handy for once. elxn43
What an awful picture lol
Poor old lady, we know how you feel, here comes Scheer to f things up.
'Dozens of evacuees were awaiting rehousing in the lobby of the downtown Winnipeg hotel where Scheer gave his Monday press conference. Some felt it a bit gauche he was campaigning amidst a state of emergency'. I think you can replace 'some' with 'many'! elxn43,
Austerity for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Ask the disabled and elderly starving in Britain how well that's working for them.
Are there any true conservatives left in Canada? Oh yeah, the one you passed over for the leadership when you chose Trudeau lite
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