Trudeau 'welcomes' ethics probe of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case

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The Cretien Liberals took over from the highest spending government ever and reversed our course.

It lasted until Harper took over.

Now we are back to growing.

Fron the halcyon days of 2012

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/rep...ssage-more-important-than-ever/article535380/

Headlines inform but don't necessarily reveal. Time reveals.

Based on headlines alone, most people would probably assume that Canada has a bigger federal government than it had 50 years ago. But we don't – not, at any rate, in relative terms. In fiscal 1962-1963, a half-century ago, the federal government spent 16.8 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, the same percentage it spent in 1920.

Yet in fiscal 2011-2012, Ottawa will spend only 14.4 per cent. By fiscal 2015-2016, it will spend only 12.9 per cent. For the most part, the headlines missed a most remarkable story: "Government shrinking fast."

When Liberal Jean Chrétien became prime minister in 1993, Ottawa was still spending 23.1 per cent of GDP. In its first 10 years, his government reduced that share to 16 per cent – back to the level it held during the politically frenzied days of prime ministers John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson.

The Chrétien government cut Ottawa's relative size by one-third, and didn't try to hide its strategic objective of deeper cuts ahead. Make no mistake: That government knew what it was doing. In 2000, in what Dalhousie University economist Lars Osberg presciently (though disapprovingly) spoke of as the government's "millennial vision," Ottawa publicly announced its formula for long-term downsizing "in the 21st century." In the future, it said, the government would limit spending growth to two benchmarks: inflation and population growth.

With firm economic management from his finance minister, Paul Martin, Mr. Chrétien finished his three terms in office with a unique accomplishment – a decade (1993-2003) in which Ottawa reduced spending, as a share of GDP, every year. (In contrast, Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau increased the size of government every year during his first eight years in office, expanding the federal state by 50 per cent, from 16 per cent of GDP to 24 per cent.)
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Stealing excess funds from UI and passing costs onto the provinces . Any layoffs and reduction in staff were temporary at best .
 
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Stealing excess funds from UI and passing costs onto the provinces . Any layoffs and reduction in staff were temporary at best .
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Cretien cut the Canadian armed forces from over 100,000 to about 60-65,000?
 
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Civil service and post office are shadows of their former selves?

They suffered deeper cuts than the military.
 
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And the "excess funds" came from the public service pension fund surplus.

such that the military and rcmp et al had their pension fund looted by the federal government

You, of course, are more concerned about the EI folks
 
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And the "excess funds" came from the public service pension fund surplus.

such that the military and rcmp et al had their pension fund looted by the federal government

You, of course, are more concerned about the EI folks
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Of course , look after those with the most needs first .
 
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Cretien cut the Canadian armed forces from over 100,000 to about 60-65,000?
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Chretien was the one and only Prime Minister who never bothered visiting DND Headquarters two blocks away in his entire time in Ottawa.

He doan like dat ting, dere.
 
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It sounds as if Meuller is leaving Trudeau scot free.
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POOR STUPID Curious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HE HAS NOT NOTICED..............................


that the basic premise of this particular discussion..............................


is DEAD WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Clearly my previous statement that Our idiot Boy welcomes the ethics probe about as much as he would enjoy a proctolagy exam from a doctor with freakishly large hands.......................................................



IS THE CORRECT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


After all, Our idiot Boy has done everything he could to CRIPPLE the probe as quickly and completely as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Our idiot Boy has displayed such hostility to the probe that he has been willing to pretty much call TWO OF HIS former star ministers - meaning Wilson- Raybould and Philpot - LIARS in desperate hope the inquiry would GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And he has forced Privy Council Clerk Wernick to make such a mealy mouthed nasty display of himself in testimony that the guy has decided to RETIRE rather than show his face in Ottawa any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And what of LIE-beral asshat Gerald Butts??????????????????????


He has fallen on his sword for Our idiot Boy and what has it gotten him?????????????????


He is on the unemployment line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Do you really think Our idiot Boy is enjoying his "exam" at this time????????????????????????
 
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I hope the liberals get re-elected under Justin Trudeau but ONLY with a very-slim-to-zero overall majority; ONLY because none of the other party leaders and/or ideologies appeal to me; and ONLY because there's no way in our system to get a non-partisan PM.

- All of course, on the assumption that he's learned a very hard lesson.
 
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spilledthebeer said:
POOR STUPID Curious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that the basic premise of this particular discussion..............................

IS THE CORRECT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He has fallen on his sword for Our idiot Boy and what has it gotten him?????????????????
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This is a leftism but maybe he likes without the music even he likes the US but maybe you are only Russian communist who still appreciated the Soviet Union despite no heyday last 30. Maybe your Russia wants to threaten the EU by a military point.
 
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I hope the liberals get re-elected under Justin Trudeau but ONLY with a very-slim-to-zero overall majority; ONLY because none of the other party leaders and/or ideologies appeal to me; and ONLY because there's no way in our system to get a non-partisan PM.
- All of course, on the assumption that he's learned a very hard lesson.
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He already knows everything.
 
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This is a leftism but maybe he likes without the music even he likes the US but maybe you are only Russian communist who still appreciated the Soviet Union despite no heyday last 30. Maybe your Russia wants to threaten the EU by a military point.
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Politic driver club moisten Callaway. Antarctic nannygoat laundering Russian Redskin minis 30.
 
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