With new platform, Liberals chart course back to Trudeauville
Whether he succeeds depends on whether you believe that Canada should return to its Trudeauesque past of increased social spending paid for by higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy, or continue the Conservative emphasis on keeping taxes low while balancing the books.
The choice couldn’t be simpler, or more stark.
The Liberal platform seeks to restore and expand the social safety net by investing more than $5.5-billion annually in education, child care, home care, the environment and other priorities, to be paid for by hiking corporate taxes and taxing a portion of income from wealthy Canadians who purchase stock options at below market value.
In an important revelation, the Liberals now intend not only to scrap the F-35 fighter program, but to defer replacing the aging fleet of CF-18s until “it is necessary.”
And while the Liberals promise to sharply reduce the federal deficit, they have no immediate plans to eliminate it.
This represents the antithesis of Conservative priorities of balancing the books and continuing to lower business taxes while preserving military procurement as a core spending priority.
With new platform, Liberals chart course back to Trudeauville - The Globe and Mail
Well, whatever they want to call themselves. If they keep on their promise of scrapping those jets, I am definitely on board.
Whether he succeeds depends on whether you believe that Canada should return to its Trudeauesque past of increased social spending paid for by higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy, or continue the Conservative emphasis on keeping taxes low while balancing the books.
The choice couldn’t be simpler, or more stark.
The Liberal platform seeks to restore and expand the social safety net by investing more than $5.5-billion annually in education, child care, home care, the environment and other priorities, to be paid for by hiking corporate taxes and taxing a portion of income from wealthy Canadians who purchase stock options at below market value.
In an important revelation, the Liberals now intend not only to scrap the F-35 fighter program, but to defer replacing the aging fleet of CF-18s until “it is necessary.”
And while the Liberals promise to sharply reduce the federal deficit, they have no immediate plans to eliminate it.
This represents the antithesis of Conservative priorities of balancing the books and continuing to lower business taxes while preserving military procurement as a core spending priority.
With new platform, Liberals chart course back to Trudeauville - The Globe and Mail
Well, whatever they want to call themselves. If they keep on their promise of scrapping those jets, I am definitely on board.