Liberal Platform

[#juan]

Carbon shift to cost only $90 million?

These are the same guys that promised the gun registry would cost $2 million in set-up fees, then be self-sustaining.

2 Billion dollars later..........that's a factor of 1000 times their claim........perhaps Dion misspoke?

Did he really mean 90 billion dollars?

I'm sorry.....you can't retain everything (child care credits, arts funding, etc....) cut taxes for business (bringing back income trusts), and cut income taxes to "offset" a new carbon tax that will increase the cost of everything, thus damaging the economy and treasury income, and make promises to increase spending by billions and billions per year more than the Conservatives.........and still balance the books.

Hocus Pocus.

First of all. The gun registry didn't cost 2 billion dollars..........It didn't even cost 1 billion. But the truth doesn't matter as long as you're bashing the Liberals........The gun owners themselves made sure it cost as much as possible:roll:.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/guncontrol/

 

[Colpy]

First of all. The gun registry didn't cost 2 billion dollars..........It didn't even cost 1 billion. But the truth doesn't matter as long as you're bashing the Liberals........The gun owners themselves made sure it cost as much as possible:roll:.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/guncontrol/

Juan....you just post a link that supports my side of the argument.....Sheila Fraser herself said she had to cut short her investigation as the government had gone through extensive efforts to hide costs........so her estimations of the cost were, in her opinion, very low.

From your own source:

Sheila Fraser blasted the federal government for exceeding its estimated budget, saying that, by the time the smoke cleared and all gun owners and their guns were registered, the program would have cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. Opposition critics were quick to point out that figure is 500 times more than the original $2-million estimate

Remember, that was by Jan. 1, 2003, almost 6 years ago.....by her own admission a low estimate.....and the costs mount.

Feb. 13, 2004
Documents obtained by Zone Libre of CBC's French news service suggest that the gun registry has cost $2 billion so far.

And years ago, I received instructions and other material about my firearms.....from the Dep't of Natural Resources, not Justice. Hidden costs.

 

[#juan]

I guess it depends on what you read:

May 16, 2006
Auditor General Sheila Fraser reports that the former Liberal government twice misinformed Parliament about tens of millions of dollars of overspending at the Canada Firearms Centre. Fraser finds that the planned computerized gun registry system is three years overdue and so far has cost $90 million, three times more than expected.

 

[Colpy]

I guess it depends on what you read:

90 million?

That is just for the nth upgrade on their computers....that's all.