The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

As I said friday, "there is absolutely no conceivable reason now why the Harper conservatives can't offer up broad-based personal and corporate tax relief for Canadians." It would seem that the only thing Minister Flaherty is mulling over, at the moment, is which ones to cut and by how much.

Back at the farm, I see Shawn Graham's boys are going on [another] useless and expensive trip on the taxpayers dime. This time Greg Byrne and BNB bureaucrats will be touting the strength of an IT job sector that clearly doesn't even exist. Thank goodness I'm not the only one that is skeptical about this whole theoretical jobs* approach by BNB.

On the bright side, at least next march's federal tax cuts will make up for the only policy initiative that this "all talk" NB Liberals regime has implemented, that being tax hikes. Oh wait, I forgot the millions of corporate welfare dumped into the textile industry. Gee, I wonder how that is working out for them.

Today really is the story of the good, the bad and the ugly policy initiatives. Unfortunately, for us, the ugly ones always seem to be coming out of Fredericton these days.

* phrase coined by David Campbell