The Reform-Conservatives, the NDP and the Bloc have done what they said they’d never do – they have formed a league of hypocrites – leaving the government clinging to power with the help of those they call “separatists and socialists.” The Ways and Means motion before the House of Commons today is a matter of confidence in Stephen Harper’s Reform-Conservative Government – and since it has been supported by the Bloc and NDP, this league of hypocrites is showing confidence in the Reform-Conservative record.
Liberals are voting against this government and its record for:
1) A record deficit that was revised from surplus, to $34 billion, to $50 billion, to $56 billion in less than a year
2) Failing to plan for the H1N1 flu by delaying the order of the flu vaccine and sending body bags to remote communities instead
3) Harper’s broken promise not to raise taxes with a $13 billion EI payroll tax grab
4) Denying that the country was in a recession and failing to plan for it, and being forced by parliament to put economic stimulus forward only after causing a constitutional crisis
5) A self-serving and politicized infrastructure stimulus program that has delayed projects so much that only 12% of the projects announced are in construction and creating jobs, not 80% as claimed by the government
6) Harper’s broken promise not to appoint Senators by appointing more Senators in a single year than any Prime Minister in Canadian history
7) Presiding over the loss of nearly a half million high quality fulltime jobs since October, with no plan to replace them with the next generation of jobs
8) Causing a global cancer testing crisis by failing to plan for the shut-down of the medical-isotope producing Chalk River nuclear reactor
9) Harper calling women, minorities, the disabled, and gays and lesbians “left-wing fringe groups” and our independent judiciary “left-wing ideologues”
10) Leaving Canada with the worst environmental record in the G8.
