Ah…. Canadian Conservatism
– Fiscal used to be thy first name.
“From June 2nd to September 4th, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) tracked 293 pre-election spending announcements totaling $8.8-billion made by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. That is roughly $94-million a day or about $3.9-million every hour.”
The CTF, formerly Steve’s very good friends, have been pissed with him for some time now and have published this handy chart of spending gems from which to more accurately get your hate on. My personal fave has to be the admittedly rather smallish grant to create a festival in Shag Harbour, N.S., to commemorate a 1967 UFO sighting. According to their website, someone will be on site painting aliens on rocks.
Meanwhile, amidst all this largesse, the Attawapiskat kids in northern Ontario are expected to wait another eight years before they can have a school. Maybe they should start looking around for some UFOs.
How surprised are you?
– the only thing that changes folks is the colour of their ties.
[ h/t Creekside ]
Chelsea, Quebec is going to get $6,100,000 for a recreation centre.
My personal favourite, worthy of not only Canadian but international ridicule, is the $47,050 allocated towards the NAVAL MUSEUM OF ALBERTA SOCIETY in Calgary.
That $47,050 is money that could have paid for a significant percentage of that school for those poor kids in Attawaspikat.
A close 2nd would be the $297,000 for the AIRPORT NORDIC SKI CLUB for ski-trails upgrades. Good to know I’m subsidizing the skiing habits of rich folks (everyone knows poor folks don’t ski).
No matter who is in power, the party in power always pulls stunts like this.
Politicians are mostly alike, getting and keeping power is best done on the taxpayers dime. Like the liberals wouldn’t if they called the election?
And lets not bother about those fiscal idiots, the NDP.(opps, did I offend your party affilation?)
I will admit I am not pleased with the Cons wasting money and the shrinking surplus.
My dear Canuckguy, you quite obviously have not read very much of what I’ve written, and your question shows that you know absolutely nothing about my political philosophy.
hehe — he thinks I have a party affiliation.
SL is a party of 1 – contributions can be made in the form of a good Stout or in bandwidth.
I live not too far from Shag Harbour, in fact I drove through there last Thursday, and yes, they do love them some aliens. The so-called “incident” happened more than 40 years ago, but it’s only been in the past 6 or 7 years that the locals have really begun playing it up in a desperate attempt to attract tourists. The downturn in the fisheries can lead you to do strange things, I suppose. The provincial Tories obliged by putting up some road signs and building a roadside parking spot overlooking the bay about 5 years ago. There’s also a privately-owned “UFO Museum” (I’ve never been in so I’ve no idea what they have for exhibits).
And now the Cons have fed $2,000 more of my tax dollars into this nonsense. Mr. Harper, drop the chequebook and assume the position.