XPost: can.politics, can.general, soc.culture.canada   
   From: {~_~}@nyet.ca   
      
   >> On 3/18/2014 4:17 PM, John wrote:   
   >>> This we knew all along - we are getting screwed by harper and his   
   >>> cronies.   
   >>> Bend over for the big shaft! I'd get flagged by all the computer   
   >>> surveilance   
   >>> if I said what I really thought about harpers g*st*p*   
      
   > "{~_~}" <{~_~}@nyet.ca> wrote in message   
   >> Don't be afraid to speak up against Harper's regime.  There's a whole lot   
   >> more of us than there is them.   
   >> And unless you're a foreigner under a working permit, you will still have   
   >> a vote in the next election.   
      
      
   On 3/19/2014 2:22 PM, John wrote:   
   > All I can say is that I didn't vote for him, and no one I know will admit to   
   > voting for him it they did. I think Laherty knew that it is nearing the end   
   > for Harper and he (Laherty) doesn't want to get caught up in the biggest   
   > scandal in Canadian history - orders of magnitude bigger than this senate   
   > kafuffle.   
      
   I'm guessing something else happened that pushed Flaherty to quit:   
   He had decided that 'income splitting' was not a good thing to introduce   
   as part of the last Budget.   
   He had decided that it would be costing the Canadian economy over $5   
   Billion a year in lost revenue and he would have had a helluva time   
   bringing in a 'balanced budget' in time for the next federal election.   
      
   Harper saw it differently:  He saw it as the breaking of a promise that   
   HE had made prior to achieving a majority government and he likely got a   
   whole lot of emails and pressure from the well-heeled who wanted a break   
   from taxes - just like the corporations.   
      
   Harper would have fought with Flaherty over this.  Flaherty: concern for   
   economy and balanced budget.  Harper: concern about flak over his broken   
   promise - and flak from the higher-income brackets.  By muscling   
   Flaherty and effectively forcing him to quit, Harper can now get his   
   flunky Joe Oliver to reintroduce the 'income splitting' promise as   
   legislation -- damn the torpedos!  If the Harper gang is NOT re-elected,   
   it would be a millstone for the incoming government to carry.  $5   
   Billion a year is no joke as a loss.  And especially when you consider   
   which layer of wage earners would be benefiting.   
      
   Watch for it:  income-splitting from the idiot Joe Oliver.   
      
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