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Friday, December 16, 2011

Harper's Secret Taxes!

After Harper said he would like the provinces to pay half for his new (billion dollar) Prison system in which he intends to increase crime and reduce justice, Ontario and Quebec are screaming all the way to the parliament building saying NO! Harper doesn't care for his budget it's in deficit and there isn't much so far that has been announced that will make it go to surplus, but in Quebec and Ontario the primers are trying to balance the budget. something that is standing in the way is a billion dollar price tag for prisons they don't even want. If Harper get's his way our provinces will have to make deeper cuts or increase taxes to pay for the cost of the prisons that will only add more cost in the long run. So this is Harper's secret tax. Make the primers look like the bad guys increasing taxes and reducing services and Harper who doesn't care for fiscal responsibility do nothing. (probably blame the Liberals for not giving him 30 billion dollar surpluses)

I think the only fair way Harper can expect the provinces to agree to fork up the bill is if they get a say on the bill, but Harper doesn't want to. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to make a crime bill and force the provinces to pay for half of it, and the provinces don't get much influence on the matter what so ever.

Noting that it is “virtually impossible” to project actual increases, the document pegs the total cost of changes to legislation on young offenders at $717-million over a five-year period. It adds that the federal government would likely end up paying half of the price tag.
 Quebec’s Ministry of Public Security has estimated that Bill C-10 will cost the province an extra $294-million to $545-million to expand the province’s prisons and $40-million to $74-million every year to service the additional inmates.
 “Our position remains the same,” David Couturier, a spokesman for Mr. Fournier said when contacted by The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. “It’s their legislation … it’s up to them to pay the bills.”
 Ontario has also called on the federal government to cover the entire cost of the bill.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 December 2011 at 09:52

    "primers" Surely you meant premiers.

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  2. Anonymous16 December 2011 at 11:46

    He learned it from Da'master. Remember the transfer payments were scaled back by billions creating a healthcare crisis?

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  3. Alison16 December 2011 at 13:50

    Anonymous, you forget that the Liberals had to deal with the horrific deficit left by Mulroney. Of course it hurt, but once the financial situation was back on track, they instituted the 6% annual increase. The Cons have no such excuse. Having blown the surplus well before the recession, they are now introducing a worse-than-useless punishment regime which will cost us all dearly. There is no bloody way the provinces should have to pay for this folly.

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  4. vanillaman16 December 2011 at 14:02

    Alison you are 100% correct

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