Here is a grand SCA event going on locally...

Summer Siege

The Cadidates for SD&G.

For the riding of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry here are the current candidate in the 41st Canadian Federal Election on May 2, 2011:

Bernadette Clement our liberal hopeful. Hopefully that you're campain will get underway soon and the liberal.ca website might have your bio posted.{sigh}

Mario Leclerc, our NDP Candidate. Interesting to read his comments in the seaway valley news, but alas, no website that I can find yet. At least you have as many signs up as your con-petition. Ouch, not punny.

Wyatt Walsh will be running for the greens in our fair county. Looking forward to hearing some alternative ideas for Canada, maybe even a vision of the future that is bright?

And let's not forget Guy Lauzon, appearing by special order of her Majesty's secret Harper government. I don't suspect that anyone will notice the lack of getting things done around here, or just what the massive corporate tax cuts and resulting deficit will do to Cornwall. Hard to tell the differencebetween election website and government website since the HARPER government turned everything blue and posts pictures of HARPER all over it.

More will come as the candidates have to be nominated by April 13th!

The 2011 Conservative Budget Election

As the last post indicated, sure there were some bones thrown to seniors and others in the budget this week.

For a more in depth look at the budget take a look at Canada's 45 Minute Budget from the Centre for Policy Alternatives. They point out a few things to not like in the budget but the one I really picked up upon were the unknown poison pills. Those unspecified budgetary cuts to make up shortfalls. What do you think the cons might want to cut?

I can make guesses but do you really want to just give them a blank cheque? Assume that things will be wonderful in 6 months? I don't care which party you might support, I'm sure you want things to be spelled out.

Here is a thought, principal, and purpose. Give me some of those and stick to them and I'll vote for you!

Some perspective on Conservative Priorities #cdnpoli #bdgt2011 http://twitpic.com/4c8biw

 

 

 

The 2011 Canadian Election is going to be an interesting one. Will the crumbs thrown to people not interested enough to pay attention help the conservatives?

Will years of balance budgets, and good tax policy in the 90s ever count again, or will simple take with one hand but give back a little with the other hand win the day?

Tax and spend conservatives will tell you it is the other guys fault, but just how much more of this idiocy can we take? Maybe if the cons had a plan, a vision, a direction to the future but all they seem to want is to tear apart Canada and set us up as a corporate welfare state.Beyond dismantling everything but what they think might protect them from pissing in their pants, do they have any plan for Canada? The economy is all we hear them talking about, but really what they have done for the economy is made profits easier to get on the backs of Canadians.

At least the cons could do something radical and propose an elimination of tax on corporations and a flat tax on everything else. Of course, they won't. Stevie is too concerned about his own power, his own little world.