Wednesday

What Happened to Democracy?

Before the budget was even released yesterday Jack Layton was giving his seal of rejection to it.

"NDP Leader Jack Layton, also a Toronto MP, has said his party will oppose the budget no matter what. Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe has said his party will also oppose the budget." (Source)

I like the comment on yesterday's FM96 morning show that the Conservatives should copy the NDPs budget proposal and put it forth as their own. Layton would then be rejecting his own budget.

And we would be well served by a coalition government that includes these guys?

Let's hope that Ignatieff at least judges the budget fairly and makes the best decision for Canadians, not his party or his own power-hungry ego.

1 comment:

Patrick Ross said...

Let's face it, when you look at a lot of the things in this budget, the NDP very much are rejecting their own budget.

$2 billion for social housing.

$7 billion for infrastructure.

Billions more to help workers and for job retraining.

These are bread and butter issues for the NDP. Now they're set to vote against them.