Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made a couple of announcements.
1) We have a budget surplus of over 13 billion dollars from last year.
2) We are slashing more federal funding of Liberal-championed (and NDP-supported) programs like:
– $50-million: Elimination of unused funding for Northwest Territories devolution
– $4-million: End to medical-marijuana science funding
– $78.8-million: End to program that gave GST rebates to tourists
– $11.7-million: Removal of unused funds for mountain pine beetle initiative
– $46.8-million: Smaller cabinet announced in February
– $45-million: “Efficiencies” in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
– $4.25-million: Consolidation of foreign missions
– $13.9-million: Cancellation of National Defence High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar Project
– $6.5-million: Elimination of funding for the Centre for Research and Information on Canada
– $4.6-million: Cuts to museum assistance
– $5-million: Administrative reductions to Status of Women Canada
– $6-million: Operational efficiencies at the Canada Firearms Centre
– $4.2-million: Cuts to Law Commission of Canada
– $15-million Elimination of residual funding for softwood-lumber trade litigation
– $4.6-million: Elimination of the RCMP drug-impaired-driving program’s training budget
– $5.6-million: Elimination of Court Challenges Program
I’m sure no one will miss any off these complete wastes of tax-payer money. Like all the environmental programs axed a few months ago. Onward, Harper, with whatever the hell you’re doing!
What he is doing is “bringing Canada Forward” by being “conservative” you know, from “conserve” as in “preserve”…. Or maybe not.
Maybe he’s prepping US North?
Nice logo by the way.
“Conservative” has never implied “progress” to me. You won’t find the implication in many dictionaries either.