Canada’s economy is weak and slowing, well below the 2.5-per-cent growth rate the Bank of Canada says we need. Business investment is flat. Our key manufacturing and construction sectors are anemic. So are exports. Some 1.3 million people are out of work. Households are heavy with debt. And what has Prime Minister Stephen Harper put in the window for struggling Canadians in the throne speech he hopes will be a springboard to yet another Tory victory in 2015? That would be a few pocketbook issues such as pick-and-pay cable TV, lower cellphone costs, an end to hidden credit fees, and other small-bore initiatives. Plus the gimmicky promise of balanced federal budgets going forward, complete with an asterisk: conditions permitting. If this is Harper’s idea of Seizing Canada’s Moment, as the Conservatives ads trumpet, the party is reaching out with an exceedingly weak grip to grasp the future. Its absence of vision is matched only by its lack of ambition.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:37:22 +0000
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