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- From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
- Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.163830.24517@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:38:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alchemy.1993Jan24.163830.24517
- References: <93022.0220182893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <C1B22B.7qA@mach1.wlu.ca> <93024.0053342893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- In article <93024.0053342893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Andy <2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >
- >How is Rae responsible for the cut in transfer payments?
- >
-
- Transfer payments were not cut by the Tories...
- ...the rate of increase in transfer
- payments was cut...but at a rate of increase still greater than
- that of inflation...and the rate of increase was greater than
- the Tories increased their own program spending...i.e. the Tories
- tightened their own belts harder than they were asking the provinces
- to tighten theirs.
-
- Now, let's look at Bob Rae's provincial transfers to municipalities
- where he has offerred them a rate of increase less than inflation, and
- less than the provincial NDP has increased their own program spending...
-
- ...do you understand the meaning of the word hypocrite...because that
- is what Bob Rae is and demonstrates over and over.
-
- Bob Rae is a hypocrite on ethics policy, and intergovernment transfers,
- and he is arguing against equalization now.
-
- >Less than honest? Again, how is Rae to blame for the cut in federal transfer
- >payments? Do you deny this has a direct impact on the provincial deficit?
- >You only say the feds had no choice, you don't explain how Bob Rae is
- >responsible for the cut or how the cut isn't the cause of the deficit increase.
- >IE, you're playing a shell game. PhD or not.
-
- Municipalities in Ontario are wondering where Bob Rae's alleged
- commitment to fairness in transfer payments is...he talks one game
- with the federal government and talks the exact opposite game with
- the municipalities.
-
- Gerald
-