If one were to ask the NDP campaign to write three stories it would like to see making the news together at the same time, it could hardly do better than these ones which all appeared today on National Newswatch:
NDP would boost ‘green sector' jobs...proposed $8-billion spending program which he says will create 40,000 new jobs to replace those that have been lost across Canada
Can't guarantee jobs, PM says...Harper had a blunt message for Ford workers: "We can't guarantee your job."
Study: Tories made $19.2b in pre-election announcements...Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the Conservative government has made a whopping $19.2 billion worth of pre-election spending announcements since June.
Which means that for those able to draw the link between the stories, Harper is now left to try to defend his track record of manufacturing job losses, even as the NDP puts forward its plan to turn around the decline for less than half the cost of the Cons' pre-election vote-buying spree.
Naturally, it remains to be seen whether the Cons' attempt to brand themselves as competent economic managers will be held up to the scrutiny it deserves. But if there's anything that can highlight just how laughable the Cons' claim to responsible management really is, it's that kind of connection between the Cons' wild spending and their simultaneous lack of positive results.
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