A few leadership notes covering the gap between Sunday's informal debate and tonight's version in Saskatoon...
- Niki Ashton unveiled her justice platform, proposing a "judicare" program to ensure greater access to the legal system as well as soft drug decriminalization.
- Nathan Cullen took questions from Aaron Wherry, featuring his view that energy is the "elephant in the room" which isn't getting as much attention as he'd like in the leadership campaign.
- Paul Dewar earned a report from Tim Naumetz on his party-building plan, as well as a story from the Star.
- Thomas Mulcair strengthened his standing in Atlantic Canada with endorsements from multiple Nova Scotia MLAs, including Finance Minister Graham Steele.
- Peggy Nash talked to David Akin about the leadership campaign so far, including the fund-raising numbers released last week.
- Romeo Saganash appeared on CBC's C'est la Vie,
- Finally on the commentary side, Scott Stinson wasted plenty of space concern trolling over the fact that NDP leadership candidates haven't piled up money they wouldn't be allowed to spend before raising the slightly more relevant question of whether donor numbers might be an issue. And Ian followed up on some of the problems with Nathan Cullen's electoral cooperation plan.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
- For those with a few months to kill between now and next March, now may be the time to direct a browser tab toward Alice's NDP leadership site and start hitting "refresh".
- The Conference Board of Canada is once again warning about rising inequality, this time pointing out that income disparity is rising even faster in Canada than in the United States. Somewhere, Jim Flaherty is high-fiving Stephen Harper.
- Which is part of the reason why there's a need for a true party of labour - which Duncan Cameron rightly identifies as the NDP's niche.
- Finally, Nova Scotia Finance Minister Graham Steele concisely describes the Fraser Institute's economic analysis. And Jim Stanford and Erin Weir find similar levels of credibility from Ontario's PCs and Libs, respectively.
- For those with a few months to kill between now and next March, now may be the time to direct a browser tab toward Alice's NDP leadership site and start hitting "refresh".
- The Conference Board of Canada is once again warning about rising inequality, this time pointing out that income disparity is rising even faster in Canada than in the United States. Somewhere, Jim Flaherty is high-fiving Stephen Harper.
- Which is part of the reason why there's a need for a true party of labour - which Duncan Cameron rightly identifies as the NDP's niche.
- Finally, Nova Scotia Finance Minister Graham Steele concisely describes the Fraser Institute's economic analysis. And Jim Stanford and Erin Weir find similar levels of credibility from Ontario's PCs and Libs, respectively.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
A brief response
So the main response to the a Nova Scotia NDP budget which necessarily changes the provincial financial picture from the one Rodney MacDonald claimed to the one Darrell Dexter actually found seems to be "if you were really against the HST, you wouldn't run to govern a province where we imposed it!!!1!eleven!"
Needless to say, I don't see the spin as deserving of much rebuttal. But suffice it to say that there's a huge difference between making an unnecessary choice to change a provincial tax structure to relieve corporations of the obligation to pay consumption taxes while increasing the burden on citizens, and making needed changes to increase revenue in the near term when the machinery to enforce a broader sales tax has been trashed over a decade ago. And indeed that's in part exactly why provincial governments shouldn't be secretive and dishonest about the consequences of eliminating that capacity in the first place.
(Edit: fixed wording.)
Needless to say, I don't see the spin as deserving of much rebuttal. But suffice it to say that there's a huge difference between making an unnecessary choice to change a provincial tax structure to relieve corporations of the obligation to pay consumption taxes while increasing the burden on citizens, and making needed changes to increase revenue in the near term when the machinery to enforce a broader sales tax has been trashed over a decade ago. And indeed that's in part exactly why provincial governments shouldn't be secretive and dishonest about the consequences of eliminating that capacity in the first place.
(Edit: fixed wording.)
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