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Lying as an election tactic: Liberals desperately make up stories to obfuscate

Shades of campaign ‘04.  Using dishonesty; trying to fool Canadians into voting for the Liberal Party; using scare tactics and invoking words like “hidden agenda” are seen by Liberals as credible even now, even after they’ve been outed as corrupt and scandal-ridden and are under several criminal and other investigations for their abject dishonesty. 

It’s almost embarrassing to watch the Liberals squirm.  Almost.

The Liberals are now claiming that the Conservatives’ prudent fiscal plans will result in a deficit over time.  This from the geniuses who have a record of not being able to get even remotely close to predicting their own year-end results. 

The Liberals smugly carry on like this without ever doubting that they’re successfully fooling YOU, Canadian. 

The Globe and Mail, which must have been hopeful that this would have traction, had to admit in their story today that the Conference Board of Canada, a body upon which all Canadian governments rely for advice and council relating to finances and economic matters, endorsed the Conservative plans fully—in fact saying largely the opposite of what the Liberals are claiming to nobody’s surprise except the Liberals who can’t even remotely count or be trusted in any way, shape, or form.

[…] The Liberal party, which is trailing in public opinion polls, released a paper today that costs out the Conservative plan and determines that it would create a shortfall of at least $12.4-billion over five years.

Fighting to establish their credulity, the Conservatives released a letter from the Conference Board of Canada saying that the party’s economic platform “is affordable” through the 2010 fiscal year and even allows for a $15.7-billion cushion.

The letter was written last month by Paul Darby, the deputy chief economist for the Conference Board, who is one of the economists frequently consulted on economic forecasting questions by the federal government.

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And in another story, this one on CTV.ca which (owned by the same Bell Globemedia):

[…] Shortly after the Liberal statement was released Sunday, the Conservatives released a letter of their own from the Conference Board of Canada.

The statement from the Tories contends the party platform is fully affordable in each year from 2005 through to 2011.

“In summary,” Paul Darby, Deputy Chief Economist of the CBoC is quoted as saying, “we found that the Conservative Party’s economic platform is affordable in each fiscal year from 2005-2006 through 2010-2011. In each year there is enough fiscal room to pay down at least $3 billion a year in debt, as in the (government’s) fiscal plan.”

The Conference Board, which was given access to the entire Tory platform to conduct its analysis, also found that there is substantial surplus in the Conservative fiscal plan.

“Over the five-year forecast horizon to 2010-2011, the CBoC economic and fiscal outlook suggests that there remains $15.7 billion in unallocated fiscal room, over and above the annual debt payment, which provides further cushion to ensure that deficits do not occur due to adverse economic effects,” Darby said.

Conservative national campaign co-chair John Reynolds, who has decided not to seek re-election, called the Liberal claims into question.

“Do you really believe the public will listen to the Liberals when they talk about what a party’s budgets are going to do when they couldn’t tell their own? They can never tell the surpluses,” Reynolds said, appearing on CTV’s Question Period.

On the state-run CBC.ca Peoples’ Web Site division of the liberal-left, they spoke of the Liberals’ contention too, but they forgot to mention anything about that annoying Conference Board of Canada paper.

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