Just this week I devoted a good swath of my editorial column to demonstrating how the conservative right has successfully managed to move Canada’s political spectrum’s center way over to the right, on fiscal matters, even if not yet on social matters.
When BC’s premier Gordon Campbell (himself a liberal who was convinced early on by the conservative idea that cutting taxes works) cut taxes across the board a few years ago which helped start a wave of prosperity across BC that we’re now starting to enjoy, the fringe left-wing lunatic BC NDP leader Carole James threw a hissy fit and led a chorus of liberal-left hissy-fittiness, decrying the tax cuts as voodoo Reaganomics and as oh I don’t know, horribly un-Cuban.
Now, she’s DEMANDING tax cuts. And she demands it without even a hint of humility or shear embarrassment. Once again we prove—no, the idiotologists prove it themselves—that we’re right, they’re wrong, and the liberal-left has no business leading anything; and rather that they’re excellent at following conservatives’ lead.
VICTORIA (CP) – B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen says Premier Gordon Campbell wants to get personally involved in talks to help the province’s struggling film industry.
He said the premier will meet officials of the industry next week. The move comes as some companies threaten to move production to Ontario to take advantage of lower taxes. Hansen revealed Campbell’s plan as he slammed an NDP demand that the province give the movie industry tax breaks amounting to about $30 million.
Hansen called it an “amazing flip flop” by NDP leader Carole James, who he said has argued until now that tax cuts don’t work.
He said now James is suggesting tax cuts for a specific industry instead of for general job creation.
“This is an amazing flipflop by James,” Hanson said. “We have heard months of the NDP saying tax cuts don’t work.” […]
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