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Flaherty: No plans for immediate spending cuts | Canada | News ...
18 Nov 2009
They say it's time to rein in spending and lead Canada back into the black. “The fact is, the economy is beginning to turn around,” said Kevin Gaudet, federal director of the CTF. “The government continuing to spend borrowed money will ...
Winnipeg Sun - Canada - http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/canada/

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: On the federal government's ...
12 Nov 2009 by Stephen Gordon  
From what I've been hearing, it sounds as if Flaherty is going to stop increasing government spending to match inflation for a few years in an attempt to grow the way out of the deficit. Personally, I would love to see spending cuts and ...
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative - http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/ - References
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No room for new spending programs: Flaherty
20 Nov 2009
He repeated the government has no intention to raise taxes or cut transfers to individuals or other levels of government (even though those spending items account for 45% of federal spending). Analysts and Parliament's budget watchdog have repeatedly said it ... That analysis said Canada's meagre productivity growth threatened to dampen the country's potential growth -- or the economy's speed limit -- for the next decade, leading to lower household and government income. ...
Financial Post - Top Stories - http://www.financialpost.com/16994.rss?type=rss - References
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BUDGET CUTS COMING FOR CANADIAN FORCES, WARNS DALLAIRE - David ...
19 Nov 2009 by Dave Pugliese  
Last year, the Strategic Review process saw 14 federal organizations examine their spending. Savings of $586 million were determined and redirected to fund new initiatives as part of the Economic Action Plan announced in the 2009 budget, according to Treasury Board. .... Everyone who knows the history of Canada understands that Defence is the largest source of discretionary spending in the government, and is therefore one of the first targets of spending reductions. ...
David Pugliese's Defence Watch - http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/d... - References

Something interesting happened on CBC Radio this morning: spending ...
20 Nov 2009 by Travis Fast  
Update: At 10:00am the CBC went back to just replaying a clip from the interview without the editorial interjection in the end. Apparently the CBC believes that the question of the deficit is just about program cuts. Too bad for them given they are a .... As he writes: "The federal government has already signalled plans to get tough with its workers. In Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty gave notice this week that the province's public sector -- including nurses, doctor […] ...
Relentlessly Progressive Political Economy - http://rppe.wordpress.com/

Socialist Project | The Bullet
15 Nov 2009
“The federal government has already signalled plans to get tough with its workers. In Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty gave notice this week that the province's public sector – including nurses, doctors, teachers, police officers and judges ... All note that the Canadian fiscal situation is far, far better than that of the other advanced industrial countries due to the surpluses we ran from the mid 1990s courtesy of the deep spending cuts of Martin, Harris and Klein. ...
Socialist Project - What's New - http://www.socialistproject.ca/ - References
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Senate Sends Health Care Bill to Floor | MetaFilter
5 hours ago by shivohum  
Unless you're one of those people who thinks "government waste" and "government spending" are the same thing, in which case I am pointing at you and doing the Nelson Muntz laugh. ... first vote by this weekend to cut off debate on a motion to proceed, followed by 30 hours of debate on the motion to proceed itself, all before an eventual vote on the actual bill — when there is other unfinished business to deal with, including spending bills that are months behind schedule? ...
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The Progressive Economics Forum » Corporate Tax Giveaway to Uncle Sam
20 Nov 2009 by Erin Weir  
However, the federal government is in the process of slashing its corporate tax rate from 22% to 15%. Finance Canada estimates that, when fully implemented, this cut will reduce annual revenues by $14-billion. Simply maintaining today's rate ... By comparison, it estimates that each dollar of annual infrastructure spending adds a dollar to GDP this year and $1.50 next year. The case for corporate tax cuts is that they supposedly prompt businesses to invest more in Canada. ...
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Scrap the Parliamentary Budget Office
18 Nov 2009 by NP Editor  
To cut spending, the Liberal government initiated a comprehensive review of every government department using a series of “tests” including the most important one: whether or not government involvement was necessary. ...
FP Comment - http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/default.aspx - References

Alberta has a duty to resist health cuts - Connect2Edmonton
18 hours ago by andy8244  
Politics Politics involves and affects all of us, whether it's at the federal, provincial or civic level, or a combination of all three. Discuss policy issues, civic issues, social issues, financial issues, and legislation that affects ... This includes spending on dental, vision and other care not covered by the health system, areas where costs have been escalating. Going further down this path compromises the access and equity of our system. Already, in Canada, 17 per ...
Connect2Edmonton - http://www.connect2edmonton.ca/forum/

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