Liberals put the party first

The following quote from Finance Minister Ralph Goodale as he submitted his budget to Parliament;

A commitment to sound financial management is never easy —and it is never over. It is not something to be done once— or just for a while —and then set aside. It requires the steady, unrelenting application of rigorous discipline and vigilance—at the macro level of balancing our government books overall, and at the day-to-day micro level in how programs and services get delivered.

The best line of course is the part about it not being something to be done once or just for a while and then set aside. Hey Ralph what happened to, "steady", "Rigorous discipline". I guess we can't blame the author though, given the weak and vacillating leader that intends to take down the whole team. John Manley made a brilliant move by getting out of town.

Over the past few years, we have given our Canadian businesses a modest but strategic tax rate advantage vis-à-vis the United States. Over that same period, the Canadian private sector generated more than 1 million new jobs.
However, recent tax reductions in the U.S. will gradually erode our margin. To maintain it, this budget proposes to reduce the statutory corporate income tax rate by 2 percentage points—from 21 per cent to 19 per cent by 2010. We also propose to end the corporate surtax, which was introduced in 1987 as a deficit reduction measure. This will help all businesses in Canada, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

We don't have all the details of the NDP re-written budget yet but Given the sentiments stated above it surely means we will fall behind the United States and loose jobs if the Finance Minister was to be believed a few short months ago. How can any Liberal face the nation and suggest they have Canada's interest at heart when they will allow the erosion of the economy to simply try to stay in power.

Ok Stephen and Gilles, you flushed them out, they blinked, vote to pass the budget and take them out on weakness and corruption. The Liberals could sure look like the damn fools they are if all parties supported the budget. Parliament is not broken, only the Liberals are desperate and willing to flip on their own members and agenda.

If the NDP wishes to support the Liberals on a separate motion that charges that the Liberals are corrupt and don't have the confidence of the house and need to resign, well good luck selling that support.