FEDERAL CONSERVATIVES ARE PUSHING AUSTERITY AT THE WRONG TIME

January 9, 2014 the Waterloo Region Record published this article by Thomas Walkom titled "Conservatives drop economy to focus on politics". Mr. Walkom's thesis is that the Harper government are solely focused on cost cutting and austerity in order to appear as solid fiscal managers for the upcoming 2015 election. secondly by cutting the deficit they can also turn around and give tax cuts as an incentive for folks to vote Conservative in 2015. For those who watched the CBC's Fifth Estate last Friday night; it's pretty obvious which departmernts are their target. The CBC TV show was titled "The Silence of the Labs" and indicates the Conservatives all out war on science and on science based decision making.

The world economy is in dire straights and even the U.S. economy is sputtering again. The federal government are exacerbating Canada's unemployment problems with their fiscal cutbacks at exactly the worst time. In 2009 they did spend billions to help kick start the economy and it helped significantly. Quoting Thomas Walkom under the current world economic order "...fixating on deficits is madness".