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Harpernomics.ca

Well, we have another new website for you to check out today called Harpernomics, which is a compilation of all the things Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have done while in power, which makes a mockery of their claim that only they can be good economic stewards for Canada. An example:

Harper now presides over the highest spending government in Canadian history, having increased federal government spending by 15 per cent.

$19.2 BILLION in pre-election spending between June and September 2008. A $13-billion surplus blown in just 30 months and now on the brink of deficit.

A very slick looking website with a lot of information there. Check it [...]

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“The fundamentals of our economy are strong” Sound familiar?

That’s what Harper was airing in those pre-election election ads about Canada’s economy. Did any of you think it sounded like a familiar refrain? Well it should, and Progressive Blogger affiliate A Creative Revolution points out at their site and at Youtube WHY it should sound familiar – because it’s what conservatives and their allies use as a line when the economy is going downhill:

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Conservatives own secret study supports a carbon tax.

This was first brought to my attention on Friday by a Green Blogger pointing out that the Green Party had used the Access to Information Act to reveal a secret Conservative government study that shows the economic costs of a carbon tax in Canada starting at 50$/ton are not only negligible to the economy in the first few years, but show a net positive for a carbon tax in raising Canada’s gross domestic product:

The report supports a carbon tax as an effective way to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and concludes that a $50/tonne tax on carbon would have an insignificant impact on the Canadian economy [...]

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