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A picture (and caption) are worth a 1000 words

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 7, 2010, at 12:04 pm |

I couldn’t help but laugh at the picture and caption the Toronto Star is using of Jim Flaherty coming out of an igloo up in Iqaluit where the G7 Finance Ministers are meeting.

The caption reads:

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty exits an igloo in Iqaluit on Feb. 6, 2010, moments after destroying the [...]

Today's edition of silly Conservative messaging on prorogue.

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 11, 2010, at 2:53 pm |

The first comes from Jim Flaherty, who completely contradicts Prime Minister Harper’s claims on prorogue being necessary to “recalibrate” the government’s economic priorities:

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says shutting down Parliament doesn’t affect his budget consultations – they would be happening whether Parliament was in session or not. But that’s not what his boss, [...]

This is your speech to convince the Canadian public the nation's finances are in good hands?

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 10, 2009, at 4:58 pm |

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty decided to hold a press conference today, which initially led to all sorts of speculation what it might be – perhaps a crafty move to try and pressure opposition parties not to vote the Conservative Government down?

If that was the goal, I’m not sure this speech is going [...]

The Parliamentary Budget Office contradicts the Conservatives (yet again)…

Posted by Scott Tribe on July 6, 2009, at 8:59 pm |

…this time over the issue of whether our deficit we’ve acquired is a temporary thing that will disappear once good economic times come back (the Conservative government/ Jim Flaherty/ Stephen Harper’s view) or whether this is a “structural” permanent deficit that will have to be dealt with. The independent Parliamentary Budget Office led by [...]

Jim Flaherty doesn’t take defeat well..

Posted by Scott Tribe on June 29, 2009, at 9:59 am |

A funny story in the Star today (if true) about Jim Flaherty’s reaction to his wife Christine Elliott placing 3rd in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race, won by Tim Hudak:

While Elliott coped well with defeat, her husband, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, appeared bitter during the crowded celebration at a downtown pub, [...]

Remember, this is a “mild” recession, according to Finance minister Flaherty.

Posted by Scott Tribe on April 9, 2009, at 10:14 am |

What would a bad recession look like to him, I wonder? Some more terrible numbers out today:

Canada is shedding jobs at a rate not seen since the deep recession of the early 1980s, as March saw another 61,300 workers join the ballooning ranks of the unemployed. The loss brought Canada’s official unemployment rate [...]

As predicted, Jim Flaherty writes Gritgirl’s newest video.

Posted by Scott Tribe on April 6, 2009, at 11:33 pm |

Our sometimes furious Finance minister couldn’t have handed Gritgirl better material on a silver platter if he’d tried, as I predicted a couple of blogposts ago:

Love the music!

Who do you believe: Jim Flaherty, or the TD Bank?

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 16, 2009, at 10:08 am |

There’s a wee bit of a discrepancy between Flaherty’s forecast and the TD Bank’s:

The worsening recession will drive Ottawa $18-billion deeper into deficit over the next two years, a leading economist is predicting – an increase beyond existing government forecasts that appears set to push annual budget shortfalls into record territory. The Toronto-Dominion [...]

Shorter Jim Flaherty:

Posted by Scott Tribe on May 12, 2008, at 11:34 am |

Don’t worry, be happy.

Oh, and by the way, it’s the media’s fault for Canadians thinking we’re going into an economic decline:

“There is a steady drumbeat of negative media coverage on the state of the U.S. economy,” he told a business audience this morning. “Sometimes I think this spills over into Canadian readership [...]

Another day, another Cons scandal.

Posted by Scott Tribe on April 23, 2008, at 12:11 pm |

Maybe the Cons. are trying to do so many scandals at once, they’ll hope Canadians throw up their hands and not care about what they’re doing anymore, or lose track of them, or something.

Here’s the latest one:

The federal ethics watchdog is investigating a sole-source contract Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s office awarded to [...]

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A picture (and caption) are worth a 1000 words

Today's edition of silly Conservative messaging on prorogue.

This is your speech to convince the Canadian public the nation's finances are in good hands?

The Parliamentary Budget Office contradicts the Conservatives (yet again)…

Jim Flaherty doesn’t take defeat well..

Remember, this is a “mild” recession, according to Finance minister Flaherty.

As predicted, Jim Flaherty writes Gritgirl’s newest video.

Who do you believe: Jim Flaherty, or the TD Bank?

Shorter Jim Flaherty:

Another day, another Cons scandal.

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