I hope this blows up in the oppositions face and we finally get a majority so we can get on with the business of the nation.
Opposition leaders reject federal budget
By Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 4:06 PM ET
Opposition leaders immediately rejected the Conservative government's budget Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible spring election.
Within minutes of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabling his "low-tax plan for jobs and growth" in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe and NDP Jack Layton all said the budget didn't contain enough to warrant their support.
"We find that the priorities of this government are not the priorities of ordinary Canadians," Ignatieff said. The Liberal leader, who has been demanding a cancellation of corporate tax cuts and didn't get it, cited the lack of support in the budget for affordable housing and child care as other reasons why his party will not vote in favour of the budget.
"This is a government that doesn't seem to be listening to what Canadian families are telling us," he said. "We're forced to reject this budget."
Duceppe's rejection of the budget is based on the budget's silence on his demand for a $2.2-billion deal to compensate Quebec for HST harmonization.
Opposition leaders reject federal budget
By Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 4:06 PM ET
Opposition leaders immediately rejected the Conservative government's budget Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible spring election.
Within minutes of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabling his "low-tax plan for jobs and growth" in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe and NDP Jack Layton all said the budget didn't contain enough to warrant their support.
"We find that the priorities of this government are not the priorities of ordinary Canadians," Ignatieff said. The Liberal leader, who has been demanding a cancellation of corporate tax cuts and didn't get it, cited the lack of support in the budget for affordable housing and child care as other reasons why his party will not vote in favour of the budget.
"This is a government that doesn't seem to be listening to what Canadian families are telling us," he said. "We're forced to reject this budget."
Duceppe's rejection of the budget is based on the budget's silence on his demand for a $2.2-billion deal to compensate Quebec for HST harmonization.