When Denise Freeman and her partner Edward Marchewka take their long-haired dachshund Winston out for his daily constitutional, the trip does double duty. The pair have made it their practice to pick up trash as they walk through their west-side neighbourhood, making every day an Earth Day.
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"This is the wrong prescription for the country," said Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP candidate David McLaren after listening to Finance Minister Joe Oliver deliver his first federal budget.
"This government has put all its economic eggs in one basket – the oil sands – and those tax revenues have dropped," said McLaren in a telephone interview. "This political budget, with its tax credits and cuts for people the Conservatives hope will vote for them, takes even more money out of the coffers so that the government can no longer do what governments need to do." As an example, McLaren says that the government has sent Canadian troops into harm's way, but money that was previously budgeted as necessary for defence spending and veterans' services was not spent on their needs.
The government announced a budget surplus of $1.4 billion, achieved, says McLaren, by taking $2 billion out of the $3 million contingency fund, and selling General Motors stock purchased during the bail out at a loss.
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Liberal candidate Kimberly Love calls the Conservatives' federal budget "deeply cynical politics". During a phone interview, Love likened it to "selling the furniture and raiding the children's piggy banks and then expecting us to believe that these people are good money managers." She expressed surprise that the Conservatives persisted with an income-splitting plan at a cost to the government of $2 billion, "even over the protests of former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty who recognized that it benefited only the wealthiest families and offered nothing to single parents or the working poor. This budget gives the most to those who need it the least."
Ottawa, ON – Today, the Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Finance, presented the 2015 budget of the Federal Government in the House of Commons. Larry Miller, MP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, welcomes a balanced budget with many measures to support Canadians...
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