PM Harper's Hobson Choice
Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail | January 28, 2009
Last seen clutching on to power by the skin of his teeth in the Fall, Canadian PM Harper has come back with a massive $2.5m bail-out plan. ++ “Can there be any greater act of capitulation for a former head of the anti-government National Citizens' Coalition than actually increasing the size of government?” ++ This new budget is entirely void of ideology and marks a complete U-turn from the Tories’ pre-crisis policies. ++ Harper has caved most spectacularly to spending pressures in his desperation to hold on to power.
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