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Budget a Modest One

By 250 News

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 01:17 PM

Prince George, B.C.- Federal Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty has delivered his budget which seems to be very much a status quo spending plan.
 
The budget brings back the retro-fit plan, which will save Canadians about $1,000 for upgrading their heating systems.
 
The budget would also see some portion of   student loans for Doctors and Nurses forgiven if they practice in rural areas. Doctors could see $40 thousand forgiven, while nurses could see $20 in loans forgiven. 
Flaherty says this budget is aimed at securing Canada’s economic recovery.
 
Other highlights include:
 
-        More support for research and education,
-        Increase in the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors by up to $840 a year
-        Caregiver tax credit for those looking after a family member
-        Tax break for small business on EI premiums, if the employer hires new staff
-        Tax break for corporations that buy new equipment
-        Promise to eliminate deficit by 2015
 
Liberal Leader Micheal Ignatieff says the Government is spending 1000 times more on jets than what it is spending on students, saying the Government is not listening to what Canadian families want. Ignatieff won’t say if this budget will trigger a non confidence motion that might topple the Harper team, he says he has a caucus meeting tomorrow and a decision will be announced later tomorrow.
 
The New Democrats had been suggesting they won’t push for an election on this budget. Leader Jack Layton has yet to indicate if the budget meets the NDP’s wish list.
 
The Bloc Quebecois  says it has not yet decided if it will support the budget.
 
Financial analysts  say  the budget is a modest one, and is not likely to  have any  real impact on the markets.

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Comment Posted by: bozo the clown on March 22 2011 2:02 PM
huh?
Comment Posted by: lmorge on March 22 2011 2:13 PM
Tax relief for doctor's student loans if they work in rural areas: Crap! why should they be forgiven loans? Are they not induced by bonuses to work in rural areas? Another conservative rip off of our tax money.
Comment Posted by: He spoke on March 22 2011 3:37 PM
Seems like a $20, relief for nurses is hardly worth the effort of filling out the forms.
Comment Posted by: He spoke on March 22 2011 3:42 PM
I am sure glad that Ignaiteff is the Liberal Leader. He can not win. Layton, can drum as loud as he wants and he can promise the country anything he wants, because he knows he does not ever have to deliver. The Bloc, does not care about anything else but themselves anyway.

So if the Bloc can not field a candidate in any riding outside their own province, than should it be representing Canadians in Ottawa. They are a selfish little kid, that is holding the rest of the family for ransom. I say, whip the kid into shape, or send it out for adoption.
Comment Posted by: gus on March 22 2011 5:04 PM
I think I will run for the Bloc in PG. The first one to think outside the Bloc.

Vote Bloc BC!!!!!

It could be a movement. Just think, a Bloc in every province.
Comment Posted by: gus on March 22 2011 5:09 PM
The more I think of it, the more I like it. A Bloc saparationist party in each province and territory. All pulled together by the Bloc.

As the Bloc wins in each province, they can separate from Canada one by one ..... and rejoin "the Bloc" as a country. :-)

Just think, with Canada gone, no more dept. And with the provinces gone, no more debt.
Comment Posted by: Palopu on March 22 2011 6:04 PM
Gus. You should write a letter to Duceppe and see if he will sign your nomination papers to run as a Bloc candidate in a PG Riding. At the very least he might see the humour in the request.
Comment Posted by: univ on March 22 2011 7:40 PM
Bloc has done a good job representing Quebec's interesets in Ottawa. This cannot be said of BC politicians. In BC, it is not even clear what is the definition of Liberal any more and it is like a bad joke when the federal liberals support the BC provinicial liberals whose policies are closer to the federal conservatives now. It will be more strange if federal Liberals and federal NDP create a coalition.

BC Liberals are like a branch of KFC which sells McDonald Hamburgers instead of KFC; and KFC allowing them to advertise it as KFC.

BTW UNBC's budget will be discussed tomorrow and we will see a picture of its finances.