VIDEO: Happy Earth Day! Watch Joe Oliver fib to Peter Mansbridge about greenhouse gas emissions!

Published April 22, 2015

Finance Minister Joe Oliver is the government’s numbers guy, but they don’t add up on climate change. After tabling a 518-page budget on Tuesday that failed to mention “climate change” even once, CBC’s Peter Mansbridge asked Oliver about the omission. He dodged the question by citing the government’s new Public Transit Fund as a way of helping achieve “our reduction […]

7 Times Joe Oliver’s Budget Speech Departs from Reality

Published April 21, 2015

Hyperbole alert! Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivered his budget on Tuesday. Here’s seven problems with what Oliver had to say about the state of Canada’s fiscal affairs: 1. But is the world an ocean of chaos? And is Canada an island of stability? Joe Oliver says: “Around the world, many nations — including some of […]

Wealthy to get monopoly of tax cuts in Joe Oliver’s federal budget

Published April 20, 2015

Collect tax break as you pass go… as long as you’re wealthy? If Finance Minister Joe Oliver designed a Monopoly board, most Canadians wouldn’t be able to get ahead. (But there might be a select few looking to draw a Get Out of Jail Free card.) The Conservatives talk a good game about defending “working class […]

7 Reasons Why the Conservatives are More Disappointing than the Toronto Maple Leafs

Published April 15, 2015

Is it time to axe the coach? Team Canada isn’t winning like it used to. On every stat across the board, Canada is down — the Bank of Canada just pegged economic growth at zero per cent and said the labour market hasn’t improved in three years, full-time jobs are disappearing fast and the quality of the jobs that […]

How the Conservatives imagine Canada’s economy is completely at odds with reality

Published April 9, 2015

Who will sit Finance Minister Joe Oliver down and break the bad news about the economy? Despite Oliver’s recent claims that the Canadian economy is “the envy of the world” or that the OECD predicts “Canada will be among the G7 economies with the strongest growth in the coming years,” it now turns out the Canadian […]

This might be the stupidest bill Conservatives will table this session

Published April 8, 2015

“Foolish.” “Thoroughly empty.” “Meaningless.” Those are just some of the adjectives used by experts to describe Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s new balanced budget legislation announced Wednesday at Toronto’s Economic Club. This is supposed to commit the federal government to balanced budgets except under “extraordinary circumstances” — like war or natural disaster. Except that it doesn’t. Even […]

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