RAW VIDEO: Jason Kenney just doesn’t get the fuss over income splitting

Published March 1, 2014

Senior Conservative minister Jason Kenney doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. On Friday, he praised family income splitting as a benefit for what he called “stable family units.” By design, the policy encourages a parent to stay at home and look after the children, so everyone who reported on Kenney’s comments noted the […]

You won’t believe what Jason Kenney said about family stability

Published February 28, 2014

Senior Conservative Minister Jason Kenney on Friday defended his party’s family income splitting promise, linking the policy that encourages women to stay at home is good for family stability. Kenney, the standard-bearer for social conservatism in Canada, made the comments at the Manning Networking Conference, a two-day gathering of the country’s conservative movement. “I was […]

Jim Flaherty vs. Stephen Harper: watch the income splitting gong show

Published February 27, 2014

This is getting really awkward. First, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says his own government needs to rethink their promise of bringing in family income splitting next year. That’s because “there are some people who benefit and lots of people who don’t in that world of income splitting.” To make his point perfectly clear, Flaherty adds: […]

Does this Tory minister actually think Canada’s cities are lying?

Published February 26, 2014

Did a senior Conservative cabinet minister just imply that Canada’s cities aren’t telling the truth about their financial situation? Employment Minister Jason Kenney took to Twitter Wednesday to give a shout-out to a report authored by a business lobby group that says municipal governments are “consistently misrepresenting how much tax money ends up in their […]

What to make of Tim Hudak’s flip-flop on “right-to-work”?

Published February 21, 2014

Did Tim Hudak just concede attacking unions is an attack on the middle class? That’s wishful thinking for an anti-labour ideologue like Hudak, but the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader renounced Friday one of his key policy planks on the eve of an expected provincial election that, if implemented, would have really hurt the middle class. In a […]

Top 5 howlers in Jim Flaherty’s budget speech

Published February 11, 2014

Here are the top 5 howlers in Jim Flaherty’s budget speech, delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon after the 2014-15 budget was tabled. 1. Great job creator? “Since the depths of the recession Canada has led the G-7 in job creation.” It sounds good, but there’s a reason Flaherty doesn’t talk about […]

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