Monday, May 08, 2006
Todd Russell on the Fed Budget
Best top read the whole article but here is a snippit.
* Squashing the Liberal commitment to spend $25 million for threat emitters and ACMI pods for 5 Wing Goose Bay;
* Eliminating the $5 earmarked to market foreign military training (FMT) at 5 Wing;
* Back tracking on their promises regarding Arctic sovereignty in which 5 Wing was supposed to play a role;
* Favoring the wealthy with their GST tax cut of six per cent and increasing income and other taxes;
* Still not allocating funds to cost-share the paving of the Trans Labrador Highway;
* Gutting the Kyoto protocol and hurting energy alternatives such as hydro and the proposed Lower Churchill development;
* Implementing a transit tax refund to “replace” Kyoto despite the fact Labrador has no transit system and is facing some of the greatest impacts in Canada from global warming;
* Failing to acknowledge the problems in the fishery and not mentioning where Coast Guard investments promised by the Liberals to Labrador sit;
* Squashing the Kelowna Accord deals for Aboriginal peoples;
* Giving little to improve life for the Labrador Inuit and none for the Labrador Métis, and;
* Freezing the budget for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).
“It’s atrocious. It’s unforgivable really,” he said.
* Squashing the Liberal commitment to spend $25 million for threat emitters and ACMI pods for 5 Wing Goose Bay;
* Eliminating the $5 earmarked to market foreign military training (FMT) at 5 Wing;
* Back tracking on their promises regarding Arctic sovereignty in which 5 Wing was supposed to play a role;
* Favoring the wealthy with their GST tax cut of six per cent and increasing income and other taxes;
* Still not allocating funds to cost-share the paving of the Trans Labrador Highway;
* Gutting the Kyoto protocol and hurting energy alternatives such as hydro and the proposed Lower Churchill development;
* Implementing a transit tax refund to “replace” Kyoto despite the fact Labrador has no transit system and is facing some of the greatest impacts in Canada from global warming;
* Failing to acknowledge the problems in the fishery and not mentioning where Coast Guard investments promised by the Liberals to Labrador sit;
* Squashing the Kelowna Accord deals for Aboriginal peoples;
* Giving little to improve life for the Labrador Inuit and none for the Labrador Métis, and;
* Freezing the budget for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).
“It’s atrocious. It’s unforgivable really,” he said.
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