At the recent G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia Prime
Minister Stephen Harper announced his government intends to return to balanced
budgets and reduce the national debt to 25% of GDP. He has also urged the provincial and territorial governments of
Canada and G20 countries to follow his leadership. Now here are the facts!
Prime Minister Harper once claimed if elected as Prime
Minister that he would never run a deficit budget. He now holds the record for squandering billions of surplus funds
when he took office, running continuous budget deficits and running this
country into the highest national debt in the history of Canada. Harper claims he will try to return to
balanced budgets by 2015, but that is dependent on our economy, the world
economy, and at this point neither look very good and Canada’s national debt
continues to rise. It is now over 616
billion and rising and Canadian taxpayers will have to pay for this one day.
Further, in the many Middle East conflicts our Prime
Minister has committed millions of taxpayer’s dollars for humanitarian
aid. He recently announced further aid
to those affected by the crisis in Syria bringing Canada’s contribution to $203.5
million for humanitarian assistance to the crisis in Syria since January
2012. Harper claims this is necessary
to assist the millions displaced to neighboring countries due to the conflict
and that 100,000 have died since the conflict began. Harper now supports the US position of a military strike since
the United Nations concluded the Syrian regime used gas to kill people in this
ugly conflict. If we were going to
intervene in a conflict that is not ours then we should have done it sooner,
saved a hundred thousand lives and $203.5 million of Canadian tax dollars. There were over 800,000 Rwandan’s killed in
the Rwanda Genocide back in 1994 that only lasted one hundred days while the
world, including Canada, stood by and did nothing.
