Harper/Flaherty Budget And Infrastructure: Still Far Short Of The Mark
Ok - so it will be $12B for infrastructure instead of the "leaked" $7B amount ... but this remains far short of the $50B amount that would actually be required to, you know, stimulate the economy and put folks back to work.
But hey - there is also a whopping $1 billion over five years for a "Green Infrastructure Fund" focused on "sustainable energy" infrastructure such as modern energy transmission lines.
Not exactly a resounding "Green New Deal", is it?
Good thing Harper is, you know, an economist - I shudder to think how catastrophically worse things would have been with this "budget" had he not been one ...
So, there you have Harper and his Harpies: still out of touch with economic reality and still out of touch with environmental reality.
Or, in one other word: incompetence.
Aren't we happy to have re-elected them, fellow Canadians?
(Addendum: looks like yours truly is not the only one who thinks that this farce of a budget falls far short of the required and necessary mark ...)
But hey - there is also a whopping $1 billion over five years for a "Green Infrastructure Fund" focused on "sustainable energy" infrastructure such as modern energy transmission lines.
Not exactly a resounding "Green New Deal", is it?
Good thing Harper is, you know, an economist - I shudder to think how catastrophically worse things would have been with this "budget" had he not been one ...
So, there you have Harper and his Harpies: still out of touch with economic reality and still out of touch with environmental reality.
Or, in one other word: incompetence.
Aren't we happy to have re-elected them, fellow Canadians?
(Addendum: looks like yours truly is not the only one who thinks that this farce of a budget falls far short of the required and necessary mark ...)
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