Moldy Peaches

The BC NDP supporter is not routing web surfers landing on various Canadian policeforces to the federal NDP site. Instead he know brings them to a page dedicated to ensure all individuals know the Conservative party are "religious nuts."

Liberals

The wine in Southwestern Ontario is great and we love tradespeople.

Bloc

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe says a sovereign Quebec would be spared the fallout of any future cases of mad cow disease in Canada.

Duceppe speaking to farmers in eastern Quebec said that during the most recent mad cow crisis, Mexico was spared international bans on its beef because it is a separate country from Canada and the United States.

A wonderful geographic tip from Duceppe. Maybe the Quebec dollar would worth more than the peso?

New Democrats

More money for kids. There a few differences between this announcement and the Liberals. The one or two subtlities need to be explore. First, the NDP have no regard for federal-provincial relations. Damn the Constitution!

Next, the party would introduce a Child Care Act to ensure that federal funding for child care is targeted at licensed, high-quality, non-profit child care. They would invest $1.8 billion next year, with annual increases of $250 million for the next three years. This would create 200,000 additional spaces in the first year, with another 25,000 spaces annually after that.

Finally, they are calling for an increase in the federal child tax credit of $1,000 phased in over four years in order to help lower-income families cover child care costs and meet other essential expenses.

Conservative

Another day, another tax credit. This time the credit is targetted at getting young Canadians off the couch and active. This innitiative is well meaning, however, the delivery of the benefit is off base. It is true that Canadian youth need to put down the playstation controller and pick up a skipping rope or lace up hockey skates, however, this tax credit will do little to ensure this happens.

The Conservatives once again do not understand that the problem with youth inactivity is not lack of money. They are falling victim to the common belief of the left that the major barrier preventing individuals and families from activities is financial. This tax credit will just lower the taxes of the middle and upper income earners.

The real problem with these tax credits is that the Conservatives are loosing the niche of the smaller government. Each announcement further complicates the tax system and makes the tax system harder to understand. Lower taxes and simplified rate is the way to go.

The latest polls seem to show the Liberal gun annoucement working. Hmm, who know?