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The budget is "unfair" and "mean"? Jesus christ, grow a pair and grab a brain while you're at it.
Dion decries Conservative budget as ‘unfair, divisive'
Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion rallied his front line troops Thursday, delivering a strident anti-budget speech to the parliamentary caucus in anticipation of a spring election.
Mr. Dion's impassioned speech was punctuated by boisterous cheers and applause as he told the open-door meeting that Liberals want a “richer, fairer, greener” Canada.
He called the Conservative budget “unfair, divisive and dishonest,” citing several examples of what he said were promises broken by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Pointing to the multibillion-dollar surplus, Mr. Dion declared that “never has a government done so little with so much,” and he chastised the Mr. Harper government for its “smallness of ideology, the meanness of spirit, the inability to understand the enormity of Canada's future.”
He says his Liberals don't want a federal election but he claims the Tories are trying to force one.
The speech comes as successive polls suggest widely varying support for the front line parties, with Leger Marketing putting the Conservatives at 41 per cent support — enough to form a majority government — while a poll conducted by Decima about the same time had the Tories at 35 per cent.
Dion decries Conservative budget as ‘unfair, divisive'
Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion rallied his front line troops Thursday, delivering a strident anti-budget speech to the parliamentary caucus in anticipation of a spring election.
Mr. Dion's impassioned speech was punctuated by boisterous cheers and applause as he told the open-door meeting that Liberals want a “richer, fairer, greener” Canada.
He called the Conservative budget “unfair, divisive and dishonest,” citing several examples of what he said were promises broken by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Pointing to the multibillion-dollar surplus, Mr. Dion declared that “never has a government done so little with so much,” and he chastised the Mr. Harper government for its “smallness of ideology, the meanness of spirit, the inability to understand the enormity of Canada's future.”
He says his Liberals don't want a federal election but he claims the Tories are trying to force one.
The speech comes as successive polls suggest widely varying support for the front line parties, with Leger Marketing putting the Conservatives at 41 per cent support — enough to form a majority government — while a poll conducted by Decima about the same time had the Tories at 35 per cent.
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