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Monday, June 22, 2015

Kick off the summer with Harpers numbers....

13 numbers showing Harper's Conservatives may truly be the worst Canadian government ever


Parliament is set to break for the summer this week before gearing up for the election in October.
And what better way to kick off a summer vacation than by breaking down the saddest, most sigh-inducing numbers that the 41st Parliament produced in 2015:

1.8 Billion

Dollar amount taken from Employment Insurance fund by Finance Minister Joe Oliver to, ahem, "balance" the 2015 budget.

7

Number of years the supposedly 'fiscally responsible' Conservatives took before actually balancing a budget.

274,822

Number of Canadians who have petitioned the government to kill Bill C-51.
Although that number doesn't include 4 former Conservative and Liberal Prime Ministers, an organization representing 36,000 lawyers, 100 law professors60 Canadian business leaders and 12 provincial and territorial Privacy Commissioners (that's all of them ... except for New Brunswick) who've all warned C-51 is an exceptionally bad piece of legislation.

READ MORE: http://www.pressprogress.ca/13_numbers_showing_harper_conservatives_may_truly_be_the_worst_government_ever


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