CBC: Election a threat to economic recovery: Flaherty

[tuvor]

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is warning against the risk of opposition parties triggering an "unnecessary" fall election that he says would jeopardize Canada's economic recovery "just as we enter the home stretch."

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"Under an Ignatieff-NDP-Bloc Québécois government, nothing would be safe," Flaherty said. "No part of our economy would be spared. No taxpayer would avoid the hit."

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In his speech, Flaherty joined political leaders of all stripes who have taken pains at the start of the fall parliamentary session to stress that Canadians do not want another election.

But the minister added Canadians will face a "stark choice" sooner or later in the next federal vote between a "stable national majority" under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's leadership or a "reckless coalition."

"Of course they deny they'll officially join forces, but they did it before; they'll do it again," Flaherty said. "And that is the choice we will face."

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/09/21/flaherty-economy-election-risk.html

[CHIMO]

1. Cons Not As Bad

Tories invoke sponsorship scandal
to defend record ad spending

The Conservatives are defending their record advertising spending last year by saying the number compares favourably to the Liberal budget in the days of the sponsorship scandal.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tories-invoke-sponsorship-scandal-to-defend-record-ad-spending/article1717213/

[EmilyKent]

2. FEAR, FEAR, FEAR....

Are you all afraid yet? :rofl: