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[Jim Flaherty] is an odd duck. An experienced politician with polished delivery, Flaherty has this ability to sound very intelligent while saying something that is essentially pretty dumb. An examination of the world's richest economies is enough to prove that.
Second, Ontario's struggling auto sector is getting a $3-billion boost from Ottawa, made possible when our friends to the south settled on a package to help the U.S. auto sector. It's not the best investment government could make right now, but it's stimulus.Flaherty wants us not to panic. But if we wait until it's time to panic before doing anything, then it's too late already. And Flaherty ought to know that. He continues to play very cute about a government plan to shore up Canada's economy, so cute that he has many observers convinced he and [Stephen Harper] may just try to stare down [Michael Ignatieff] and the other opposition leaders and dare them to bring down a budget.See the full content of this document
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Don't You Worry About That Pesky Economy
Is Finance Minister Jim Flaherty whistling a happy tune, or whistling past the graveyard?
In Saint John, N. B., this past week, Flaherty gave a speech in which he once again suggested that despite all signs to the contra...See the full content of this document
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