The Shifty Finance Minister - Bill C-10

The Senate Standing Committee on National Finance is still looking at Bill C-10. The early senate discussions sound promising with a fair amount of Senators expressing concern that only 57 out of 500 pages (approx) seem to actually have anything with the budget. To view those discussions <click here>

The Senators have referred this bill to the Standing Committee on National Finance and has tasked them with reviewing the bill and making a recommendation back to Senate.

Earlier today while viewing the live webcast of this committee meeting, the Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was speaking before the committee, urging them to pass the bill immediately yet not willingly answering the senators questions about certain "shifty" aspects of the bill.

The idea of splitting the bill was introduced by a number of senators in a few speeches, however final decision on that will not be made today. The Senators were expressing that they could split the bill and have the stimulus package aspect of the bill back to the House of Commons to pass in short order however Flaherty did not want the bill split.

More shiftiness there if you ask me. If one is so concerned with getting the budget passed so it can stimulate the economy why not agree to the split of the bill to expedite the stimulus package and also give the other acts that were buried inside the due diligence that they deserve (that Canadians deserve them to have) and make sure the interest of Canadians is in the forefront?

Things that make you go hmm.

I encourage any and all of you who may read this post to not only continue calling & emailing the Senators, but to also write letters to the editor of your local newspapers. Let's call Government on their attempts to throw women & workers under the wheels of this omniBUS bill!~~