It's Saturday in Ottawa

There are two ways to tell if it is Saturday in the Nation's capital.

The first is to look at the sky. If it is raining, it's Saturday.

The second is to look at page A6 of the local newsrag. Sure enough on A6 of today's bird cage liner is an innocuous article touting FinMin Flaherty saying that Canada's has turned the corner on the recession -- green shoots are showing -- things are looking rosy. Buried in the article is a toss away line stating that the deficit for 2009 has been pegged at a measly $75 billion.

What?

Flaherty told us a few weeks ago that the deficit would be about $50 billion., Now it is 50% higher at $75 billion? Can't this guy count? Or is he just a serial liar?

In the space of 10 months, Flaherty and the Con government have gone from predicting surpluses to small deficits to large deficits to, now, a humongous deficit. And I wager to say that he is not finished yet.

In his last update, before this one, Flaherty touted that the deficit would only be $85 billion over the next 5 years. He poopooed the bank economist who said it will be more like $156 billion. Now he is up to $75 billion in the first of the 5 years and there is no end in site.

Is that what you want from a government?

Watching the junkyard

A watchdog is an animal which is trained to watch over something and alert the owners when something is amiss. A budgetary watchdog is a person trained to watch over the budgets and financial statements released by the government and, should something be amiss, alert its owner - the TAXPAYERS OF CANADA.

This Con government has been nothing if not consistent. They have lied about their advertising expenses during the election; they have lied to Canadian about their intent to fold the gun registry; the have blocked committee work (and then blamed the delays on the opposition) and they have delayed their own legislation all the while blaming the Senate for the delays. They even called an election for no reason then blamed the opposition for bills that were dropped due to their election.

Now they are telling the budget watchdog, who is supposed to protect the wallets of Canadians to sit down and shut up. The Auditor General just released a statement saying that she is disappointed that the government will not even provide broad stokes information on who will get the $3 billion slush fund they have set and for what?

The Con government is corrupt. It serves itself and not Canadians. It is passed its shelf life and should resign in disgrace and waddle on back to whence it came.