Note to Ignatieff: Get serious

Earlier today I criticized the Conservative government (or am I suppose to call it the Harper Government now?) for picking symbolism over substance on the budget. I admit that the budget isn’t released yet, but there are unlikely to be many surprises. The government has projected that it plans on waiting for revenue growth to balance the budget, a plan I might add that has never worked in the past.

Just to show that I am fair minded, I thought that I would point out that the government’s pretense of a plan to balance the budget is at least better than the Liberal opposition.

Michael Ignatieff has zero credibility on balancing the budget. Whilst the Conservatives hope that the budget will magically balance itself, the Liberals are proposing plans that ensure that it never will. At a time of backbreaking deficits no serious politician should be proposing new programs with new spending. The money that Dr. Ignatieff wants to spend on arenas and education simply does not exist.

A responsible opposition should tell the people what they would do if they were government. This opposition party, if they were in government, would drive us even faster off the cliff than the current government.

Michael Ignatieff, if you want to be taken seriously by the Canadian people you have to make serious proposals.