Dear Editor
Re: Burnaby NDP MPs critical of Tories’ balanced budget, Burnaby NOW, April 21.
The NOW should note this is not the Conservative government’s first balanced budget since 2006. Prior to the 2008 global economic crisis, the Conservatives had balanced the budget. In terms of local MPs’ opinions, NDP MP Peter Julian criticized the government for having priorities when it balanced the budget this week. Priorities are the key difference between Prime Minister Harper’s Conservatives and the Thomas Mulcair NDP. The Conservatives have a specific set of priorities – low taxes, job growth and safe communities. The NDP wants to tax Canadian families more and think they know better than taxpayers on how to spend people’s hard earned money.
The NDP may think it’s unfortunate the Conservatives have priorities. Joe Oliver’s priorities help families “keep more of their hard-earned dollars to focus on their families’ priorities.” Good on Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives for making taxes the lowest they’ve been in over half a century. The NDP can remind Burnaby residents their tax-and-spend priorities this fall.
