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NDP bewilders reader

Dear Editor Can you follow how the NDP supporters and their leaders think? Let me take that back. My mouth is wide open and I am scratching my head … I am talking about Mr. Kennedy Stewart’s latest election flyer. In all fairness, Mr.

Dear Editor

Can you follow how the NDP supporters and their leaders think?

Let me take that back. My mouth is wide open and I am scratching my head … I am talking about Mr. Kennedy Stewart’s latest election flyer.

In all fairness, Mr. Stewart did not know at the time his flyer went to print that Canada was just declared the No. 1 country in the world by the Reputation Institute. He did know, however, that The New York Times admitted in the beginning of the year, the Canadian middle class has surpassed the income and lifestyle of those living in the U.S. For the first time ever! Nevertheless, Mr. Stewart claims: “… after a decade of Stephen Harper, that middle-class dream is fading for many Canadians.”

Besides having reduced taxes 150 times on Mr. Harper’s watch, his government now boasts that Canadians are paying the lowest taxes in 50 years. Then Mr. Stewart suggests how to remedy the situation: “Ease the small business tax rate from 11 per cent to nine per cent to spur growth among Canada’s top job creators.”

He also reminds us that we have lost 400,000 manufacturing jobs since 2008. As was quoted in the National Post on July 17 but not mentioned by Mr. Stewart, 212,000 of these jobs were lost in Ontario and 100,000 in Quebec. As we all know, both provinces do not share Mr. Harper’s economic views and are on a path of self-destruction. They are now eagerly imitated by the new premier of Alberta. But let’s blame Harper anyway?

There is more! “Tom Mulcair has a plan to create the middle-class jobs we need: Help municipalities to upgrade infrastructure, creating good engineering and construction jobs.”

The last time I checked there were hundreds of millions of dollars in Mayor Derek Corrigan’s kitty. If our infrastructure needs fixing this badly and it can only be done by creating new jobs, why wait?

Who votes for a politician who spouts such blatant contradictions?

Ziggy Eckardt, Burnaby