In a little over a week, MPs elected by 62% of votes cast in the last election will be faced with a new Tory budget, and with the question: Do they each have confidence in the government of Stephen Harper in these difficult times?
Each MP will have to use his or her conscience as a guide, and will have to consider the interests of Canadians, who need a stable, trustworthy government during the next two years of economic turmoil.
Scott Brison has outlined very clearly the untrustworthy nature of the Tories:
“It took the Prime Minister a mere few weeks to go from saying there would be no recession to speculating on a full-scale depression. It was this Prime Minister who told Canadians that if we were going to have a stock market crash or economic downturn that it would have already happened. And it was this Minister of Finance who introduced an economic statement that tried to hide the truth from Canadians (that his government had already put Canada into a deficit position).”
Many ordinary Canadians feel exactly the same, and that is why the majority of Canadians (55% in a recent poll) no longer have confidence in the ability of Harper to manage the country.
