Modeling Journey

Once more we see the Harper government trying to change the public discourse away from its performance in Afghanistan, to an issue which puts Ignatieff and the Liberals under the microscope.

Harper is trying to do this by introducing an HST bill while framing the issue as support for the legal right of the provinces to harmonize sales taxes if the provinces wish to do so:

""This is not a complicated decision," according to draft talking points prepared for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, obtained by The Canadian Press. "Either Parliament supports the right of the provinces to choose a harmonized value-added tax or it does not."
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