Harper Government puts its money where its mouth is with the Economic Action Plan

The Harper Government today released more details of its Economic Action Plan. Proving once again that this governments lives by its words, the new documents show how the Harper Government has pumped over $136 million dollars into the vital advertizing sectors of our economy. The government has single handedly put more money into the advertising sector of the economy than any other major corporation in Canada.

Harper Government bans words associated with racial minorities

In the wake of the emotional distress caused to conservative senator Don Meredith as a result of the insensitive racial comment "cotton-pickin minute" uttered by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, the Harper Government has put forward a bill in the House of Commons to ban all use of certain words and phrases which may be seen as racial insults. If passed, words and phrases such as "cotton pickin minute, homo milk, Oreo cookie, niggardly (see March 2 entry), and a list of about 10,000 other words, will be stricken from the English language. This government intends to show that that we can be more politically sensitive than all the other parties. Especially when it serves our own purposes.

Longer Lasting Plastic Money on the way.

The Harper Government is pleased to announce the introduction of new Canadian bank notes which will be fabricated out of a new polymer material. The new bank notes, starting with the introduction of the 100 dollar bill, will be made out of the same plastic that the Prime Minister's suits are. This plastic which has allowed the Prime Minister to easily deflect all criticism and scandal and maintain his lead on the polls, will increase the life and perceived cleanliness of our money in exactly the same way.

Harper Government assures Canadians that F-35 costs are low.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page has released a report claiming that the lifetime costs the new F-35 fighter jet purchase by the Harper Government, is going to be $30 billion rather than the $18 billion originally estimated.

The Harper Government is standing behind its original estimate of cost. These cost estimates were originally created by a non-partisan group of industry insiders working for the U.S. Pentagon. We also saved an incredible amount of money by having the Pentagon create the specification and perform the whole bid process on our behalf.

The Harper Government probes CRA kickback allegations.

Recent revelations in the media that CRA agents may be taking kickbacks from businesses in exchange for reducing fines or taxes owed to the government, are being seriously investigated by The Harper Government.

A spokeswoman for Revenue Minister Keith Ashfield said "Our government is supportive of this investigation and will ensure that the CRA co-operates with all investigations,”. She said the investigation would take a while as she, the Minister, and all the investigators were new to the issue, and all previous persons investigating these allegations have all recently retired.

Fund Raising and Spending of the Conservatives and The Harper Government

The recent ruling by Federal Court of Appeal against the Conservative Party of Canada regarding the charges brought forward by Elections Canada, is an unfortunate blow to the freedom of well funded parties to spend their money as they see fit.

The premise of Elections Canada's charge is that while it is perfectly reasonable for national parties to transfer funds to local ridings, and indeed all parties do this all the time, it is unprecidented that anyone would then transfer the money right back out again, returning it (sometimes within 15 minutes) and now being able to spend the money nationally, but claim it local expense.

Members of Parliament are missing House votes

The Globe and Mail newspaper today is reporting that "Too many MPs are skipping Parliament."

Indeed a great many MPs are not showing up to vote on key legislation which has been put forward by The Harper Government, and most of them are on the opposition benches.