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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
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Subject: Re: tariffs,shoes: a source
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 09:33:31 EDT
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> At the beginning of the federal election campaign John Turner was talking
> about cutting the deficit in half in 5 years. Brian Mulroney claimed
> that a Conservative victory would automagically  revive the economy,
> thus bringing down the deficit; all without cutting services or raising
> taxes. (My bogonmeter hit the red line on that one). However, when we      
> come to Ed Broadment we find someone who not only readily admitted 
> that he would be increasing the deficit by about $2 billion in order 
> to finance new programs and enhance existing ones, but also claimed 
> that said deficit was no big deal. If that's how Ed talks during a 
> campaign, then one can only begin to imagine the immensity of the 
> torrents of fresh red ink that would have been unleashed had he made 

A more charitable assumption (and one just as likely to be true) is
that he is more honest/realistic about his plans than the others.

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> >........................................Everyone likes to make a big
> >stink about the federal deficit but after 40 years of conservative rule
> >in Ontario the provincial debt is about $19 billion.  
> 
> If it calls itself a duck but feeds at the trough, rolls in the mud, and
> oinks like a pig, then a duck it ain't.

In that case I'd be interested to know what you consider, more-or-less, a
conservative.

> [Know what Ontario Hydro's debt is?? $22 billion]
> 
> J.B. Robinson