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Unless it's a typo, it's pretty poor analysis to use data from 2Q 2008 to critique the statement that Canada had the strongest growth since July 2009.

So do you want to blame the conservatives for the deficit or give credit to the opposition for saving the economy by demanding increased spending? You can't do both.

Total expenditures have remained flat since 2009 when the opposition demanded increased stimulus spending. 5 years no increase in expenditures. Next year there should be massive tax cuts. Get excited, the wife's about to pay off some of her bills!

Hey guys I predicted the s&p500 would increase by 10% last year with a 500% moe. Hur durrr my prediction was better than every analyst's!!

Less corporate taxes means more money available for labour who pay taxes anyway. Investors also pay taxes on any dividends or capital gains from their investments. Corporate taxes have been proven to hinder growth in countless studies. I'm not sure how raising the upper limits of the lower tax brackets and raising the basic personal exemptions are protecting the well to do.

Looking forward to some big tax cuts in the next budget!

Federal corporate tax rates decreased from 22% in 2007 to 15% in 2012. Stimulus spending was much less than the spending the opposition demanded. Introduction of tfsa. $20-25B personal income tax breaks. Etc.

It was a global economic meltdown that spanned approximately 3 years. Canada weathered it better than its g7 counterparts and thus had a shorter period of recession. That's Bryan's point. It's not complicated.

If only there were risk management instruments which could hedge portfolio exposure to oil stocks.

If only companies could open manufacturing plants in Canada to export to the US... Oh wait they can. "Made in Canada" GM cars coming to the EU soon. All hail Harper.

What's your point? You're looking at one side of the equation: cost. How much power was generated by that 49% nuclear vs 7% vs 5% etc.

I think we've established beyond a reasonable doubt that the bombs and guns were from the polic. I mean, didn't you guys see the shoes in that youtube video posted earlier? They all had black boots! So the question for this thread is how do we prevent these police provacateurs from infilitrating all our peaceful protests?

I'm not religious, but god is not really that hard to conceive through science. 100-200yrs from now we may have colonies on other planets, we may have nanomachines in our blood that allow us to hold our breath for hours and sprint at full speed for 30 minutes, we may be able to halt or reverse aging. Future humans will be an "intelligently designed" conglomerate of biology and technology. We will have been our own creators. I don't see why it's so hard to conceive of a highly advanced lifeform creating a habital planet and lifeforms to occupy the planet. Heaven and hell is harder to fathom scientifically though.. But maybe a religious person chooses to take the word of a highly advanced lifeform over some primitive creature that can't even figure out how to observe dark matter!

You do realize that the op mentioned health canada recommending free heroin prescriptions right? Did it not occur to you that Shady might be referring to this?

Yes it was because the reporter was Chinese. Another thought-provoking thread from Topaz.

Xiu (etf on tsx 60) has 3% ttm yield. I think spy (s&p500) is around 2% but you can mix in a us dividend etf to get up to 3. It's not that hard.

You think you need to be a saavy investor to turn 300k into 800k in 50 years..? You could just buy etfs for the s&p500 and tsx60 and maybe throw in a fixed income etf and you'd make about 10000/yr in dividends/interest, and likely have 5-10% annual capital appreciation. You could be a millionaire making 30k/yr on dividends and interest by the time you're 40-50.

Oh look... Another lefty who doesn't understand the difference between debt and deficit trying to tell everyone how bad the economy is under Harper.

From the guy with a master's in economics.

About 1mil jobs since jan 2010 and 500k since the cpc got a majority in may 2011. Fyi 1mil is over 5% of our labour force of 19mil. But let's hand over the reigns to a drama teacher...

Is this really surprising? Health is the one thing most people would not put a price on. That said, this does not contradict any conservative thought... it actually reinforces it. Rather than wasting society's wealth on bureaucracies, inflated public sector wages, welfare, ei, overpaid teachers, police officers, nurses, bus drivers, etc., we should be trying to reduce taxes and prices so that people have more disposable income to stay healthy. Higher property taxes = poor renters will pay higher rent Higher gas taxes = poor people will pay more to drive or take the bus, and for heating, energy, and consumer products Parking taxes/tolls = poor people will pay more to get to work Higher corporate taxes = poor people will have less jobs Higher payroll taxes and ei contribution rates = poor people will have less jobs etc.

US data is relevant whether you like it or not.

US data is better than anything you've provided. I'm not your research assistant. You can continue to ignore the facts if you want, you seem to be good at that.

Is it your belief that Canadian taxation is less progressive than US? Or are you just being purposely obtuse?

what does that have to do with anything? At first glance it looks like it is saying that the private sector invests much more into infrastructure than government?