Conservative Fiscal Plan a Real Winner

[mowich]

The Conservative Party of Canada released a letter from the Conference Board of Canada today. In the letter, the CboC gave full marks to the CPC fiscal plan.

Prior to this announcement, the CPC gave full access to the entire platform and all budgetary measures therein. A bold move by anyone’s standards though not surprising as the CPC platform is not only fiscally viable it ensures that any contingencies are also dealt with properly.

The letter from the CboC stated that the plan was definitely affordable not just in the short term but through the year 2011. A superb example of due diligence and economic forecasting not seen for many decades in Canada.

In summation the chief economist Paul Darby wrote and I quote:

“we found that the Conservative Party’s economic platform is affordable in each fiscal year from 2005-2006 through 2010-2011. In each year there is fiscal year there is enough room to pay down at least $3 billion a year in debt, as in the (government’s) fiscal plan.”

In addition, they found, “Over the five-year forecast horizon to 2010-2011, the CboC economic and fiscal outlook suggests that there remains $15.7 billion in unallocated fiscal room, over and above the annual debt payment, which provides further cushion to ensure that deficits do not occur due to adverse economic effects.”

Just what is the CboC? Thought you might ask so I googled them.

The CboC is an independent, non-partisan (read not politically affiliated with any party), non-profit, privately funded, organization of “specialist in economic trends, organizational performance and public policy issues”. They are also affiliated with but independent from the Conference Board of New York.

Not an organization to be taken lightly and well able to make announcements on fiscal policy.

This move has effectively taken any of the comments that the libs have made concerning CPC fiscal plans and shown them to be nothing more than lies and supposition.

It will be most interesting to see what the libs will have to say about this latest announcement that is if they find time between fielding questions about all the scandal and RCMP investigations.

[Yaro]

No offence but who cares? The Conference Board of Canada is essentially a subsiderary of the Conference Board of USA which is a right wing think tank. Its like saying that the Fraser institute likes the Conservatives, or the CPA likes the NDP its essentially meaningless. Maybe next you will tell us that the Heritage Foundation supports the Conservatives or that the Brookings Institute supports the Liberals, won't that all be a shock.

[mowich]

No offence but who cares? The Conference Board of Canada is essentially a subsiderary of the Conference Board of USA which is a right wing think tank. Its like saying that the Fraser institute likes the Conservatives, or the CPA likes the NDP its essentially meaningless. Maybe next you will tell us that the Heritage Foundation supports the Conservatives or that the Brookings Institute supports the Liberals, won't that all be a shock.

No offense taken however the CBoC contrary to what you say is an independent organization affiliated with it's US counterpart.

I think it was important to point out the fact that the CPC of its own volition gave the CBoC it's platform to further point out the transparency of its platform. The CPC has been continually accused of having a hidden agenda. By putting this information forward Canadians will have a better chance to judge for themselves which of the parties truly has a hidden agenda and it isn't the CPC. Thank you so much for your comments.