Another Free Market Organization Goes to the Dark Side

This is a letter I sent to Kenin Guadet of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Supposedly the Taxpayers federation is trying to help us fight waste in government, but the reality seems to be they are a front for hiding the waste of the Conservative Party.

As with the NCC earlier they have exposed themselves as just another Conservative Party Apoligist organization. The will ignore the number one problem we have in Canada today, and that is the Federal Conservative Party and Harper, simply for partisan support of the Conservative Party.

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Dear Mr. Guadet:

From your article this morning in the National Post it is clear that the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is now a Conservative Party apologist, as opposed to free market support group helping to find waste and protecting taxpayers. Most appalling was the comment "Harper has a strong history as a fiscal conservative".

Before he was even elected as Prime Minister, running against Martin, he promised $92 billion in new spending to buy the election. This was double the promises of his competition, Martin who was a noted spender himself, and the promises were I am told a record as the highest ever election spending promises made in Canada. Since then he has has increased spending far beyond the capacity of the economy to pay for his waste, destroying the surplus built up by Jean Chrétien. We are headed to the largest deficit in Canadian history: strictly on waste. At every opportunity he has attacked the free market with his now trademark "unfettered capitalism" comments. He made the largest ever peacetime intervention in the economy with his bailout of the fat cats at the United Autoworkers pension fund. He is trashing the most effective tax in the country, the GST, for populist reasons.

Judged on his actions he has a zero record as a fiscal conservative. He is perhaps the worst fiscal manager this country has ever seen (and I lived through Trudeau and I am including him). Given his background at that other orgy of spending excess in Alberta (Alberta with the second worst program spending in the nation, despite low unemployment, last time I checked) I understand the term fiscal Conservative means something different than the lower case version, but the average person reading would think fiscal conservative means being careful with other people's money. Can you not see that your double standard with Harper will not change the fact that his policies have lead us back to the road of economic ruin? That by confusing people who do not have the time to investigate properly you may contribute to them not understand that he is the number one enemy of people who want accountable government in Canada. You are actively contributing to making the tax situation worse, and I can only assume this is for partisan political purposes.

No-one but a partisan Conservative would make such a mistake, to confuse his talk with the reality of his actions. The facts are just too clear. If you cannot see who the enemy is then how are you going to help fix the problem? Your letter has zero credibility due to this partisan nature, and it reflects very badly on your organization.