Flaherty To Pressure Retailers Into Lowering Prices

Maybe they don't really believe in the forces of the marketplace and free enterprise? If they did they wouldn't support the Trans-Canada power grid & they definitely wouldn't have their gateway initiatives. Why go to the trouble of doing more business with China, Japan & Korea when we share a border with the country with the biggest economy in the world? Telling retailers to lower their prices because our dollar is so high might be vote gatehring, but it sure isn't blatant. Is it possible that Flaherty wants to help out Canadian consumers?

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

No. This government (like the one before it) has no interest in helping out the Canadian consumer........except in that time-worn (and many times disproven) hoary old myth of the trickle-down-theory........

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck

"Is it possible that Flaherty wants to help out Canadian consumers?"

HA HA HA HA HA!

Flaherty said companies have to get their prices in line, "either by allowing purchases in the United States by Canadians, but preferably, by getting their Canadian prices in line so Canadians can shop at home." <br />
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<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071021/qp_flaherty_071021/20071021?hub=CTVNewsAt11">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071021/qp_flaherty_071021/20071021?hub=CTVNewsAt11</a><p>---<br>"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

The Retail Council of Canada says that Flaherty should be looking at the manufacturing level as well as retail. Evidently, some (US) manufacturers have increased their pricing on exports to Canada, with the result that prices here stay the same, and the increased profit stays in the US.

Sounds similar to that cursed tax on Softwood, where the money that should have stayed in Canada, became a subsidy for American companies............

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck

Yeah sure, these Harper minions are so sincere with what they say, all one has to do is look at how their actions contradict their words.<br />
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For example, Bombardier is one of those companies being "pressured" by Flaherty, yet that is also one of the companies getting a free ride at the tax payers expense despite Harper claiming he was going to put an end to corporate welfare.<br />
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Corporate welfare alive and well<br />
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/172642">http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/172642</a><br />
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N Say, from where I stand you're losing credibility as you try and defend the indefensible.<br />

First of all I'm not trying defend anybody or anything, I only want to find out what the facts are. Second of all I have no idea what your opinion piece on corporate welfare has to do with a report quoting Flaherty's actual words.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

"I only want to find out what the facts are."

Your facts are a little skewed to one side.

"Second of all I have no idea what your opinion piece on corporate welfare has to do with a report quoting Flaherty's actual words."

Words are just that, words, but actions (as the saying goes) speak louder than words, and as I've already pointed out, Bombardier is one of those companies that Flaherty is supposedly "pressuring" to lower prices. Since you think that Flaherty's word has some meaning to it, may I remind you that Harper claimed he was going to do something about corporate welfare, yet it is a fact that the "new" government that Flaherty serves under is buying votes and who knows what else by handing out millions of stolen tax money to Bombardier and other large corporations, just like the "old" government used to do. If you still cannot see the connection, then there's no hope for you.

If Flaherty was a man of honour, he'd resign rather than serve under liars and thieves, but there he is up on the podium doing a song and dance for his master.

Well yeah we'll have to wait & see if he actually follows through with what he said. The retailers say it's the manufacturers who are keeping their prices high so maybe he'll tell them instead. We'll just have to watch & see if he meannt it.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

"Well yeah we'll have to wait & see if he actually follows through with what he said."

What Flaherty said is not his own words, but the words of the master he serves under. Flaherty's boss made it perfectly clear that his minions can only jump when he tells them to, so in reality we're not talking about Flaherty at all.

Historically, Harper's ability to carry forward with meaningful actions is not very encouraging to say the least.

<blockquote> Bombardier is one of those companies that Flaherty is supposedly "pressuring" to lower prices. </blockquote> And even if he is sucessful, just how much does Bombardier impact the average Canadian anyway. Far better to force automobile manufacturers in the States to lower their prices on imports into Canada, if the average Canuck is to see some REAL benefit. <p>But of course, I make a joke here!</p> http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/10/22/flaherty-retailers.html<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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