Canadians Like Mini Budget, But Not Conservative Party

Darrell Bricker, president of Ipsos Reid, said the results suggest the opposition parties are barking up the wrong tree with their criticism of Flaherty's tax cuts, especially the GST. "Even people who should be within the constituencies of some of these other parties, and buying on to the message that the GST is not the right kind of tax cut, they are not buying it," Bricker said in an interview. The bottom line is that more than eight of 10 Canadians are either embracing the economic package, which also includes personal and corporate tax cuts, as a "good" thing, or they are "shrugging it off" as neither a good nor a bad thing, Bricker said. The relative popularity of the package shows Liberal Leader Stephane Dion was smart, despite the party's vehement opposition to the GST, to order his MPs to abstain during Wednesday's vote to avoid defeating the minority government and triggering a federal election, Bricker said. ... http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=f5e4c19e-b66b-4993-8c84-280bf0ea631b

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