Tories Choose Expediency Over Canada

No question both will be popular. Imposed by Tories and saved by a Liberal broken promise, the GST is a hands-in-your-pocket daily irritant. Bringing the folks over here from over there is a feel-good exercise that warms ethnic voters to the party in power. Trouble is, one is lousy economics, the other damages the economy. Together they reduce federal relevancy by further limiting its ability to make this a better country. Tilting to a consumer tax cut pours kerosene on an already overheated retail sector, while personal and corporate relief would stimulate productivity, savings and investment. Skewing to family members rather than to economic immigrants inflates social costs and deflates the benefits of attracting the brightest and best to a country that needs the brains and, more contentiously, the numbers. http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/273171

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