
Sigh... well anyone who knows me knows who I'm *not* voting for. Why?
Poor Fiscal Management
With the GST cut no economist would get behind and budgeting so that the surplus is gone, we're on the brink of running a deficit with an economic slump in sight - and the Tories are supposed to be the more fiscally conservative
Handing Food Inspection to Industry
Planning to officially change food inspection to being done/managed by industry instead of the government, which has slowly been happening already (shades of Walkerton, plus the recent Listeria outbreak)
Secrecy
Harper's iron fisted control over gov't information and locking out the press in various ways - and this is from the man who ran on creating a more open and accountable government (how do you keep them accountable if you don't know what they're doing?)
Inaction on the Environment
Lots of talk, no real action, removal of previous programs promoting green energy and business development and active disruption of international cooperative efforts on environmental action - particularly climate change (if you don't believe climate change is happening, you haven't been paying attention, either to scientists -
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=final-report-humans-cause) - or the news -
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gT3x3JoOwwt12fSlVWyCofqaK7qA)
No Early Childhood Plan
A family benefit that's too small to make a real impact and is taxable - nothing they've done have increased daycare spaces either and believe me there's a definite need for more spaces
Underhanded Electioneering
Improper election spending last time (explanantion from the Liberal site
http://www.scandalpedia.ca/Scandals/InOut_en.html), using government money for pro-PC flyers (we get these frequently) and the spending gobs of cash on commercials for their party, just before they actually called the election, so they didn't have to count it under their election spending limit
Slamming Ontario
This was spearheaded by Jim Flaherty (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flaherty) - former Harris minister - for what reason I don't know
Lack of Support for Major Cities
Major cities are the hub of commerce and development and many people other than those who live their use city services - with high infrastructure and transit costs alone more support is needed.
Major cuts to the Arts
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Who will I vote for though? I'll have to write another post about that...