John McCallum
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John McCallum
John McCallum PC MPis a Canadian politician, economist and university professor. A Liberal Member of Parliamentsince the 2000 election, he currently represents Markham—Thornhill, and has previously represented Markham—Unionville and Markham. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and is currently the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship...
budget economics fails ideology provide puts sound vision
This budget puts ideology before economics and policy, and fails to provide a sound economic vision for the future.
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Beyond the 450,000 barrels of (crude) oil per day is the much more important point that this is the future of the global economy and it's fundamentally in our interests that we become a part of it,
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Clearly they are ambitious in their thinking, ... They are definitely, seriously interested.
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I think it will be a reverse Robin Hood budget.
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I've been there and I've done that. We had ready-made proposals in procurement and service delivery which we already used. We really only had to find $5 billion, and he has to find $22 billion, fast. And they're going to tell him the only way you can do that is to lay off people.
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We rearrange the tables, put out some posters. It takes some effort, but the bakery totally morphs into a different store,
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Unless we see something really good that I haven't heard about yet, I would find it extremely unlikely that we could vote for a budget that has a reverse Robin Hood proposal like the income tax hike.