To the editor:
Re: Deficit-free plan offers real leadership for Canadians, editorial, Nov. 28.
As the Flaherty love-in continues for the paper, I find it rather ironic that the day after an editorial commenting on the staggering unemployment numbers in the Region appears, the paper writes an editorial praising the government for not going into deficit to fix the problem in the fiscal update by the Federal Tories.
The paper even lauds measures such as political subsidy cuts, a freeze on federal public servants right to strike, all which will not by any stretch of the imagination bring back one job to the Region. Every day on the news wire is an announcement of a spending stimulus for job-creation in the economy by a country in the G20, except Canada.
In the United States, both political parties are participating on a daily basis in bilateral talks of financial stimulus to create jobs.
Maybe it is time for the parties which received over 60 per cent of the votes of Canadians to consult and come up with a better plan, one that will at least have something in it to create a job for the Region and one that won't have editorial writing appear so inconsistent from day to day.
Mike O'Neill
Whitby
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