To the Editor,
Tom Mulcair is making a lot of promises on his election campaign for the NDP across Canada.
National $15 a day childcare. Cost to government will be 1.9 billion per year at implementation and up to $5 billion per year when fully implemented. There is one catch to this promise which he will not discuss: the provinces have to come up with their share, which is 40 per cent. How can the six have-not provinces come up with this kind of money?
Roads, bridges, and transit infrastructures at a cost of $1.5 billion a year. Restore home mail delivery at a cost of $500 million per year. Raise guaranteed income supplement for seniors at a cost of $400 million a year. Hire and train 2500 new police officers at a cost of $100 million per year.
Where is Mulcair going to find this extra money, and still balance the budget in his first-year mandate?
Either Mulcair has a money-minting genie in a magic lamp in the truck of his campaign bus or he has some explaining to do to voters.
If Mulcair and his NDP are elected to the government of Canada, you know exactly how he intends on keeping his promises above.
The No. 1 rule of NDP economics of finance is to borrow, tax and spend, just like the former provincial NDP governments in B.C., Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and soon to be voted out NDP provincial government in Manitoba.
The NDP have started demolishing Alberta now, and will also be a one-term NDP government. Remember though, that the Alberta NDP only won the election because of vote splitting. Mulcair, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley, and B.C. NDP’er John Horgan will not admit to this by keeping a blind eye to the truth.
Some taxpayers are saying that the federal conservatives must go, but would these taxpayers take back a former spouse from a previous divorce to re-create the nightmare, but at the same time are willing to do it with your federal government?
Remember, we cannot have our cake and eat it too.
Joe Sawchuk,
Duncan
