Sam, you asked in your previous post if John Loxley, Cho!ses and the CCPA put out an alternative budget this year. The answer is yes and they did meet with martin prior to his issuing of the budget but, as usual, he paid little attention to the AFT. The AFT was released at press conferences across Canada, including Vancouver, two or three weeks before Martin's fiasco. Paul Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba Sam wrote: > I forgot to add that the Finance minister will _not_ be making the usual > post-budget bum-sniffing tour of Wall Street to ensure Moody's and > Salomon Bros. that everything is eh-o.k. As already noted on the list, > the gov't has increased CPP premiums and has been covering the budget > deficit using the surplus resulting from the massive cuts in > unemployment insurance eligibility. > > SP >
[PEN-L:3529] Re: Re: Canadian Budget
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