Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Congradulations to Stephen Harper and the Conservative party of Canada. They won the election yesterday. Stephen Harper will become Canada's 22nd Prime Minister. Hopefully he can help redirect Canada in some of the bad choices we made over the last decade or so. Canada is now under a Conservative minority government after being led by the Liberals for 12 years. I'm actually very excited about the change. Harper pledges to reduce our federal tax of 7% to 6% immediately and then aim to reduce it to 5%. Wow! That would be huge for the average Canadian. Hopefully he can fix the mad cow disease problem too. I own two cows and don't want them to catch that horrible disease and I want to be able to ship the meat across the border whenever I choose. Anyways...now anyone who reads this will know Canada's prime minister. Oh...and God bless Canada!

3 Comments:

At 4:24 AM, Blogger Michelle said...

Barry Barry Barry...

:) LOL.. I can't believe you just wrote all of that.. Let's talk about the GST reduction.. Along with the % decrease - I imagine they will decrease the $ amount of GST rebates that they send to everyone - which in fact would make it so that there is no Change in the GST amount we pay every year. Someone crunched the numbers during the election - and figured out the decrease in percentage of GST would only be a savings of about 100$ for the average Canadian - My prediction is that GST rebates will also decrease by about 100$ a year - making the "reduction" in taxes - non-existant.. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :( It was one of those election promises that isn't really promising anything!!

 
At 8:20 AM, Blogger Nathan said...

look lets not focus on promises this guy made to get elected. Hopefully he's a great guy who buys lemonade from children on the street and such but what really matters here is the fact that Barry has 2 cows....that's awsome.

and 1 question does the prime minister get a special house like the white house here?

 
At 5:32 AM, Blogger Michelle said...

Nathan,

Yep yep - there is an official residence for both the Prime Minister of canada and the Official Leader of the Opposition.

22 Sussex Dr is where the Prime Minister lives - check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Sussex_Drive
and
Stornoway - is the name of the house for the leader of the opposition.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stornoway_%28residence%29

 

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