Opinion: Bribes work in Canada, ask voters
There is something severely wrong with Canada’s election process when the incumbent Prime Minister and his party can start their unofficial re-election campaign months before actually declaring the election – and do it with our tax money instead of their own party money.
This isn’t just unique to the Liberal Party, former PM Stephen Harper’s Conservatives made 604 announcements worth $1.4 billion in the month prior to calling the 2015 election.
However, comparing Harper giveaways to Trudeau is like trying to equate the little leagues to Major League Baseball.
Last week alone the Trudeau Liberals made 330 spending commitments worth $2.85 billion, doubling Stephen Harper’s whole pre-election promises in a single week. The week prior to that, Liberal MPs made 595 commitments worth $4.9 billion.
To sum it up, the Liberal government had, in the two weeks prior to Aug. 25, committed to 925 projects worth $7.75 billion if they are re-elected. In other words in half the time frame, they have committed 550 percent more money than the whole Harper promise campaign and Trudeau still has until Sept. 15 to call the election.
