- The Harper solution to the undreamt of Oil price and at the pump Gas prices: it's a great time to buy shares in the Oil companies

Submitted: 9:27am, PDT, 30 Apr.'11 CBC
Re-submitted: 1:01pm, PDT, 30Apr.'11 CBC go figure
NDP cap-and-trade plan would hike gas prices: Pembina
CBC News Posted: Apr 29, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/29/cv-election-ndp-gas-prices.html#

I might, but I have to buy food and cloths for my family.

Just look at who is benefiting from these unheard of prices and you'll learn who Harper is in it for.

Its certainly not the manufacturing industry of Ontario and Quebec

and it's certainly not for Canadians who are poised to be hit by another economic tsunami

"Gross domestic product declined 0.2 per cent . . . The weakness in manufacturing is directly tied to the strong Canadian dollar and the slow U.S. Recovery." (G&M, 29 Apr.'11)

Our recovery is directly tied to the US.

(I know, I know, you all thought it was the 'do-nothing' policies of Flaherty and Harper)

Keep in mind, if we believe Harper that his reckless spending in the last couple years actually had a positive impact on the economy, albeit much less than ought to have been realized from the amount spent, this impact is coming to an end - I pray

We are faced with, yet another, perfect wave scenario:

- unheard of, sky-is-the-limit increased costs of Gas.

- unheard of, sky-is-the-limit increased costs of goods, especially food and the necessities of life

- reduced demand from the US causing decrease in exports and thus manufacturing.

- increased Can dollar due to Oil prices causing decrease in exports and thus manufacturing.

What is the Harper government doing to protect us from this

Nothing.

That's the Harper economic policy in a word - "do-nothing"

Just look at his budget, and the Harper campaign promises.

Or, in the immoral (sorry, slip of the pen, I meant to write, immortal . . ., or not)
words of Jim Flaherty: "de nada"

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html