Conservatives Already Fudging Numbers

You could knock me over with a feather right now, I’m serious! (He isn’t really –Ed.) The Conservatives haven’t even been elected yet and already they’re lying about their fiscal framework, or lack thereof.

A prominent economist commissioned by the Conservatives to assess the financial soundness of their election platform says major items were omitted from the version he was given...Darby says the version of the platform he was given to vet didn't include a Conservative party health-care guarantee which states patients will be transported to another jurisdiction if they can't get timely care at home. It also omitted a Tory platform promise to redress the so-called "fiscal imbalance" between Ottawa and the provinces.

I’m left wondering if there is some sort of neurological disorder that makes Federal Conservatives genetically unable to balance the books. We Liberals have known for a while now the Conservative spending spree would lead to deficit and now it looks like we’re getting the first proof of that. Luckily for the Canadian people we’re getting it before the election. Here’s hoping the Liberal machine nails them on this blatant lie, and here’s hoping the media suspends its smear campaign long enough to expose this hypocrisy.