LIBERAL RED BOOK
Top 10 Liberal Broken Promises
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (Red Book, Chapter I) - Canada currently has 1.4 million unemployed, half a million not looking for work, youth unemployment at 18% and one in ever four Canadians worried about their jobs.
- Preserving and Protecting Universal Medicare (Red Book, pg. 74) - By 1998/99 the Liberals will have cut $7 billion in social transfers to the provinces.
- Scrap, Kill and Abolish the GST - Prime Minister Chretien and Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps on the campaign trail made this promise. The Liberals will have spent $931 million to bury the hated tax in Atlantic Canada.
- Restore faith in Government (Red Rook, pg. 92) - Sheila Copps, David Collenette, Jean Boyle, Michael Depuy - 'nuff said.
- Stable Multiyear Funding for the CBC (Red Book, pg. 89) - The Liberals cut $377 million from the CBC - a third of the public broadcaster's budget.
- Renegotiate NAFTA (Red Book, pg. 24) - Two months after taking
power, Chretien signed NAFTA without any changes.
- A Code of Conduct for Politicians (Red Book, pg. 95) - No new code and the Prime Minister uses the secret Ministerial guidelines only when convenient.
- Appointments Based on Competence (Red Book, pg. 92) - The Governor General, the Ambassadors to Isreal and Britain, the Chairman of Canada Post, and the last 19 Senators are all partisan Liberal patronage appointments.
- More Free Votes (Red Book, pg. 92) - Out of more than 200 government bills in three years, the Prime Minister has allowed one free vote on government legislation. The Liberals have restricted debate on more than 20 occasions.
- Eliminate Trade Barriers (Red Book, pg. 22) - Internal trade barriers continue to cost the economy $6 - $10 billion a year.
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