Look to provinces for money, Harper tells cities
Dear Editor:
Re “Look to provinces for money, Harper tells cities.” ( May 3).
It’s Jack Layton, not Stephen Harper, who should be wary of the media. If the media gave as much coverage to the NDP platform as it does to ridiculing Jack and Olivia, the voter turnout would explode. Here is a glimpse of what a Jack Layton majority government would do in its first 100 days:
1) Cut the income tax rates by 30% and abolish the GST.
2) Remove the federal tax on gas.
3) Introduce free dental care and prescription drugs for all.
4) Provide shelter, food, lottery tickets and dance lessons for the homeless.
5) Give every new parent a two-year paid maternity/paternity leave.
6) Distribute video games, designer gear and iPods to street gangs so they’ll quit their mugging ways.
7) Introduce a 30 hour work-week, triple the minimum wage and double Employment Insurance benefits.
Double welfare payments and include a bunny for Easter, a turkey for Thanksgiving and a holiday tree for Christmas.
9) allow optional retirement at age 45.
10) Limit class sizes to 10 students and allow the teachers to run the schools. Where, you might ask, would Jack flash get the mountain of scratch to pay for his utopia? Simple: Sell Alberta with all its oil gas, grain, beef and tar sands to the U.S. Now, how could anyone not vote for all this. Not to mention the added bonus of having Canada’s most charismatic couple fronting for us on the world stage.
William Bedford
Toronto, Ontario
