哈珀的减税是否使加国正面临金融危机？

Mulroney 历年的赤字 88-89： 287 亿 89-90： 289 亿 90-91： 320 亿 91-92： 343 亿 92-93： 410 亿 Mulroney 84年上台， 连任两届， 联邦欠债由2079亿猛增至4661亿， 欠债增长125%。 84-93联邦欠债 84-85： 2079 亿 85-86： 2425 亿 86-87： 2733 亿 87-88： 3011 亿 88-89： 3298 亿 89-90： 3588 亿 90-91： 3908 亿 91-92： 4251 亿 92-93： 4661 亿

1993年联邦自由党上台， 继承的是保守党430亿的财政赤字： When Chretien took office in 1993, he inherited a $43-billion deficit left by the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. By the time he retired in 2003, the deficit had been eliminated and the federal government was awash in huge annual surpluses. 2003年， 安省自由党上台， 上台后查帐才发现继承的是保守党55亿的财政赤字： In the 2003 election that brought him to power, McGuinty promised to balance the budget every year. The Liberals backed off that commitment when a report revealed that they had inherited a $5.5 billion deficit from the previous Conservative government.

你要说明什么呢？ GST是Mulroney发明的和“排除万难”实施的， 难到你要怪自由党上台为什么没废除吗？ 有点本末倒置哦！ The Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) (French: Taxe sur les produits et services, TPS) is a multi-level value-added tax introduced in Canada on January 1, 1991, by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and finance minister Michael Wilson. In 1989, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney proposed the creation of a national sales tax of 9%. At this time, every province in Canada except Alberta already had its own provincial sales tax imposed at the retail level. The Liberal-dominated Senate refused to pass the tax into law. In an unprecedented move to break the deadlock, Mulroney used a little-known constitutional provision to increase the number of senators by eight temporarily, thus giving the Progressive Conservatives a majority in the upper chamber. In response, the Opposition launched a filibuster and further delayed the legislation. Liberal Governments and the GST

Reducing the GST’s Rate of Taxation The GST again became an important political issue in the 2006 federal election. The Conservative Party, led by Stephen Harper, promised to reduce taxes by lowering the GST from seven to six percent. The incumbent Liberals, in contrast, supported keeping the GST at seven percent, and lowering income taxes instead. Following the election, the new Conservative government included the GST cut in its first budget; the reduction came into effect in July 2006. The reduction of the GST has received both support and criticism. On the one hand, consumers benefit from the lower GST, as the cost of purchasing goods and services has decreased, albeit by a small amount. Consumers, therefore, should be able to purchase more with their money. Some critics, however, have regarded the tax cut unfavourably, arguing that it makes little real difference to the average Canadian. They also suggest that, if the Conservative government is serious about lower Canadian tax burdens, the focus should be on reducing personal income taxes and not sales taxes. Others have suggested that the reduction in GST is an unfair tax cut, as it benefits higher-income individuals and families more than lower-income ones. Their basic premise is that actual savings depends on how much one spends to begin with; accordingly, those that spend more on goods and services will save more money, in absolute terms, than those that spend less.

上一次联邦和安省保守党当政， 留下的都是赤字， 发明了GST还是填不平赤字， 事实已经说明了问题了， 可笑还有人拿保守的经济来担纲， 无知！无知！ Liberal Governments and the GST As part of its pre-election campaign in 1993, the Liberal Party of Canada released its Red Book — a document that spelled out what a Liberal government would do once elected. One of the Party’s key pledges was to replace the GST “with a system that generates equivalent revenues, is fairer to consumers and to small business, and promotes federal-provincial fiscal cooperation and harmonization.” In that election, the Liberals won a majority government, electing 177 members to the House of Commons on October 25th. Once in office, however, the Liberal government failed to deliver on its election promise. Part of the issue was the federal government’s difficult financial position, with its high annual deficits and accumulating debt load. Moreover, the GST had become an important source of government revenues, totaling in the tens of billions annually. The Liberal government decided to keep the GST, a decision that posed some political difficulties. Liberal Member of Parliament John Nunziata voted against his government’s first budget in protest and was later expelled from the Liberal caucus for doing so. Liberal MP Sheila Copps, then Deputy Minister and Minister of the Environment, had vowed to give up her seat if the Liberals did not eliminate the GST. In 1996, she honoured her pledge and resigned from Parliament, only to be re-elected in a subsequent by-election for her riding.

真的要减税? 俺肯定要投保守党!