Promises by Mr. Mulcair

Mr. Mulcair is selling his programs to Canadians at a rate that will see Canada continue to have a deficit budget, not a small one but very large in size. To date Mr. Harper has added over 150 billion dollars to our debt which stands at over 600 billion dollars. He wants us to stay the course even if he has not balanced the budget for the past 8 years. 

Fast forward to today and Mulcair, and yes with the economics as we are in right now Trudeau has said he will have to run a deficit budget until Canada can clear things up. The other two leaders, with Harper, are saying to stay the course with his questionable budget balanced and Mulcair who said he will balance the budget in his first year.  

How do we get two Leaders, who are so different in their concept of budgets, seeing there is only so much revenue to spend? You can be assured if Mulcair gets into power his first statement after thanking Canadians and his party is that Canadian finances are worse than expected, and they will have to cut a number of their promises until they get this under control.  

This just happened in Alberta with the new NDP government. All blamed on the oil situation, and even with our dollar one third of what it was a few months ago, still has not stimulated our exports.  

We are still in a recession with a slight upgrade in June. How about July and August? In Mulcair’s hip pocket is a large sum of money, 62 billion dollars of the military pension fund surplus. A surplus belonging to government by taking deductions from the military's pay for their pension, adding their matching figures, investing these monies and then taken this surplus which belongs to government by order of SCC and may use this money as they see fit.  

So will they use this money to balance their budget?  A crime if they do so since look at what has happened to the thousands of disabled veterans with PTSD, living on the streets, so screwed up and all this government is doing is applying a band aide. A band aide when there are billions of dollars in pension surplus to be used to help them and for that matter help all Canadians who need it.  

We veterans served Canada. We still have the understanding for the needs of all Canadians and would gladly share the wealth to help the less fortunate, but somehow and it is a mystery to most of us why it has not been done to date.

Dale Dirks