Goodale, first elected in Saskatchewan in 1974, is one of those rare politicians who ends up known by only one name: “Ralph.” He is as much a Prairie icon as the grain elevators, though they, of course, are rapidly vanishing from the Big Sky landscape.
And so will Ralph...
This is the part of MacGregor's column that gets us.
“It's not a ‘TAX,'” says Goodale. “It's a ‘TAX CUT!'” – one that he says will give every individual in the province a tax break.
Ralph is either incapable of telling the truth, or to arrogant to admit what Green Shift actually is.
However, last week on JGL, Ralph all but admitted Green Shift was a wealth transfer from the West to the East. We're still trying to source the clip but will post it here when it becomes available.
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2 comments:
"This is the part of MacGregor's column that gets us."
Who is "us"?
You and your employer, the CPoC?
I'm not exactly in favour of goodale here but let's take a step back;
why *shouldn't* we channel a whole bunch of wealth to the east? They are in a recession right now due to changes in the global market; shouldn't we help them get back on their feet? If Saskatchewan/Wascana were in a recession, couldn't we count on them to do the same to us? And even if we couldn't, shouldn't we lead by example, by putting the National interest above our own?
Now if the issue here is that Ralph isn't being honest about his intentions, that's fine, or if it's that Ralph doesn't fully understand the implications of his intentions, that's fine. But something tells me you're going for the western-bloc crowd or something by pointing this out, at least in part and I'd like to suggest there National interest at stake here, and that we should, as Canadians, support it.
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