Official Opposition: Retirement Security

Federal Deficit Dept: “It’s not a budget that addresses the urgent needs of families right now for job creation. They’re pinning all their hopes on more tax cuts for banks but the evidence is very clear that we need much more proactive action to create jobs,” he told reporters in Ottawa, according to Globe And Mail. “I think the government on purpose is not telling Canadians what it’s going to cut because it knows it will be unpopular for doing so. I would have hoped we would have had more transparency,” he said. “Well, it looks like billions of dollars of cuts are being hidden away. So our job as the Official Opposition is going to be to root out what it is that the government is up to.” NDP Leader Jack Layton said the government hadn’t addressed a host of issues affecting families, namely job creation, retirement security and health care. He said the NDP would propose an amendment focusing on these areas, but conceded the party has a low chance of success given the government’s majority. Mr. Layton accused the government of hiding its plans to eliminate the federal deficit in 2014-15, one year earlier than planned. As reported in the news.
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