Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Sales Pitch

Fiscal Discipline Dept: Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper took his sales pitch for fiscal discipline to an international meeting of political and business leaders in the Swiss town of Davos. He had three objectives: to boast about his exemplary economic stewardship; to scold his European counterparts for their profligacy; and to send a message home that he intends to trim retirement benefits, tighten Canada s immigration rules and seek more free trade deals, according to The Star. His claim that Canada has economically outperformed most industrialized countries during these recent difficult years was immediately shot down and the great austerity blitz is not going as smoothly as planned. He ran into resistance on all three fronts: (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.