Naive and egotistical, Canada's Liberal leader isn't the saviour his supporters believe him to be.

Late last month, near the end of a prolonged period of uncertainty in Canadian politics, the Conservative government of prime minister Stephen Harper tabled its 2009 budget, the long-awaited response to the Liberal-New Democrat coalition that had been formed late last year, a last-ditch effort by the government to remain in power.

Is Part Of The Harper Legacy

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There was no particular reason for Canada getting involved in the subprime mortgage racket. The Globe and Mail (12/13, “How high-risk mortgages crept north” by Jacquie McNish and Greg McArthur) tells the tale: “Essentially the appearance of the subprime mortgage phenomenon was part of the Stephen Harper legacy. Canada since the founding of the governments own Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation agency in 1954 has not privatized it as the US government had done its mortgage agencies Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.

This article was first published in January of this year, to much eye rolling and disbelief.

Here we are eight months later and nothing has changed except the government cannot hide the inconvenient facts any longer. Note the dates of the following articles.

The report projects a deficit of $3.9 billion in 2009-10 and $1.4 billion in 2010-11, with a return to modest surpluses of $1.6 billion in 2011-12 and $3 billion in 2012-13. CBC Thursday, November 20, 2008

The federal government will run a $34-billion deficit in the coming fiscal year, and a $30-billion deficit in the following year, a senior government official said. CBC Thursday, January 22, 2009

"We will run a substantial short-term deficit this year which I would estimate at more than $50 billion," Flaherty said. CBC Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Flaherty also said the deficit this year will be more than $5 billion higher than originally thought, moving up to a projected $55.9 billion from $50.2 billion. CBC Friday, September 11, 2009

Where is the Outrage over The Biggest Theft of Taxpayers Money in Canadian History?

During the run up to the October election in Canada, Prime Minister Harper stated that the Canadian Banking system was different than the American banking system and was in fact sound! There were no plans for a deficit! Yet, just 4 days before the election, the government announced a commitment to purchase an intitial $25 billion dollars worth of "secure" mortgages from the Charter Banks through CMHC!

The $64 Billion Federal Budget Deficit is intended to Finance Canada's Chartered Banks

The Conservative government has leaked the details of Tuesday's budget. They have announced a $64 billion deficit.

The Harper government, which has consistently committed itself to a "balanced budget", now claims that deficit spending is required to boost the economy at the height of a major economic recession.

'Deep integration' comes out of the shadows.

The August Review

If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called "deep integration" were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the story.

Pundits would pontificate, editorialists would erupt, security forces would be unleashed.

Instead, a virtual conspiracy to make the country disappear through assimilation into the U.S. gets barely a mention.

Militarized NAFTA

Leaders of Canada, the US, and Mexico have been meeting to secretly expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with “deep integration” of a more militarized tri-national Homeland Security force. Taking shape under the radar of the respective governments and without public knowledge or consideration, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)—headquartered in Washington—aims to integrate the three nations into a single political, economic, and security bloc.

A Whole New Round of Attacks on the Working-Class

It’s in the time of economic crisis that it becomes most apparent whom capitalism (and the governments that manage it) really works for.

Foreign migrant workers provide long hours of cheap labour on Canadian farms

MONTREAL, QUEBEC–Don Jorge* stands outside the St Joseph Oratory, looking at the Montreal landscape in awe.

Don Jorge is a peasant farmer from a small town in Central Mexico.

Every summer he comes to Canada to work for six months on a farm close to Montreal. He has been working that farm for the last 14 years.

Even though he comes every year, he doesn't know Montreal or its surroundings. His knowledge of Canada and Quebec is confined to the fields that he harvests, the IGA where he shops for his weekly groceries and Montreal's St Joseph Oratory – where agricultural workers go to mass once a year.

He cannot leave the farm except for Sunday afternoons, and his only human contact is with other farm workers like himself and with his foreman.