TonyV
Senior Member
So Flaherty is trying to tie the province's hands on the HST. If I may suggest some talking points:
1. Conservatives have campaigned on provincial rights and against strong federal government. So much for that.
2. Flaherty was part of Harris government that filled in Eglinton subway, and is still not willing to pay for transit.
3. Conservatives have encouraged sales tax harmonization for tax efficiency purposes, but Flaherty has just made it impossible for any province going forward to agree to a HST.
4. The Conservatives are now actively against a region paying for public goods accruing to that region, instead making everyone in the province pay for it.
5. Flaherty is purportedly part of a "subways subways subways" political group that has thrown up nothing but obstruction to the actual construction of subways.
I think some effective political messaging could be built up around this.
Heres the thing: Flaherty has to go to hell. He's stepping on our toes here, he can just back off. It is that easy -- the jurisdictional war is getting tired. The federal government's mindset is too small for Toronto.