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Setting the Record Straight

In the last issue of the Focus, former MP Ben Lobb was quoted as saying that the government was defeated on the budget. He further hinted that measures attractive to the farming community were included in the budget and that the other parties, by voting the budget down, had effectively made those measures null and void.  This is a complete falsehood and the record needs to be set straight. 

The Harper government, for the first time in Canadian history, was found in contempt of Parliament.  When a government has committed fraud, has refused to be forthright on financial costs of major expenditures, has cheated on election financing, it is the responsibility of the other parties to bring that government down in a vote of non-confidence.

So, to correct Mr. Lobb, the government was defeated because of the contempt charge and not on its less-than-adequate budget. The people of Huron-Bruce need to be aware of this very important difference and need to question the statements of the former MP.  

If we want to elect a government that is stable, we need to  elect a member and a government that is honest with us.  And we need to elect a government that is willing to work with the other parties, not to sabotage their efforts, so that Canada can move forward.

Ross Hemingway

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Monday, April 11, 2011