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Old Posted May 3, 2011, 5:15 PM
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Guess you'll have to wait a while to save the $50 off your annual income tax. No TFSA expansion until the budget deficit is eliminated, and the last time a Conservative government reduced a deficit was, well, never.
Speak for yourself. I've already up over $1000 on my TFSA. Plus judging by the 11 month deficit number and a Conservative majority, I don't think the deficit is that far away from elimination.
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Old Posted May 3, 2011, 5:27 PM
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Tell you what, let's both revisit this thread the year the deficit is eliminated to confirm the party in power when that is achieved. If it is the Conservatives, then that would be another first associated with the 41st session of Parliament. History shows the Conservatives are much better at building up deficits than they are at bringing them down.
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Old Posted May 4, 2011, 2:17 AM
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Tell you what, let's both revisit this thread the year the deficit is eliminated to confirm the party in power when that is achieved. If it is the Conservatives, then that would be another first associated with the 41st session of Parliament. History shows the Conservatives are much better at building up deficits than they are at bringing them down.
Sounds reasonable.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2011, 11:48 PM
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Speak for yourself. I've already up over $1000 on my TFSA. Plus judging by the 11 month deficit number and a Conservative majority, I don't think the deficit is that far away from elimination.
Quietly touched on by the gentle media earlier this month:

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Tories miss deficit targets but don't pay political price

Updated: Wed Nov. 09 2011 06:51:10

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OTTAWA — It was the surprising showcase campaign promise of the Conservative election bid just six months ago.

The federal deficit would be eliminated a year earlier than forecast, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an adoring, partisan crowd in Mississauga, Ont.

"Our platform is realistic, accurately costed and looks four years down the road," Harper, who was introduced at every campaign event as a "trained economist," said that day in early April.

Erasing the deficit by 2014 was more than an accounting triumph en route to Harper's majority government win on May 2. The deficit promise had cascading policy implications for other elements of the Conservative platform.

A $2.5 billion income-splitting scheme for two-parent families? Conditional on a balanced budget. So was the pledge for an adult fitness tax credit.

Not surprisingly, those campaign pledges weren't mentioned Tuesday when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty stood in Calgary and announced his government's worst kept secret -- Ottawa's books will not be balanced by 2014-15
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2011, 1:39 AM
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no surprise there - they were found in contempt for not providing numbers on the crime megabill and fudging the numbers on the jets! We really can't trust politicians with money - do we have a deficit ceiling like the states?
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do we have a deficit ceiling like the states?
No. Can't think of any other nation that does.
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RIP ADFW. Welcome Waterdown-Glanbrook. And, um, "Ancaster".

The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario has proposed changes to Hamilton’s federal riding boundaries which leave the city with five ridings, rejigged:

- Ancaster (bounded by Trinity Rd., transmission line south of Garner Rd., Escarpment/403, CN rail line)
- Hamilton Centre (now annexes area from Ottawa to Kenilworth)
- Hamilton Mountain (now cedes area north of Stonechurch and west of West 5th)
- Hamilton East/Stoney Creek
- Waterdown-Glanbrook
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2012, 7:21 PM
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lol I'm in the riding of Ancaster? I live in West Mount, interesting.
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Why not just call it Hamilton West instead of Ancaster? Bring back the Hamilton West riding.
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Strange, the Ancaster riding stretches as far as West 5th it looks like... Should be called Hamilton West, or at least Hamilton West—Ancaster.
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Waterdown-Glanbrook? I prefer the name Wentworth-Gerrymander.
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Waterdown-Glanbrook? I prefer the name Wentworth-Gerrymander.
I admit it, I laughed...

That being said, I think it makes more sense than Niagara West—Glanbrook... Having a riding spread across two municipalities seemed weird to me.
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I'm sure the people of Dundas are pretty happy about being in Ancaster too.


Maybe it makes sense, it paves the way for Hamilton to be rebranded as Ancaster. It might just work.
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They've updated the ridings: http://www.redecoupage-federal-redis...nt=addi&lang=e

* Ancaster is no longer a huge riding that encompasses much of West Hamilton and all of Dundas. Instead, there is now the mostly-rural Ancaster—Flamborough—Glanbrook.
* Hamilton Centre no longer exists. The lower city is now part of Hamilton West—Dundas
* The mountain is now mostly Hamilton Mountain West
* Hamilton East—Stoney Creek is gone, replaced by Hamilton East and Stoney Creek—Mountain East
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They've updated the ridings: http://www.redecoupage-federal-redis...nt=addi&lang=e

* Ancaster is no longer a huge riding that encompasses much of West Hamilton and all of Dundas. Instead, there is now the mostly-rural Ancaster—Flamborough—Glanbrook.
* Hamilton Centre no longer exists. The lower city is now part of Hamilton West—Dundas
* The mountain is now mostly Hamilton Mountain West
* Hamilton East—Stoney Creek is gone, replaced by Hamilton East and Stoney Creek—Mountain East
Proposals only, right?
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Proposals only, right?
I think so still, yes.
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