Federal Budget 2011 – Or the Rocky (Flaherty) & Bullwinkle (Harper) Show

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Mal Spooner

My frustration with the Canadian federal government and the frequent but petty and callous roadblocks to ‘goodness’ that permeates their so-called policies. I can’t write about it so watch my rant.

About Mal Spooner

Malvin Spooner is a veteran money manager, former CEO of award-winning investment fund management boutique he founded. He authored A Maverick Investor's Guidebook which blends his experience touring across the heartland in the United States with valuable investing tips and stories. He has been quoted and published for many years in business journals, newspapers and has been featured on many television programs over his career. An avid motorcycle enthusiast, and known across Canada as a part-time musician performing rock ‘n’ roll for charity, Mal is known for his candour and non-traditional (‘maverick’) thinking when discussing financial markets. His previous book published by Insomniac Press — Resources Rock: How to Invest in the Next Global Boom in Natural Resources which he authored with Pamela Clark — predicted the resources boom back in early 2004.

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5 Responses to Federal Budget 2011 – Or the Rocky (Flaherty) & Bullwinkle (Harper) Show

Tom Neufeld says:

March 23, 2011 at 2:24 pm

while I don’t want to see another election waste our time and money, the fact that the budget may get defeated and not allow this new flow through rule become law (for now) is one good result…. nice rant!!

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George Robinson says:

March 24, 2011 at 7:25 pm

Great rant, Mal – I wish more people would remember Flaherty’s Halloween. Petty and Callous indeed – maybe Predatory and Charmless? These people besmirch the very idea of Conservatism with their doctrinaire greed for power.

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david barnsda;le says:

March 28, 2011 at 5:03 pm

While I don’t like to see MORE tax payer money wasted on another election we do need to take a stand against another Harper/Flaherty attack on Canadian tax payers while giving away BILIONS in tax breaks to Corporations. They now have to attack flow through funding strategies for Cdn Charities to save a few hundred million. Give us a break, Mal your rant is great! Keep it up! We have to remind Canadians of all the lies and broken promises of the Harper Dictatorship, in particular the Halloween present of 2006 that destroyed trusts. Another fabricated and completely false lie about so called tax leakage based on a flawed study that was then blacked out so the public couldn’t read it.

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- Mal Spooner says:
  
  March 28, 2011 at 7:37 pm
  
  Thanks for your comments. Don’t have to say how much I agree.
  Mal.
  
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