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Where's the bodies? In this case, where's the expected deficit? The Ottawa Citizen has the answer . $8.7 billion went unspent by the government, this year, which clawed back this money from programs and services across Canada after it had already been allocated for spending. That's bad. That's actually incredibly irresponsible. It's damn near criminal. I know my own family had work relying on federal monies this past summer, and then the money simply vanished, and the bottom fell out of our plans. We really had to scramble about these past few months after we had expected to be working. And if my family was hit by this, then I can imagine hundreds more families like mine were also affected by this, and hundreds of businesses, too. That's thousands and thousands of workers. That's real money that's disappearing from the economy. That's work that disappears, and jobs that are lost. What's worse is the government clawed back $8.7 billion from...

Harper's scum. I'll grant that. However, so is Mulcair. He's stabbed more old-guard Dippers in the back than Harper's ever managed to do in from the political battlefront. Do I wish and hope for Harper to lose this election? Yes. But I don't trust either the NDP or the Liberals to do right for Canadians, either. Both leadership groups have thrown their lot in with  neo-liberal ideology. Ostensibly free trade, although who it's free for is a roulette wheel guess. Further development of the tar sands. Half-measures somehow designed to magically halt Canada's further slide into recession. Neo-liberalism is a failed ideology. It destroys nations. Even massive states like Russia can be brought down low by it. Even rich ones like Japan are forced into decades long recession. And in this election, we have a choice between two neo-liberal parties, and one neo-conservative party. Not much of a choice, is there? Harper offers nothing. He's a spiteful, hateful...