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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...

CBC News Somehow, I really don't trust these fellows in government, right now. They've done nothing to impress upon me they in any way understand taxation. Or even representation. They don't understand governing, whatsoever, to be honest. A $1.9 billion surplus when they'd forecast a $2 billion deficit? Seems shady. Something stinks of a lie. The most likely reason is the government is excluding something from the budget. Some thing or things totaling $3 billion in spending, not being accounted for by this Conservative government. It'd be nice if we had a budget officer who'd have already looked into the numbers to announce whether the government was being honest or not. However, the current one's a lame duck. Nothing at all like his predecessor, who was a terrier who nipped at the heels of the government. News organizations seem to be announcing this news without any sense of skepticism. They're acting as government press agents. Should we have expe...