Mr. Speaker, a growing number of business leaders are expressing concern about the so-called productivity initiative being led by the Ministers of Industry and Human Resources Development, the Bonnie and Clyde of the federal treasury.
Catherine Swift of the CFIB says that this initiative is “potentially some big black hole”.
Why is the Prime Minister again undercutting his finance minister by allowing these big spenders to invent new bureaucratic programs? Why will he not listen to the business community which says that productivity in this country will not go up until capital taxes, EI premiums and marginal rates go down?