Accountability For Our Money

Monte Solberg puts the NDP budget deal into real-money perspective for Canadians:

Many Canadians support the passing of Bill C 48, otherwise known as the NDP Budget Deal, which advocates a $4.6 Billion increase in government spending. In effect these people are saying that the government should spend that $600 per family of four on their behalf even though that same family would NEVER voluntarily give that $600 to the government to spend on their behalf....A few trusting souls might hand the money over if the government provided a very detailed account of how that money would be spent and how it would benefit their family or their community, something the Libs and Dippers have so far refused to do....Most people however would say something like, What did you do with the other $21,000 you take from me every year to spend on behalf of my family? (The federal government spent $5207 per person in real inflation adjusted (1997) dollars in 2004/05).

Good question, Monte. I'd like to see MPs from other opposition parties asking the same question.