Filibuster Cartoons
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Remember Stockwell Day? Way back in the early years of Filibuster I used to do a lot of cartoons about him. That was back when he was leader of the Canadian Alliance party, back when that existed.
He’s since been appointed president of the Canadian Treasury Board. Since Mr. Day is generally considered to be a strong right-winger, this was interpreted as a sign that Prime Minister Harper intends to “get tough” on fighting the Canadian deficit and scaling back excessive big-government spending. Or so optimistic conservatives had hoped.
Well this week Mr. Day held his first post-scaling press conference, and announced with great pride that he had cut over 400 jobs from the federal payroll, saving the taxpayers a grand total of (wait for it) $1.4 million dollars.
Wow, thanks Dr. Evil.
As Don Martin quotes in yesterday’s National Post, Day’s cuts cancel out a full 90 minutes of growth in the national deficit.
