It Is So Bad That We are Suppose To Rejoice If The Debt Keeps Growing —The Conservative Platform
We have borrowed so much that reducing “how much” we borrow( just a promise remember) is suppose to be a great plank in the platform.
How many promises of balanced budgets have led to these higher deficits and higher debt circumstance? According to the Royal Bank of Canada our net federal debt in 1985 was $249 billion. In 2025 it is $1.4 trillion.
You are not serious that the country’s violation of a Nato Agreement for 10 years will still see another 5 before we meet our 2014 promise? That promise was to spend 2% of our GDP on Defense . The USA is calling for 5% now! I mean our debt increase from 2014 to now is $700 billion!!
You are not serious that you will cut CBC English but keep CBC Quebec? I thought you were to cut CBC, all of it!
We still don’t have free trade in our country but criticize the US for anti free trade practices? We actually have a Free Trade Agreement in our own Country but still do not have free trade? And you will keep anti fee trade supply boards?
We have a Nationl Health Act and , and , and ———
It’s too embarrassing —I can’t go on ——-
It’s not ‘safe and effective’ to do so!!!
by The Honourable A. Brian Peckford
April 23, 2025
Here is an excerpt from an article written in 2011 titled “The Peckford Government 1979 – 1989”
Note the line in the below paragraph that partially reads as follows: “By the time he left office In 1989, the province remained the most debt-burdened in the country”.
Although Peckford made significant gains in the oil industry, the prosperity he hoped for did not materialize during his premiership. Disputes with Ottawa, legal battles, and a weak international market hindered progress. By the time he left office in 1989, the province remained the most debt-burdened in the country, with high unemployment and low personal income. Still, the Peckford administration laid the groundwork for future oil developments, which, in 2008, fulfilled his famous prediction that “Some day the sun will shine, and ‘have not’ will be no more.”
Peckford in now living in the Province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island and being funded by a lucrative and fully indexed Newfoundland Government Pension paid for by Newfoundland taxpayers.
Can anyone see the “irony” with Peckford now alluding to how poorly the current Federal Conservative Party election finance proposals are after 10 years of ruinous Liberal Party rule.