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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Stephen Harper: The Disingenuous Prime Minister of Canada - Please resign

Reality check: How’d the NDP and Liberals vote on GST reductions?

Overall truthiness: False, on several technicalities.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper had to reach pretty far back in time for one attack against his opponents on Monday.

“Justin [Trudeau] and [Thomas] Mulcair and all of their people have voted against the GST cut,” Harper said, referring to the Liberal and NDP leaders, respectively.

The GST cut Harper referenced was one of his campaign promises back in 2005 —the campaign that ultimately led to his first government.

READ MORE: http://globalnews.ca/news/2147336/reality-check-howd-the-ndp-and-liberals-vote-on-gst-reductions/

There is no question most NDP MPs voted against the budget bills that included the tax measures. Mulcair, who was a rookie, having won a by-election six months before the first vote on GST cuts, is on the record as voting along the party line.

So Harper was right on that —Mulcair “and his people” voted against the tax rate reduction.
The Liberal situation is less clear.

Firstly, Trudeau wasn’t in the House of Commons during any of this; he won his first election in 2008.

Secondly, most Liberals actually didn’t vote at all. Out of the 104 MPs the party had in 2007, no more than nine ever voted at any of the stages of the bill (each bill has to pass three votes in the House of Commons).

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