IGNATIEFF RUNS FOR COVER

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Liberal leader won’t come clean on his plan for higher taxes

Michael Ignatieff is, once again, desperately trying to re-write history.  

Over the course of the past two decades in his career as a foreign professor and pundit, Michael Ignatieff has called for higher taxes in response to public issues.

Since returning to Canada after more than three decades living abroad, Michael Ignatieff has made raising taxes the cornerstone of his approach to government.

Ignatieff calls for higher energy Taxes
“Taxes have to rise; there is no other way,” (Kingston Whig-Standard, June 10, 1991)

Ignatieff calls for higher Carbon Taxes
“We’ve also got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax…” (‘Ignatieff’s carbon-tax remarks draw fire’, Globe and Mail, June 15, 2006)’

Ignatieff admits that he is leaving a GST hike on the table
“I’m not going to take a GST hike off the table” (CityTV News, December 18, 2008)

Ignatieff calls for higher taxes in General
“We will have to raise taxes” (Tax hike likely unavoidable, Liberal leader says’, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, April 14, 2009)

Now Liberal spin-doctors and flaks are working overtime trying to convince Canadians that Michael Ignatieff has never meant anything that he said.   

But facts are facts – and Mr. Ignatieff is clearly on the record favouring higher taxes

During the global recession when the budgets of so many families are stretched, Michael Ignatieff owes it to Canadians to come clean with real answers on his tax-and-spend agenda.

When will he raise taxes?

Which taxes will he raise?

How much will he raise them by?

And why is he focused on imposing a carbon tax, and raising the GST – both of which are taxes that would disproportionately hurt working families and seniors living on fixed incomes.