This is from CTV. Of course Harper is no longer paid by the Candian Taxpayer's Foundation of which he was a former director. Although no doubt Harper still shares their ideological leanings for the most part, he now is in a position where he can buy votes to stay in power and this trumps ideology. He now uses taxpayer's money to try to buy taxpayer votes, a neat trick if it works.
Harper is famous for contradicting himself. He did it on taxing income trusts. He did it on his fixed election date law. Now he is doing exactly what he accuses the Liberals of doing.
Tories slammed for $8.8B spending splurge
Updated Fri. Sep. 5 2008 12:19 PM ET
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the Harper government's pre-election spending is out of this world.
The group says the Conservatives have doled out a whopping $8.8 billion since June - including a $2,000 grant to commemorate a UFO sighting.
Federation director John Williamson says there have been almost 300 pre-election commitments, adding up to about $94 million a day, or almost $4 million every hour.
Williamson says the spending binge is exactly the kind of pre-election splurge Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized the Liberals for in the run-up to the 2006 federal election.
Among the big-ticket Tory commitments: $1.1 billion for a so-called "road map for linguistic duality;" $350,000 for an ice cream company in Prince Edward Island; and $297,000 for a ski club in Newfoundland.
Canada's faltering economy seems likely to be a dominant issue in a federal election campaign that's to begin Sunday, and Williamson says Ottawa should be showing the same spending restraint as Canadian families.
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