The Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-04-06, Page 9MP Lobb says Liberal fed.
budget 'bad' for Huron -Bruce
Darryl Coote
Reporter
The amount of new debt
Canadian taxpayers will be
shouldering under the 2016
Liberal federal budget is
"staggering," said Ben Lobb,
the Conservative MP for
Huron -Bruce.
Released March 22, the
ambitious budget pre-
scribes a cumulative debt
load of more than $100 bil-
lion over the next six fiscal
years with increased invest-
ments in areas such as
infrastructure aimed at
growing the economy.
For MP Lobb this is too
much to ask of his
constituents.
"That is a staggering
number," Lobb told The
News over the phone, "and
citizens should be
alarmed."
There is no need for
that much debt to be
piled on the citizens, he
said, since the country is
currently experiencing a
modest growth.
"I think many of us in the
Conservative party antici-
pated it to be a bad budget,"
he said.
Not only is it bad for Can-
ada, he added, but it's bad
for Huron -Bruce.
"There is nothing in the
budget for small busi-
nesses," he said, adding
that one would be hard
pressed to find the word
"job" anywhere in the 271 -
page document.
MP Lobb then said Dan
Kelly, president, CEO and
chair of lobbying organiza-
tion The Canadian Federa-
tion of Independent Busi-
nesses (CFIB) was unable
to get a meeting with
finance minister Bill
Morneau.
The CFIB did confirm
that this is true to The News
though added the CFIB did
message its concerns to the
finance committee; how-
ever, this is the first time in
the CFIB's 45 years that its
president was unable to
meet with the finance min-
ister prior to the release of a
federal budget.
"You should be trying to
get people back to work,"
Lobb said, and avoiding
Kelly will not help do that.
The budget also lacks
vision when it comes to
the agricultural sector,
Lobb said.
"[Huron -Bruce's] tradi-
tional economy is agricul-
ture, and there is nothing
in there for agriculture,"
he said.
Lobb said Huron -Bruce
families will see a signifi-
cant difference in their tax
returns from next year
compared to this year due
to the elimination of the
Children's Fitness Tax
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budget.
While some critics have
argued that the elimina-
tion of these credits will
free up money for larger
programs with greater
effects, Lobb said they will
hurt local families.
"I'm not going to make
any ringing endorsement
of it," he said of the budget
as a whole.
Concerning military, the
relocation of almost $4 bil-
lion in capital spending
from this sector should be
troubling to the public, said
Lobb.
Parents of young men
and women in the Cana-
dian military expect them
to be safe and be armed
with the best equipment,
Lobb said, and these
"huge cuts" renege on that
promise.
Lobb said the Conserva-
tive government spent the
last 10 years rebuilding its
military, and that the pub-
lic needs to put pressure on
the Liberal government to
reinvest in its armed forces.
He then called back to
2002 when the Liberal gov-
ernment sent Canadian
military personnel to
Afghanistan in green
fatigues.
"We don't want to go
back to that;" Lobb said.
The only aspect of the
budget Lobb endorsed was
the $3.4 billion increase to
Guaranteed Income Sup-
plement that will take
place over the next five
years, which aims to help
at -risk seniors.
"Unfortunately for them,
any increase they will see
will be taken back," Lobb
said, due to increases in the
cost of electricity and taxes,
which will make it "hard for
seniors to stay ahead."
Overall, Lobb called it a
"bad budget."
"At this point in time I
would give it a thumbs
down, for sure," he said,
and it represents "more
broken promises from the
Liberal campaign."
"We'll see how every-
thing works out in the next
year," Lobb said.
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