"We're investing less in renewables than the state of Alaska. So when it comes to clean energy, Stephen Harper's not just behind Barack Obama, he's behind Sarah Palin."
{Video by Liberal Video}
Full speech is here, but I'll give you this additional poignant excerpt as well, but read the whole speech for both the sharper attacks on Harper's use of stimulus to fund Conservative ridings, and his general fiscal mismanagement, but also about what a Liberal government under Michael Ignatieff would look like. The election that comes, and it will come, will be about choices and whether Canadians think more of the same is good enough or whether Canadians think we can do better.
"Back in July, after the G8 Summit in Italy, Mr. Harper gave an interview to The Globe and Mail, in which he said, and I quote:
“I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.”
Think about that for a moment.
“Je ne crois pas qu’aucune taxe soit bonne,” a dit Stephen Harper.
C’est une déclaration renversante pour un premier ministre.
It’s an astonishing statement for a prime minister to make.
We pay taxes, Mr. Harper, so that premature infants get nursing care when they’re born; so that policemen will be there to keep our streets safe; so that we have teachers to give our kids a good education.
We pay taxes, Mr. Harper, because we’re all in this together.
It costs us something, but it makes Canada the place it is: a place where we look out for each other.
But Stephen Harper doesn’t think that way.
Stephen Harper thinks no taxes are good taxes because he believes that the only good government is no government at all.
Liberals say no.
We don’t believe in big government, but we do believe in good government. If we give up on good government the way Mr. Harper has, then we will cease to exist as one great people sharing one great country—and Liberals will never let that happen.
That’s the difference between us and them.
That’s the difference between Stephen Harper and me.
His is an ideology of the past. An ideology that’s contemptuous of anyone who sees government as a means to do good.
It’s an ideology that vaporized the day Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy a year ago.
When Wall Street crashed, even the most ardent free marketeers turned to government to save the free market.
The last year has proved government’s value, as the guarantor of risk of last resort in the capitalist system.
The last year blew Stephen Harper’s ideology out of the water.
Liberals believe in good government. Canadians believe in good government.
You can’t get growth without good government."
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