Nevertheless, based on finance critic Peggy Nash’s open letter to Jim Flaherty and his interview with her, Walkom thinks the “New Democrats are on the right track” by “breaking away from the orthodoxy of balanced budgets” and embracing a somewhat more interventionist role for the government in the economy. Oh ye of little faith, Thomas Walkom ! “My guess,” he writes in the Star, “is that if Mulcair prime minister, the NDP’s minimalist demands for laws to cap bank credit-card interest rates and ATM fees would quietly evaporate.” So that’s fair warning for all you one-issue ATM fee voters. Look at federal politics right now and ask yourself: If they make this big a mess at their current funding level, how big a mess would they make with more ? The Sun Media editorialists are fine with the bill in general - “is it too much to ask for people to show ID?” they ask - but would “like the Conservatives to go further and end the tax deduction on political donations.” A big fat amen to that. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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