The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Toronto - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper revived an NDP slogan from the past, pledging to go after corporate welfare which is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Speaking to the Toronto Board of Trade on Wednesday, Harper challenged the business community to turn down government grants and subsidies, in return for lower business taxes. He criticized a system that has allowed corporations to benefit from government subsidies, saying Canadians have not received value for their money. "It was an NDP leader, David Lewis, who coined the term corporate welfare bums in 1972," Harper said. "Unfortunately, in the past 30 years, too many corporations have been drawn into this trap by the available plethora of government loans, grants, and subsidies." Prince George, B.C. - Former British Columbia provincial court judge David Ramsay has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting young aboriginal women. Earlier Tuesday, Ramsay abjectly apologized to the young women he sexually assaulted, some of them as young as 12. Vancouver - NDP Leader Jack Layton stands by remarks he made last week that Liberal Leader Paul Martin was responsible for the deaths of some homeless people in Canada. He insisted, that Martin, as minister of finance, made "choices to cut taxes" and "as a consequence, some homeless ended up on the street and dying."
