Hey Phil Where are the Jobs?

Looks like Harper the Economist still hasn't figured out how to run a country. Despite all those blue-and-green stimulus project signs, Brantford's unemployment rate hasn't improved since the recession:

When Phil was elected in 2008, unemployment was 5.9%. Within a year unemployment in Brant was 60% higher at 9.8% [source: StatsCan]. Coincidence?

Gretzky Centre Over Cost Because of Phil!

Phil was super-happy to brag all about the pork-barrel funding of the Gretzky Centre construction (in conjunction with Dave Levac). But the Harper government made an unreasonable deadline for using the money so that they could look good before an election. The deadline was eventually moved back, but the process had already been sped up. The shortened timeframe forced costs higher, and this was coupled with a bottleneck of contractors across Canada working on pork-barrel projects in Conservative-held ridings.

Pretty bad planning from a man who brags about being a contractor. Here's a replay of the Conservatives' moronic move:

Phil Blames the Liberals… again

When he comes under fire for poor performance, Phil McColeman's only response is "Blame the Liberals." In the world according to Phil, there is apparently a vast Liberal conspiracy to destroy him (and this non-partisan blog is part of that paranoid worldview).

Opposition MP John McCallum is planning to use Brant as an example of how the Conservatives messed up their stimulus spending of taxpayer dollars. McCallum read some comments by City Councilor Richard Carpenter in this Maclean's article. Aside from the irony of someone named CARPENTER calling out Phil the self-proclaimed renovation nut, Mr. Carpenter has some valid criticisms (which can be found in this blog post).

Phil's response? "The liberal machine trying to win points to show that the government is wasting government money in Brantford."

Mr. Carpenter was above all that. He responded that he wouldn’t get caught up in “the party politics games."

Actually, Phil & friends have been playing the "Blame the Liberals" card for years. See this post and this post for example. How about actually addressing the accusations next time??