Editor: It鈥檚 interesting to listen to the pro-HST radio advertisements. One of them states that the anti-HST forces are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and another has people stating that they have no reason to not believe that the government wouldn鈥檛 stand behind the current legislation to reduce the HST to 10 per cent.
This ad is supposed to make you think that the HST is being reduced as soon as the Liberals are re-elected. The Liberals are the ones who said that the HST was not on their radar, but as soon as they were re-elected 鈥� it was full steam ahead on the HST.
In recent pro-HST radio commercials, the only wool that is being pulled over our eyes is the wool pro-HST is using. They imply that the HST is being reduced to 10 per cent (and they make it sound like it happens immediately after the current governing party is re-elected). This is very deceptive.
The reduction may or may not take place, as we have not yet had an election. Keep in mind, if the reduction does in fact happen, it will not be this year. In 2012, it is supposed to go down one per cent. It won鈥檛 be 10 per cent until 2014, if ever.
It is not happening immediately, and it may not happen at all. The plan to reduce the HST to 10 per cent depends entirely on the next provincial election. The referendum may play a role, but if the current government is brought back into power, they may or may not proceed with the reduction to 10 per cent, as promised.
Legislation can be changed, as we know. They can promise until the cows come home, but as soon as they have achieved power as the next government, they can change anything they want. That鈥檚 what we saw under the previous Gordon Campbell government.
It had no plans to bring in the HST, but once the 2009 election was over, the HST was implemented. Do you really think that our current government, after that example was set, will ensure that the HST will be reduced to 10 per cent by 2014? The spin doctors have been hard at work to confuse us.
D. Atkinson,
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