Counter Coyne |
Re Amidst The Balloons, A White Flag, Andrew Coyne, March 23.
Mr. Coyne complains that Canadians must choose "between parties that are eager to expand the state, and parties that will do so reluctantly." When the Liberals took office in 1993, federal public spending was 16% of Gross Domestic Product. The 2005 budget holds this figure below 12% until 2010, its lowest level since 1950. Far from expanding eagerly or reluctantly, the Canadian state has contracted. Mr. Coyne is able to claim that the Conservatives mirror "Liberal values" only because the Liberals have shifted so far to the right.
ERIN M. K. WEIR
Kingston