Making some expensive promises

Dear Editor,

What strikes me in the federal election campaign is how far Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair will go in seeking your vote. These men are making multi-billion dollar promises every few days involving just about everything from housing, daycare, education, transportation, manufacturing, energy and so on.

The NDP states it would also balance the budget while the Liberals say they will run $10-billion annual deficits over four years.

Both party leaders will tax corporations and bring in either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system on us all for carbon emissions.

What these leaders forget is that in a very competitive world economy, we can easily price ourselves out of the market for investment and jobs by making the cost of doing business in Canada too high.

We are only 35 million people and Mr. Mulcair and Mr. Trudeau should not risk Canadian jobs by tinkering with our economy just to get elected. It is irresponsible.

Chris Topple