What to Cut

The government is cutting funds so fast I guess it is bound to make a few mistakes. Olympics are coming and we need more cash! Cut the funding for children's therapy! Big business wants to light up the north for mining and we need 400 million! Quick let's cut funding to the arts! Oh taxes are down and we are in a deficit! Okay let's stop providing help to the battered, abused and fearful women and children! Oh darn it! Maybe that was just too immoral... Okay we take it back.

Solicitor-General Kash Heed's office dropped a press release saying the government was backing away from the $440,000 cut to programs for family-violence victims -- mainly battered, abused and fearful women and children.

Full story: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Liberal%20backdowns%20just%20keep%20coming/2054175/story.html

Good on you Canadian government. So nice to see you care...