The Harper Conservatives, supported by the Dion Liberals, are promising to give a $50 billion four year tax cut to profitable corporations.

This follows sizeable corporate tax cuts that both have already benn given reducing Canada to one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the G8 countries, significantly below our U.S. counterparts.

Still, they want to give $50 billion more. Jack Layton says no, just as Obama in the U.S. is saying no to a $300 billion corporate tax cut McCain wants for corporations.

If corporate tax cuts worked we would not see thousands of good paying jobs lost in our industrial and forest sectors as corporations either shut down, or ship our jobs elsewhere taking their tax reward with them.

Layton's NDP says this $50 billion dollars would be better invested in people and towards infrastructure, education, health care, or invested into targeted corporate activity that will help the environment and create, not shed, jobs.

It is also this $50 billion saving that makes the NDP election platform more affordable to your pocket book than either the budget breaking Dion Liberal platform or the unknown Harper platform.

Election rhetoric aside, there is little difference in the Liberals and Conservative economic approaches.

It's only the Layton NDP that will deliver change.

Either the NDP for smart progressive change or Dion or Harper for no real change. Your choice.

Ron Brydges

St. Catharines