Would any of us sell our children into slavery to feed our appetite for good things today?

Only a self-centred, uncaring, heartless person would do such a thing. What kind of life-threatening, desperate situation would you or I have to be in before agreeing to something like that?

The Prime Minister recently announced at the World Economic Forum that the theme for the upcoming G20 summit in Toronto this June is to be "Recovery and New Beginnings."

What kind of "New Beginnings" is he talking about? He reiterated at the economic forum that to feed our appetite for good things today, his government will be borrowing from our children and grandchildren's future—otherwise euphemistically known as "stimulus spending." Our children's future, rather than being one of hope, will be servitude to high levels of government taxation as they pay back our debt. What kind of parent would do that to their children?

So what life-threatening, desperate situation is our Prime Minister in that makes him willing to increase the burden of debt, already resting heavily on our grandchildren, beyond the current $500 billion? The "New Beginning" he now endorses is that of G20 nations increasing their national debts as a means to correct economic downturns worldwide. Mr Harper has discovered his latent inner socialist: that if you promise to give people something…from the government… they are deluded into thinking that it needn't be paid back. We eagerly grasp the gifts of the government without considering that somebody, someday, will have to repay the debt. Mr Harper's desperate situation is retaining the power which he has come to enjoy. Maybe enough gifts on the backs of our children will buy him a majority government.

Canada needs a new beginning. But the 'new beginning' that Canada needs is only found in CHP Canada's approach to economic recovery which would:

• allow the market to correct itself
• seek to downsize government
• reduce corporate and business tax
• protect national interests over global ones
• stop borrowing money from chartered banks
• utilize the Bank of Canada to create interest free money for infrastructure

Paying off debt is always more painful than borrowing. Why should our grandchildren's future be stolen to pay for reckless government spending today? Choose accountability. For Better Solutions visit www.chp.ca.