BAY STREET • The Canadian Alliance platform has received a key endorsement from the Business Church of Self-Interest (BCSI), the country's most important business group which includes almost every local branch plant CEO of the world's largest corporations. BCSI president, Thomas Accutto said his group had analysed the vital economic impact of all five party platforms and "we came to the conclusion that the Alliance platform, 'Time for a Chainsaw,' is not only economically sound, several cuts above the rest."

"We applaud the Alliances clearcut policy on taxation, which leaves no stump unturned and flattens large areas of higher elevation taxes. This plan allows the country's leading corporations and CEOs to get on with their important job of creating wealth for themselves and making world class profits to send back to their offshore head offices," said Accutto.

But hacking down taxes is just the beginning according to Accutto, "what particularly impressed us was their patented chainsaw approach to program spending. Just to list a few that would fall under the Alliance axe: cuts to the environment, cuts to education, cuts to national healthcare standards, cuts to housing, cuts to cultural funding, cuts to employment insurance, cuts to job training, cuts to regional development and, last but not least, the CBC would finally be on the chopping block."

"We think their plan to harvest these low-priority, non-essential, ineffective, wasteful, unimaginative, innovation-stultifying programs in order to fuel exciting, high-octane, entrepreneurial, job-spinning, internet-savvy, high-income tax cuts is a masterstroke of economic genius that all Canadians should applaud at the ballot box," enthused Accutto.

Accutto explained that "bank presidents have a difficult job what with all their downsizing of employees, dreaming-up of mergers, tallying of billion dollar profits, manufacturing of new service charges, royal screwing of little guys, and cashing of multi-million dollar stock options, so they really, really deserve a $250,000 tax cut on their $2 million dollar salary."

"Canada's top flight CEO's will especially be needing a large tax cut this year because they have been selflessly investing in the country's future by purchasing many $25,000 plates at Stockwell Day fundraisers," added Accutto.

Under the Alliance program, the solid gold cuts will just keep on coming because they've promised to completely flatten taxes, which will ensure an accelerated lack of funding in the future for anything that remotely resembles a government program. They've even suggested getting rid of federal taxes altogether and forcing the government of Canada to beg for money from the provinces-- now that puts the axe back in taxes!

Accutto warned voters not to be fooled by the Liberal's proposed $100 billion tax-cut because "it is just a pale pink imitation of the true-blue-and-green, slash-and-burn Canadian Alliance platform. Any real CEO would just scoff at such a weak-kneed, wishy-washy $100 billion quasi-plan and so should you."