Throne Speech Panned

Yesterday, the Harper government laid out its plan to whittle away the projected record $56-billion federal budget deficit.

There are no plans for major spending cuts in the throne speech, but there's also none of the big new spending of past budgets.

The Speech from the Throne doesn't sit well with Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty.

He says it doesn't have much when to comes to the forest industry.

"Six-thousand words was the throne speech," says Rafferty. "Twenty-six recycled words in a mention for forestry and no clear direction."

Rafferty does agree with a move to freeze MP salaries.