They have managed to bleed traditional Liberal support from those communities by spending oodles of time and energy playing to the (conservative) traditional family values of those communities, to their suspicion of big government and their entrepreneurship.
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The government said it will speed the processing of Syrian refugees by no longer requiring them to prove their refugee status through the United Nations refugee agency.
The NDP has promised to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, and another additional 9,000 a year for the next four years.
That hurdle, which the Conservatives imposed in a previous round of refugee reforms, has been removed.
“I’m an expatriate and the Harper government won’t let expatriates participate in Canadian elections”, Sutherland wrote in the Globe and Mail. “By partnering with angling, hunting, and conservation groups, we can ensure that our conservation efforts are good for the environment and good for local economies”.
A recent poll showed just under half of Canadians were ready to accept more than 30,000 Syrian refugees.
Elizabeth May of the Green Party has already said she is prepared to be the mediator between the NDP and the Liberals to form a coalition government.
In Canada, the refugee crisis became central issue in the ongoing federal election after heartbreaking photos of Alan Kurdi – the three-year-old Syrian boy whose drowned body washed up on a Turkish beach dressed in a red shirt and velcro shoes – blazed across the media and into the national conscience earlier this month. “You’ve been wonderful to the whole country“, said Gretzky, before he was interrupted by the cheers of the partisan crowd, who jumped to their feet applauding. “He has refused to provide leadership on this issue, continually hiding behind fear mongering and bureaucratic roadblocks”. We can all recall an outrage-causing statement that wasn’t about the words said, but the context that cast it in a odd , politically potent light.
One example was the rapid Conservative response to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program scandal of past year .
“We would lift the cap on private sponsorships, eliminate quotas and bureaucratic obstacles, and treat refugees equally”. Then Harper asked Gretzky if he happened to have any advice for him on leadership and rather than answer the question, he uttered the above quote. New Democrats and Liberals jumped on the comment, alleging Harper is dividing Canadians by suggesting citizens can be characterized in separate categories.
“We will have more human resources hitting the ground in the coming days and weeks” to process the applicants, he said.
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Independent candidate Steve Ranta said much of Canada’s deficit results from a shift away in the 1970s to using the Bank of Canada to fund infrastructure projects at zero per cent. He cited the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform, which wants to return to that.
