The Tories have boosted the annual contribution limit for tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) to $10,000 from $5,500.
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Tom Mulcair’s party would cancel the Conservatives’ income-splitting plan for families, arguing it benefits only the wealthiest 15 per cent.
“The only party that is standing up for real change is the NDP”.
Here’s the biggest problem for Harper: If he does not secure a majority Conservative mandate, he can’t count on the Liberals or the New Democrats to prop him up and allow him to govern with a minority. It would cancel the TFSA increase.
“We’ve seen the consequences of a Liberal-Wynne government here in Ontario – massive tax-hikes, out of control spending, sky-high hydro bills, business closures, we don’t want that to happen across the country”.
He’s referring to Mulcair’s promise to balance the budget in the first year of an NDP government. But he deserves vast respect, as head of a party most of whose MPs are from Quebec, in taking on the challenge of this issue so spuriously promoted by the Conservatives.
The TPP is a trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim nations covering nearly 40 per cent of the global economy. But the demagogy and the cynicism of this government, particularly in pandering to elements that it had practically no chance of losing to its rivals, is a dismal episode which, whatever the election result, taints the record of the regime.
Oliver said Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau endorsed Wynne’s pension plan earlier this spring, which could be used as a model for the rest of the country if the Liberals come to power. It might be added that this election marked the end of a 42 year-long reign of Conservative government in the province.The relative difference both in seats and popular vote between the Liberals and New Democrats is not as great this time, but if the Liberals are able to sustain their superior position during the campaign’s remaining days, parliamentary tradition suggests they would be given the opportunity to form a government.
Mulcair says the NDP would define what Canada needs in a replacement for the CF-18s, and launch a process to get a fighter jet rapidly.
“It’s desperation”, said Ramal of Harper’s election campaign, which also included references to “barbaric cultural practices” aimed at Muslim Canadians.
The NDP would maintain the UCCB benefit increases.
NDP The NDP is promising to return OAS eligibility age to 65, and would invest an additional $400 million in the guaranteed income supplement for the poorest seniors.
It is astonishing that, with barely a week left before the federal election, pollsters seem to agree the principal issue between the main parties is whether the face-covering niqab can be worn by a handful of women when they take their oath as new citizens of Canada, having privately satisfied authorities of their identity. This week, Harper said a re-elected Conservative government would “examine” whether to prohibit public servants from wearing the niqab.
“The question of the niqab has been extremely damaging to the NDP’s vote”, he said. Mulcair has attacked Harper for inflaming emotions on what is a divisive issue.
The Liberals are strong around the Montreal area – which offers roughly 30 seats – and the Bloc and the NDP are fighting for votes in Quebec’s regions. This year’s New Liberals have borrowed a few old ideas – like running deficits to pay for social programs and job creation – right out of the traditional NDP playbook.
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The Trudeau and Chrétien governments embraced peacekeeping as a cover for reducing the defence budget and convincing gullible Canadians that their country was making a larger contribution to stability in the world than it was. His fixation on shrinking the federal government’s share of GDP and his preoccupation with fiscal prudence, while terribly rigid – he has become the pub bore of Canadian politics about them – is creditable.
