He has mostly stuck by the Liberals’ vote in favor of Bill C-51 (though they now say they will revise the law). “An unemployed person is not interested in whether the budget is balanced”. Court decisions over Harper’s term as prime minister have forced the Conservatives to confront hard social and moral questions about drug use, prostitution and doctor-assisted suicide.
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Harper went to Fredericton to try to shore up support for Conservative MPs in New Brunswick. The Interview attack ad could have been jointly commissioned by the Conservatives and the NDP. If Mulcair keeps saying we need change from Stephen Harper, then Harper should be the focus. Harper said. “It is the old culture of the “Sponsorship Scandal”. A Liberal government would also enhance Compassionate Care Benefits to make it easier to care for a seriously ill family member. His gamble with the long campaign-it will be more than double the length of the previous two-was that the Conservatives could use their considerable fundraising advantage to beat back the threat posed by the traditionally progressive New Democratic Party, led by Thomas Mulcair, which held just under a third of the three hundred and eight seats in Parliament at dissolution, and the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, which had barely a tenth.
“There are a huge number of issues that have to be dealt with quickly and so clearly the more planning you’ve done, the faster you can work through it”, he said in a interview.
“Ours is the only plan that will invest now in what people need – things like transit and affordable housing”, he said. At a Hindu temple in Markham, he promised if elected to foster better relations with India.
The Conservative Party produced a campaign ad suggesting that Justin Trudeau had potential but was “just not ready”.
Lavigne, who had worked for the lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton, insisted Friday that the information on the Ontario registry is a mistake and that he deregistered and quit the firm in May. Western Canada may feel more integral to Canadian interests than at any time since Sir John A. Macdonald sent a railway to the Pacific to bring it into the fold.
Trudeau continued to field questions on Dan Gagnier.
And, with such a strong showing of advance voter turnout at 3.6 million Canadians voting already – a 71 per cent increase from last election – Elections Canada spokesperson Diane Benson said in an email it will take “a bit more time” to count the votes.
Trudeau said it’s important that he have advisers and officials around him from a wide variety of careers and industries.
He said no one else on his campaign team was offering party-related advice to business clients.
The effect is that Trudeau has surged ahead by gaining both the Liberal “government in waiting” vote and the NDP core vote that responds to left wing button pushing.
“And when it came to light that one of our volunteers – a senior volunteer, obviously – had engaged in an inappropriate activity, we took responsibility for it. He assumed the consequences of the action and he stepped down from our campaign”.
Harper faced plenty of grilling on the campaign trail about what he did and didn’t know about his closest aides’ involvement in the Duffy repayment scheme.
A week or so before the start of the federal election campaign, an item was carried in The Daily Mail, a British newspaper that has built an vast circulation on a diet of celebrities, scoundrels and adorable animals. Writing in The New Yorker in 1969, Edith Iglauer described the elder Trudeau’s maiden election campaign as Liberal leader: “His every quip made the headlines, and he was photographed dancing in the streets and kissing his way across the country….”
“Any slide by the NDP could signal that one’s going to go Liberal”, said Maggi.
The Liberals’ main opponents see the Gagnier affair as an opening to score points in the final days of the campaign. Mulcair was asked if his party had lobbyists working on its campaign. Well, last week’s Mainstreet/Postmedia poll for Saskatchewan showed the Conservatives at 43 per cent (among decided voters) compared with 30 per cent for the NDP and 23 per cent for Liberals.
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With Trudeau in the running for prime minister, it emerged that former US president Richard Nixon once predicted that Justin Trudeau would someday become Canada’s political leader.
