The battle for Quebec is a four-way race with the Liberals enjoying a small lead with 29 per cent over the Conservatives with 26 per cent, the NDP at 24 per cent and the Bloc at 20 per cent. Wright said one irony of this election has been the approval ratings for the government have been relatively strong at 43 per cent. “It doesn’t make sense”. Supporters, staff and journalists crammed into the upstairs loft above an enormous grocery store built in an old CN railway locomotive shop, where the store sells pints of Ontario craft beer and glasses of wine. Mr. Trudeau lightly expressed his position in favour of religious rights and quickly changed the subject, while the controversy clung to Mr. Mulcair, who had to reiterate his stand each time one of his francophone candidates dissociated himself from the party’s position (during their door-to-door campaigning, several NDP candidates had discovered to their horror that they could be defeated on this single issue).
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The Liberal government also plans to take advantage of low interest rates as a way to borrow to invest more in infrastructure. “This campaign is different because of the information we’re providing, the volunteer resources going into it. We’re mobilizing people to talk to each other to have face-to-face conversations that can actually have an impact on election day”. However the last week of this campaign seems to have been spent by the candidates urging us to remember who they aren’t rather than who they are.
Trudeau didn’t elaborate on Harper’s alleged interference.
While responding to a reporter’s question in Toronto, Trudeau said: “I have worked very, very hard over the past three years, but specifically over the past 10 months – uh, 10 weeks”.
This evening Mulcair went out to Brampton another part of the GTA where the Conservatives grabbed seats four years ago that might be in play now.
Indeed, they might as well: an EI that is not based on insurance principles is just a spending program like any other.
Former Liberal leader Stephane Dion angered many in his party when he agreed for the 2008 election not to run a candidate in Central Nova, where Green party Leader Elizabeth May was challenging Conservative Peter MacKay.
This 78-day campaign-the longest in Canadian history-has helped the Liberals in other ways, too. The long campaign also let Trudeau sharpen his message to better explain policies such as tax increases for the wealthy and the Liberals’ support in the House for C-51, the Conservatives’ heavily criticized national security legislation. Trudeau said that his party would examine “a mandatory expansion of the CPP, of the type that Kathleen Wynne put forward in Ontario”.
A tax cut for middle class families would be the first order of business for a Liberal government, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told a rally in the suburban Toronto riding of Don Valley North on Friday.
“Aside from all of their policies, that is”. Because the platform says it will accomplish this by partnering with provincial and territorial governments, it’s not clear how any of this will work. The daughter of the late Burnaby-Richmond New Democrat MP Bob Prittie, she remembers having to give up her bedroom in the 1960s when party icon Tommy Douglas was in town. Still, a few people have concerns. The eighties were barren years for the party in this province as it held just one seat for nearly 15 years.
“I think support has grown for us in Sault Ste”.
NDP support in Quebec has always been quite soft, however. “That’s almost $2,000 per year per child under the age of six and over $700 for children between 6 and 17, gone”.
The Sault riding is represented by Conservative incumbent Bryan Hayes, challenged by the NDP’s Skip Morrison, Liberal Terry Sheehan, the Green Party’s Kara Flannigan and Marxist-Leninist Mike Taffarel.
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Meanwhile the Conservatives have held onto their base while the Liberals, who were lagging early on, are now looking very competitive.
