Offering safe haven to refugees is not enough, the prime minister said during a campaign stop in Markham, Ont.
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But in terms of performance, it was perhaps Trudeau – admittedly he had the lowest bar to clear – who surprised the most, coming across as scrappy, eloquent and well-briefed.
Trudeau has trailed in third place in current polls after Harper’s Conservatives have run repeated assault advertisements saying the 43-year-old just isn’t prepared for the job. The Conservatives find themselves in a virtual three-way race with the NDP and the Liberals.
He pledged that an NDP government would bring in sustainable development legislation, including a polluter pay system where companies that damage the environment are responsible for cleanup costs.
“People thought he would get blown away, and he was toe-to-toe with the others”, Taras said.
For Google and Twitter, the leader whose name came up the most was Justin Trudeau, the Liberal leader, edging out Conservative leader Stephen Harper in Twitter mentions, and pulling in twice the number of Google searches. Johnston, that a longer campaign period was required because of the need for voters to consider the important issues at stake, chiefly the unstable global economic situation and a terrorist menace he said is posed by ISIS terrorists and other extremists in Syria and Iraq.
Elizabeth May appeared to be a politician in command of major issues and demonstrated understanding that was surprising.
Taras’ assessment? “You know it’s over when they start talking like that”.
But Trudeau saved his harshest words for Harper.
Church says one of the biggest spikes in search volume was after Trudeau and Mulcair had an exchange about energy east.
“They exclude me from the debate and then talk for 30 minutes about the (referendum) rules they are going to impose on us”.
“Nine”, said Trudeau, meaning the nine justices of the Supreme Court.
Mulcair can’t change this position, which he inherited from Jack Layton, who adopted it in 2006 in an attempt to appeal to the soft nationalists who backed the Bloc Quebecois.
During his familiar stump speech, the NDP leader declared that Harper’s approach has been a failure – leaving the middle class struggling to make ends meet.
Harper piled on and accused Mulcair of placating separatists.
“They want to roll out on more of a marathon approach, slow steady pace, introducing the leader [first] and the policies at the appropriate time”, Wieder says.
With the shadow of the Mike Duffy trial looming larger than ever, Stephen Harper is kicking off Week 2 of the federal election campaign with a headline-grabbing effort to crack down on homegrown terror threats.
Mulcair, whose party has never held power at the federal level, said that Canada had lost 400,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs. “Honestly, Mr. Harper, we can not afford another four years of you”.
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“Alberta’s previous government had a very limited carbon price that was a tech fund for within the industry, funding a tech fund”, Harper said.
