Follow along as we attempt to verify their statements, despite the interruptions.
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Yes, it’s a term that’s popped up before, but not alongside loaded (and bogus) refugee claims.
“We have a prime minister who prefers to pander to fears”, he said.
Students, provinces, investors and unions are taking action.
Halfway through the campaign, and still in a three-way stalemate, Canada’s party leaders held a chippy and sometimes chaotic debate in Calgary Thursday as they jockeyed for a decisive breakout moment that didn’t come. It seemed there was a lot more yelling and interrupting this time around. But what leader could, with all that shouting? At least, it wasn’t so simple for this fact checker.
And much of the debate was like an extended political commercial with the messages the leaders wanted to convey.
Hard to say, as it largely depends on your definition of “the worst”. “For the Liberal party, for me a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian and it will always stay that way”.
But in 2005, the next year EDGAR provides data and three years after signing the Kyoto Protocol, Canada fell to tenth highest.
The three main party leaders attempted to build momentum for their visions to boost Canada’s ailing economy amid growing concern that party promises are based on budget numbers that are outdated and overly optimistic.
Chants of “four more years” competed with “Harper’s gotta go” and “just not ready” and “Trudeau!”
Then he said: “This is the time to invest in your hometown, Mr. Harper“.
The Conservative leader took jibes from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair who blamed the Conservative government for losing 400,000 manufacturing jobs and the government’s reliance on resource extraction.
Sharp-elbowed exchanges and three leaders talking over one another marked the early going in a crucial election debate on the economy. Annual GDP growth also fell steadily during those years from 2.6 per cent in 2006 to -2.7 per cent in 2009. That catastrophe, and not anything the federal government did, is the only reason there were any emission reductions in Canada.
“These guys would have had, in the last two weeks, us throwing open our borders and literally hundreds of thousands of people coming without any kind of security check or documentation”, Harper said.
“They will no longer need a document confirming their status as United Nations convention refugees”, said Alexander. So did the 2008/09 recession.
But despite the plunge in oil prices it was announced this week that Canada – the world’s fifth-largest oil producer – posted its first budget surplus since 2008.
On Friday, CBC journalist Hannah Thibedeau gave Harper – who did not take reporters’ questions after the debate this week – a chance to elaborate.
Harper appeared to be referring to the 2009 “Clean Energy Fund”, intended to foster research and development. And while the Governor General would have some say in the matter, we’d be in uncharted territory in determining how to replace a government that tried to ignore the will of voters and the MPs they elected.
“We are living in a very challenging global economy”.
True, with some caveats. “The big advantage of water over copper and zinc or iron is that once the metal comes out of the ground, it doesn’t come back”. “You didn’t know what you were doing, when you voted for it?” “It starts with investing in Canada once again, in roads, in clean water, in transit, in jobs”.
“For the first time in our history, there is another choice”, said Mulcair. In 2008, the federal Liberals attacked him in a press release for his water-exporting views.
When asked if he thought the majority of Canadians were on his side or with the Conservatives, Trudeau replied that the Charter “defends Canadians from a state that might wish to go too far. The means of achieving that result can vary and that was the object of a discussion, a debate”.
“There is so much stigma around refugees not contributing, which not well-founded at all”.
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The Conservatives have previously attacked the NDP on their cap-and-trade idea, calling it a carbon tax.
