However, in its election platform issued last Friday, the NDP went further. First, progressive “change voters” are moving from the NDP to the Liberals.
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Mulcair uses the number 35 – the number of Conservative seats needed to flip his way for him to leap frog Harper, but that presupposes that every single seat held by his party returns to the NDP.
“You do have a choice – multiple choices”, Trudeau said. “I challenge Mr. Trudeau to start taking on Stephen Harper”. It is an axiom of sound tax policy that income should be taxed as it is consumed, not as it is saved.
In aligning Canada with Washington’s military-strategic offensives against Russian Federation and China and in the Middle East, Harper and his Conservatives have only continued on the course blazed by their Liberal predecessors. That’s the root of the problem, and it’s unlikely to change no matter who’s elected.
It has been renewed several times since, most recently in 2011 to the end of next year.
Their endorsement was made according to polling research they themselves have funded. The Conservatives have been found guilty of breaking electoral rules on numerous occasions – exceeding spending limits, accepting illegal donations and placing robo calls meant to suppress voting by non-supporters.
“Nothing is happening for Mulcair right now”. No matter that their share of the national income and wealth has soared during the past three decades as the result of the double-bounty of spectacular income growth and massive tax cuts.
Global News Ipsos Reid poll: The poll conducted by Global News between October. 9-13 places the Liberals in the lead with the support of 37 per cent of decided voters, the Conservatives have 31 per cent support, the NDP at 24 per cent, followed by the Bloc at five per cent and the Green party at two per cent support.
34 percent of those who took part in the survey supported the Liberals, 31 percent the Conservatives, 30 percent the NDP and six percent the Green Party.
This comprises only a short list of ways this current government has shortchanged all the girls and women in Canada. If people are buying into that message – and I think they are starting to – it’s reasonable to assume that they are headed the Liberals’ way more so than the NDP.
In December 2008, the NDP agreed to join a Liberal-led coalition government committed to “fiscal responsibility”, implementing a Liberal-Conservative plan to slash corporate taxes by $50 billion over 5 years, and waging war in Afghanistan through 2011. Repeating the fact that the federal party has no control over the provincial government fails to win support.
The 2008 coalition negotiations were mentored by Chretien and former federal NDP leader and party “elder statesman” Ed Broadbent. They initially tried to govern, but were immediately defeated on a vote of confidence by an alliance of Liberals and the NDP. Harper – who has taken to demonstrating the alleged cost of Liberal policies with the help of legal tender and sound effects (CHA-CHING!) – told a rally in Etobicoke on Tuesday that Ari would pay an additional $5,500 per year toward for employment insurance premiums and the Canada Pension Plan under a Liberal government.
So how can this play out in B.C.?
Federally, Liberal Paddy Torsney held the riding during the Chretien-Martin years, and Tory Bill Kempling from 1979 to 1993. They are concerned that the Conservatives’ fear-mongering and stoking of bigotry and backwardness will incite popular opposition, potentially providing the catalyst for the eruption of working class opposition to austerity and war. To cite but one example: in 1993, Chretien denounced the Conservatives for their “fixation” with eliminating the budget deficit and promised instead to focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs”.
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“We have no intention of cutting from the public service”.
