But polls, as we know in BC, can be wrong. And interestingly, the biggest change has been your position on deficits.
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Rather than try and scare me into not voting for the other folks, I want my political leaders to sell me on their vision. I quote our local Conservative candidate Mel Arnold, “The agreement (Kyoto Accord) may have been over ambitious in light that Canada produces only two per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions”. So how do you square that?
Justin Trudeau on energy issues.
“We’re going to invest right away in our communities, in public transit”, he said on Wednesday afternoon. The government-led CAP initiative provided both internet access and training for new users in thousands of libraries and community centres across the country. You live in Toronto. We can do better.
Trudeau: Well, because the economy needs growth.
In a crowded banquet hall in British Columbia’s second-largest city, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is firing up about 300 supporters, forging on with a lively partisan speech despite three, successive interruptions from environmental protesters hidden in the audience.
Trudeau: But he hasn’t been able to create growth because at the same time that he’s done that, he’s given benefits and tax breaks to the wealthiest Canadians instead of investing in the middle class. But they also have long memories.
In his presentation he looked at the number of undecided voters, which was only around 11.8%, and then identified a distinction between ridings that were already “clinched” (already safe to assume which party would win here) versus other ridings still in play.
Trudeau is the third federal party leader to visit Niagara since an October. 19 election was called 10 weeks ago.
With Bill S-7 and the Niqab debate, they’re saying that immigrants are suspicious looking people who practice “barbaric cultural practices”, like polygamy or wearing clothes that have a q but-and this is the terrifying part-no u.
It’s a small audience, but every set of ears counts in an election that is so much more uncertain this time, so much harder to get a read on – even for a strong incumbent like Wallace. So it’s accusations of the “old boys club” all over again.
“In all areas, we hold our campaign to the highest ethical standards”.
LaFlamme: So you have today, he has stepped down as a result of… Isn’t that hostile relationship counter-productive somehow to the campaign of hope that you are campaigning on? I’ve met Canadians of all different backgrounds and stories.
On September 26, the Stephen Harper government, with predictable bluster, revoked the citizenship of Zakaria Amara. But I’ve never engaged in personal, negative attacks or disparaging remarks.
I wore the shorts on the flight to Jakarta and when I got off the plane, my dad took me straight home to change. Why are you so reluctant?
Last month, Vote Compass, CBC’s online voter engagement survey, found that 72 per cent of Canadians of all political stripes said no when asked “whether immigrants should be allowed to cover their faces for religious reasons while taking the oath of citizenship”.
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“I think there’s more visceral antipathy towards the prime minister than there has been in the recent past, and that reflects itself in many Canadians desiring the opposition parties to collaborate in a few way constructively, to provide stability, but also to provide progressive change”. I think that’s important, particularly for the Liberal Party, to be a truly national party that we draw in votes from everywhere.
