The Conservatives say the Liberals would likely have to scrap, among other things, the child fitness credit, the children’s art credit and the volunteer firefighter tax credit.
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Introduced as “two great sons of Etobicoke Centre”, one of the ridings around Tuesday’s event, their presence was identified by the campaign as a reflection of broader support, the people who make up the so-called Ford Nation of conservative voters around the Toronto area. Eleanor McMahon won the riding for the party for the first time in 71 years.
But you don’t declare a three-time victor dead until you are counting votes, something confirmed by one Liberal MP who tossed out an exasperated “but you never know about that Harper gang….” after extolling the depths of Liberal organization under Trudeau.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday voters have multiple choices.
The Conservative strategy seems to be working. There was nothing new, just a sharpened case for what it will cost to vote Liberal.
Mulcair bobbed and weaved around renewed questions over the breadth and depth of possible co-operation between the Liberal and NDP leaders, who’ve both made it clear in no uncertain terms that they would defeat a Conservative minority at the first opportunity.
For months Leadnow has done door-to-door canvassing, while providing voters with that data. It used similar technology but with a larger sample size (665) and resulting lower error margin (3.7 percentage points).
Sault Ste. Marie is considered a swing riding by Leadnow.ca, and Vote Together organizers are urging NDP and Green Party supporters to “vote strategically” and support the Liberals in Sault Ste. Website visitors can collect and share the cards on social media.
Vox Pop Labs, a poll aggregator for the Toronto Star, has the Liberals further ahead, at nearly 55 per cent, with the other parties each below 20 per cent.
Leadnow officials said the organization, which posted both polls on its website, won’t decide until Thursday whether to endorse Oreck or Wilson-Raybould.
Critics of strategic voting say it seldom works.
Trottier said as he goes door-to-door, people are receptive to the message that they would suffer economically under the Liberal plan to run deficits. They helped the less fortunate and fought poverty…
Trying to cloak the NDP’s readiness to support the formation of a big business Liberal government in a semblance of principle, Mulcair declared last weekend that he will have “nothing to do with that Stephen Harper”, given his resort to “very unsafe race politics”-a reference to the Conservatives’ stoking of anti-Muslim sentiment through their anti-niqab campaign”.
“We’re looking at making significant gains in B.C.”, Glen Sanford, the party’s B.C. campaign director, told me. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has, too.
Martin, who held power for three years through a minority government, posted the best compound growth rate of any elected Liberal at 18 per cent. Resource stocks in the S&P/TSX surged as the Canadian economy wrestled with a weakened currency for much of their rule, along with the rise of China as a global economic power and the rapid rise of commodities prices from crude to gold.
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The NDP has stopped its bleeding and may be rebounding slightly and, although their standing on vote intention has been greatly diminished in recent weeks, the distribution of their support is fairly seat efficient.
