I am proud of being Canadian and do not agree with Harper’s ongoing degradation of our democratic values.
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“Surprisingly, Mr. Mulcair recently announced ‘conditions’ that never existed until recently regarding his participation in debates”.
Harper, for his part, has rejected the traditional debates run by a consortium of the major broadcasters. As a result, an overwhelming number of Canadians said very clearly they want to hear more of what Ms. May has to say.
“Do we really think Stephen Harper would boycott debates 10 days before the election?”
Or at least, it’s certainly enough to keep the philosophical right at home… not that they were about to dash off and vote for Tom Mulcair or Justin Trudeau, anyway. “A lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground”, she said.
The Liberal leader vowed to clean up the prime minister’s “mess”, accusing Harper of leading the “most secretive, divisive and hyper-partisan government in Canada’s history”.
Up for Debate says this will be the first debate of its kind since the 1984 campaign, when then-party leaders Ed Broadbent, Brian Mulroney and John Turner participated in a debate focused on women’s issues.
As for the 905, those and other NDP sources suggested their party will target Brampton and Oshawa, where their provincial cousins hold their lone pair of seats (and which respectively have potentially supportive Indo-Canadian communities and strong organized-labour roots).
Although the Conservatives’ announcements so far may not be grand in scope – home renovation and apprentice tax credits, banned travel to extremist-controlled zones (still to be defined), money for persecuted religious minorities – the message they are trying to convey is quite clear.
He said keeping “dangerous and destructive” drugs away from children and youth “isn’t a point of debate; it’s simply the right thing to do”.
She told HuffPost that this is further proof the NDP and the Tories don’t want her in the debates. But what I will not vote for is a party that is led by an autocratic leader.
Enlightened Canadians should be proud of the three progressives Justin Trudeau, Elizabeth May, and Thomas Mulcair.
Confusion, nevertheless, continued to reign Tuesday.
On Sunday, Harper said a newly-elected Conservative government would introduce a legal crackdown on so-called terror tourism and go after Canadians who travel to such areas.
British Columbia is a battleground province in this federal election – and there are only two parties actually fighting it out – the governing Conservatives and the official opposition New Democrats.
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The disruption was brief and relatively amicable; at least one of the protesters reappeared during the book-signing portion of Mulcair’s event to pose for a photo with the NDP leader. Thus we can expect Mulcair to be just as vague as his Liberal counterpart in terms of foreign policy, and in doing so attempt to glide on past NDP policy stances without necessarily having to state them anew.
