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No Winner Or Loser In First Federal Election Debate

“We need to find the reductions somewhere”, she said. There has to be a clear expectation of success and there has to be a reasonable justification of the specific action Canada’s taking.

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Harper said in the widely-mocked video, accusing his rivals of supporting the tax.

Thomas Mulcair did not hit the ball out of the debate park on Thursday but nor did he give non-NDP voters reasons to be spooked by the prospect of the first ever New Democrat federal government.

“Why does this group of despicable thugs put their horrific acts on YouTube? If they do nothing, we’d be pretty happy with it”.

“The objective in all of these things is to make sure we do maximum damage to Vladimir Putin and to the Russian economy while trying to minimize damages to our own”, Harper said.

Harper refused to say he was sorry for appointing Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, and Patrick Brazeau to the Senate. He goes on to say one of his favorites is the smash AMC hit Breaking Bad, which he informs watchers is available through streaming services. Abolition, pure and simple. Whatever rationale Mulcair is using, whether it’s to prevent more vote splitting between the NDP and Liberals, it’s in stark contrast to local NDP candidate Wayne Stetski’s challenge to Wilks to attend all the debates being organized in all the ridings. “Well, I think that’s wrong”.

And if you are a 2011 Conservative supporter who has been flirting with but has not yet committed to the notion of regime change, you may have found cause in Stephen Harper’s demeanour to reconsider throwing out his government. The NDP plan also envisages an increase in corporate tax rates.

“The approach that Mr. Harper has taken has not worked for Canadians”, Trudeau said. “Corporations are not”, he said. For Harper, this meant showing he could stoically withstand attacks on his record while not appearing related to hitchBOT. “He understands, as I do, that there needs to be a change, a shift from how the country has been run for the last 10 years”, said Sault Ste. “80 percent of the economy is healthy and and growing but we have a contraction in the oil sector that everyone knows is because of low oil prices”.

Changes have also blocked participation in the reviews, say critics, although the Harper government had accused environmentalists of hijacking the process with hundreds of participants.

But Green Party leader Elizabeth May, one of only two members of her party to hold seats in the House of Commons in the last Parliament, wasn’t as concerned about deficits, saying it was “the wrong time for austerity measures” amid a “weak and shrinking economy”.

Roughly 20 per cent said Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper did the best job in the debate.

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U of T News interviewed David Soberman, a professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and an expert on political advertising, to get his views on everything from the leaders’ body language to how they dealt with issues important to Canadians heading towards the October. 19 vote. Trudeau and Mulcair were both too happy to remind Harper that he can’t even acknowledge when Canada is in a recession, and thus may not be the best person to make bold statements on economic growth.

NDP Leader Tom Muclair