Leadnow.ca, in its Vote Together campaign, is encouraging voters in 31 hotly-contested swing ridings across Canada to throw their support behind the candidate the group perceives to be the strongest non-Conservative candidate in each swing riding in order to stop the Harper Conservatives from forming another government.
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Monday was the fourth and final day of advance polls for this election.
Last weekend, Mulcair vehemently ruled out propping up a Stephen Harper-led minority government under any circumstances.
To be sure, Trudeau was able to conjure up a few memorable moments during the debates, summoning the shade of his late father (although, do to be fair, only doing so after the topic had been broached by his opponents), turning the niqab debate into a choice between “fear and hope” and, politically at least, pledging his troth to the interests of Canada’s middle class. Harper meanwhile has stuck with a stay the course, experience vs. the unknown vernacular.
If the current poll results worry Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, another number represents his biggest obstacle: 170, the number of seats it takes to win a majority in the Commons. The outcome of that would normally either be a new election or a possible new government formed by one or more parties, such as the Liberals or the NDP. It is only the anti-Conservatives who talk or post anything political, and 8/10 times it uses hateful language, is demonizing and borderlines on extremism. His style is anchored in the old way of practising politics.
“The difference is this – and it’s very simple for Torontonians or everybody else – everything that we are promising is within a balanced budget that is affordable and deliverable”.
The dig clearly still smarts. Trudeau seems inclined to support it, with Mulcair insisting that an NDP government would not be bound by the deal.
The whole thing got me to thinking about the biblical verse Joshua 9:23, “you are cursed, and you shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water”. I know what my priority is.
Now Thomas Mulcair’s New Democrats, who have watched in dismay as their national polling numbers erode, have unveiled an initiative called “Building a Better B.C”.
Stephen Harper was in Etobicoke-Lakeshore.
Kevin Grandia ran an online campaign in 2008 to encourage strategic voting against Harper.
In terms of policy, the NDP have staked out positions on trade, security and the environment that would make co-operation with the Liberals a rocky affair.
Under conditions where both the unions and the NDP have moved sharply to the right, presiding over the implementation of wage cuts and job cuts and the dismantling of the welfare state programs they once held up as proof that capitalism could be “humanized”, the NDP and the Liberals have become ever more closely allied.
In front of dozens of supporters in a warehouse at William F. White global, Harper claimed “the Liberals think Canadians should pay more tax”.
Tom Mulcair started his day in the Conservative-held riding of Oshawa this morning.
Over about 63 years in power, the Liberals of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jean Chretien and Louis St-Laurent witnessed a weighted compound annual growth rate of 6.8 per cent for the Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index and its predecessor TSE Index.
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Thrown off by millennial voters who don’t own home-based telephones, polls over the last several elections, like Alberta (twice), Ontario and the 2012 US presidential race, have all erred severely to the right. He personally thanked the NDP leader, but made it clear his gratitude was not meant to be a political endorsement.
