Mulcair is spending the day in the Toronto-area with a rally in Mississauga this evening.
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Lewis, who is also a former Ontario NDP leader, represented Canada at the UN in the 80s and was the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 until 2006. CBCnews.ca is carrying that event live.
The federal Liberals put on a display of economic star power Tuesday as voters watched jittery world markets and Justin Trudeau faced unrelenting Conservative attack ads that portray him as weak on the economy.
‘Stephen Harper’s economic team can fit in a very small room.
“The Conservatives recognized that there were gaps in the Liberal-created New Veterans Charter and we have closed many of them”.
He also said the Conservative plan includes balanced budgets.
The New Democrats propose a national day-care plan, the Conservatives stick with their increased benefits program and child-care cheques and the Liberals come up the middle pledging to rejig those benefits so that only those who truly need the money benefit.
Harper defended the unusual nature of publicly reporting on a phone conversation with Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz yesterday, and rejected criticism he was playing politics.
He had been asked why his party would decriminilize marijuana rather than do what Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party say they would do, which is to legalize it. Decriminalizing marijuana A leading advocate for a changed approach to marijuana in Canada is Dana Larsen, who founded the Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize cannabis possession and in 2010 ran for the leadership of the B.C. NDP.
“Small businesses like the one that we’re visiting here today, now account for 30 per cent of our country’s GDP and employ almost eight million Canadians”, Mulcair said while standing in front of a Hamilton business. “They are the job creators in our country”, he said.
Former prime minister Paul Martin was pressed into service, a not-so-subtle attempt to remind voters that as finance minister under Jean Chretien he oversaw the elimination of the federal deficit.
“Growing the economy is a team sport. The one thing that every single one of my candidates will be, is not the prime minister’s voice in their communities, which is what we get now right across the country, but their communities’ voice in Ottawa”.
For the Liberals in particular, talking about veterans is a way into talking about issues the Conservatives usually perceive as their strength – foreign policy and defence, said Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, an associate professor of political science at Queens University in Kingston, Ont.
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He blamed Harper for manufacturing job losses and a less diversified economy. You know what? Most wealthy people work hard and are some of the biggest donors to hospitals and charities in Canada.
