I wish the NDP would unleash some attack ads against Trudeau on this theme and his support of regressive.
The NDP barely has enough resources to target specific parties during election campaigns, let alone in the in-between period. If an ad is necessary, far better to spend its limited resources either promoting Mulcair or attacking both parties at the same time.
Bad news for the NDP out of Alberta, as Lewis Cardinal has had to step down as candidate in Edmonton Centre due to health and personal reasons.
I wish the NDP would unleash some attack ads against Trudeau on this theme and his support of regressive.The NDP barely has enough resources to target specific parties during election campaigns, let alone in the in-between period. If an ad is necessary, far better to spend its limited resources either promoting Mulcair or attacking both parties at the same time.
I agree..there's 2 parties...stop obsessing about the Liberals...We've got a bigger snake in the grass to take care of.
I feel bad for Lewis, he worked hard on the riding. I don't know who the NDP will find to take up the torch.
I feel bad for Lewis, he worked hard on the riding.
Yeah, that is unfortunate. I wish him well.
I don't know who the NDP will find to take up the torch.
Maybe Anne McClellan can be coached out of retirement? ;)
Jim Prentice or Jason Kenney - who is it going to be?
Daniel Turp se range derrière André Bellavance
http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/406047/chefferie-du-bloc-qu
Trudeau's lies are sickening. He acts more and more like Harper every day.
At least with the Cons you know what you are going to get. With the Liberals they lie so much you have no idea what you are going to get. Once thing is for sure though, and that is there is no way Trudeau represents working people, or even the middle class.
What happened to Trudeau's open nomination pledge?
A year ago this month, Justin Trudeau was a candidate for the Liberal Party leadership. He gave a big speech to delegates at what was called the “Liberal leadership showcase.”
Among other things, Trudeau said this: “The only person Mr. Harper wants his caucus to serve is their leader. Well, that’s not good enough. We need to be a party of community leaders, devoted to community service. That’s why I am calling for open nominations for all Liberal candidates in every single riding in the next election.”
“Open nominations” is political-speak. It basically means what the phrase implies: the selection of candidates is wide open, and there is no special treatment for supposed star candidates. In a true open nomination process, there are no barriers to anyone wanting to be a Liberal candidate – and, in particular, the leader stays out of it.
Trudeau made a big deal out of his open nomination pledge. No one asked him to. He did it, all on his own. In a speech after speech, in scrum after scrum, the newly minted Liberal Party leader said open nominations were the new way.
In a year-end interview with the Toronto Star: “Every candidate for the Liberal Party in 338 ridings in 2015, or whenever the election does come, will have been chosen in a free vote by the Liberal members of that riding.”
In a statement made just last month: “Open nominations, which I continue to be committed to and have always been committed to, is about letting local Liberals choose who is going to be their candidate in the next election.”
And even on the Liberal Party of Canada website: “Our Leader Justin Trudeau is committed to open nominations in all 338 ridings from coast to coast to coast.”
Well, that wasn’t true, was it? No. It was a lie.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/18/what-happened-to-trudeaus-open-nomi...
It's the Sun...You can't take anything Sun Media seriously....Not worth reading.
Actions speak louder than words..I'll wait for action before I call him a liar.
As if there is any media that does not have a vested interest in getting their party elected.
It was already clearly pointed out in the article how Trudeau just tells lies, lies, and more lies, and it is clear Trudeau does not have a democratic bone in his body.
My only question is how can a Liberel be so effective in exposing Trusdeu for the sleazebag liar he is, while the NDP seems helpless in doing so.
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Some of the things he has said and some of the Liberal platform is worth listening to.
As for being a liar,the next 18 months will answer that.
And trying to pack your caucus with 'star' candidates is common M.O. of all the parties..It's all about votes.
Trudeau's lies are sickening. He acts more and more like Harper every day.
At least with the Cons you know what you are going to get. With the Liberals they lie so much you have no idea what you are going to get. Once thing is for sure though, and that is there is no way Trudeau represents working people, or even the middle class.
What happened to Trudeau's open nomination pledge?
A year ago this month, Justin Trudeau was a candidate for the Liberal Party leadership. He gave a big speech to delegates at what was called the “Liberal leadership showcase.”
Among other things, Trudeau said this: “The only person Mr. Harper wants his caucus to serve is their leader. Well, that’s not good enough. We need to be a party of community leaders, devoted to community service. That’s why I am calling for open nominations for all Liberal candidates in every single riding in the next election.”
“Open nominations” is political-speak. It basically means what the phrase implies: the selection of candidates is wide open, and there is no special treatment for supposed star candidates. In a true open nomination process, there are no barriers to anyone wanting to be a Liberal candidate – and, in particular, the leader stays out of it.
Trudeau made a big deal out of his open nomination pledge. No one asked him to. He did it, all on his own. In a speech after speech, in scrum after scrum, the newly minted Liberal Party leader said open nominations were the new way.
In a year-end interview with the Toronto Star: “Every candidate for the Liberal Party in 338 ridings in 2015, or whenever the election does come, will have been chosen in a free vote by the Liberal members of that riding.”
In a statement made just last month: “Open nominations, which I continue to be committed to and have always been committed to, is about letting local Liberals choose who is going to be their candidate in the next election.”
And even on the Liberal Party of Canada website: “Our Leader Justin Trudeau is committed to open nominations in all 338 ridings from coast to coast to coast.”
Well, that wasn’t true, was it? No. It was a lie.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/18/what-happened-to-trudeaus-open-nomi...
This isn't Brian Lilly, its Warren Kinsella, who bleeds liberal.
This is why this column is so much more damaging then an attack from the NDP, it represents the ridings Liberal grassroots. I'll point out as well that its not just Innes supporters upset now, but the supporter of the other Liberals running for the job. Trudeau has burned the Liberal Grassroots to ash.
Bad news for the NDP out of Alberta, as Lewis Cardinal has had to step down as candidate in Edmonton Centre due to health and personal reasons.
+1
Justin Trudeau Criticized For Posing For Photo Before Flaherty Funeral
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/17/justin-trudeau-jim-flaherty-fune...
From rebels to retirees: Ranks of original Reformers are rapidly dwindling
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/From+rebels+retirees+Ranks+ori...
Trudeau’s Phantom Fight for the Middle Class
http://looniepolitics.com/trudeaus-phantom-fight-middle-class/
Pauline Marois is gone. Is Stephen Harper next, given the similarities?
Parallels between former Quebec premier Pauline Marois and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are inescapable.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/04/20/pauline_marois_is_g...
In other words, don't rock the boat says the Canadian establishment. Otherwise the rich in Canada might have to start paying their fair share of taxes, and the growing gap between the rich and the poor might shrink a wee bit. We can't let that happen, can we?
Trudeau's rise jeopardizes Harper's tenure
But Trudeau seems to wear well. He is no longer seen as a kid with a good name and a slender resume. He has established himself as a serious politician. He is also a genuinely likeable politician, and likeability is a significant asset in politics. Bill Davis and Peter Lougheed had it. So did Jean Chrétien in the early years. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair comes across too hard-edged to be truly likeable. And likeability is simply not part of Stephen Harper political wiring.
Ask yourself, if you were inviting a national leader over for a beer and a burger in your backyard, who would you ask? You would choose someone who is interesting and fun. Harper? No way. Mulcair? Probably not. Elizabeth May? Yeah, maybe. Trudeau? For sure. That likeability is reflected in renewed Liberal popularity, especially among young voters and female voters.
Eric Grénier notes that the Liberals’ year-long lead in the polls is the longest stretch that the Harper government has trailed in second since their election in 2006. “The last time a majority government trailed in the polls for as long as the Conservatives have was in the last years of Brian Mulroney’s tenure,” Grénier observes. That was back in 1992-93. Mulroney hung on. Kim Campbell eventually replaced him. And the mighty Tories won just two seats in the 1993 election.
No one is predicting obliteration on that scale for Harper’s Tories. But the question on Ottawa lips (it has passed the sotto voce stage) is: will Harper stay on if he is not pretty darned sure he will retain his majority? The smart money says No.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/geoff-stevens/2014/04/trudeaus-rise-jeop...
This is pure propaganda, and Liberal manipulation of the mainstream press at its finest. What a crock, eh!
This has been timed exactly to coincide wiith the release of the devastating for the Liberals Angus Reid poll to try and mitigate the damage to the Liberals.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/on-trudeau-anniversary-torie...
Of course let's buy into the cherry-picking nonsense from our right-wing government.
Martin is an idiot!
Where are all the NDP supporting journalists that could be writing articles in the online press?
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/04/23/trudeaus-middle-class-mantra-needs-re...
Canada leading ranks of shrinking middle class
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/22/canada-leading-ranks-of-shr...
This is pure propaganda, and Liberal manipulation of the mainstream press at its finest. What a crock, eh!
This has been timed exactly to coincide wiith the release of the devastating for the Liberals Angus Reid poll to try and mitigate the damage to the Liberals.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/on-trudeau-anniversary-torie...
Don't know what effect this will have on things after that "devastating" poll.
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2014/...
Maybe it will result in a devastating poll for the Conservatives, that I'm sure you won't call devastating.
What a surprise! Not!
He should have stood his ground. Coward!
Trudeau runs from middle class questions following report
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2014/04/20140423-...
Jason Kenney - what do you think?
Or is he just too evil for most Canadians?
True Blue
Jason Kenney wants Stephen Harper's job. But is he too extreme for the Cons?
What with Obama's decision on Keystone, Canada's Supreme Court decision on the Senate, and now Jason Kenney's efforts on TFW's has left the program in tatters, it just has benn one horrible week for poor Steve.
Doncha feel sorry for him! 
Oops, maybe Harper's week is not ending so badly after all. and folks this is the kind of thing that has staying power and can win elections.
Federal government posts $5.1-billion surplus in February; could balance the books a year earlier than expected
Political notebook: February was third consecutive month with a budgetary surplus
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Federal+government+posts+billion+surplu...
With this kind of pontification, rates will probably go up soon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stephen-poloz-says-low-interest-rates-ma...
Prentice move could indicate PM’s future
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Opinion/Columnists/2014-04-26/article-37023...
Le talon d’Achille de Stephen Harper
L’ancien chef de cabinet du premier ministre Stephen Harper, Nigel Wright, ne fera pas face à des accusations criminelles pour avoir donné 90 000 $ au sénateur Mike Duffy afin de l’aider à rembourser des allocations de résidence auxquelles il n’avait pas droit.
« Mon intention était d’assurer le remboursement des fonds publics. J’ai cru que mes gestes respectaient toujours l’intérêt public et qu’ils étaient honnêtes. Le résultat de l’enquête en profondeur de la GRC vient désormais soutenir ma position », a déclaré le principal intéressé.
L’intérêt public ? L’objectif de M. Wright n’était pas seulement d’alléger le fardeau des contribuables, mais aussi d’étouffer une affaire qui embarrassait son patron, et tout cela en laissant croire que M. Duffy avait lui-même remboursé les sommes litigieuses.
La logique de M. Wright est conforme à celle de ce gouvernement qui confond intérêt des conservateurs et intérêt public. L’intérêt des premiers a préséance et justifie de faire fi du Parlement, de rabrouer ses fonctionnaires indépendants, d’attaquer quiconque formule une critique et, à la limite, de se moquer des règles électorales.
http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/406025/le-talon-d-achille-de-st...
Trudeau’s Phantom Fight for the Middle Class
Trudeau’s enthusiasm for resource extraction also has serious long term issues, and not just about the environment, but the economy too. Proponents of Canada’s natural resources point to the many well paid jobs that the industry provides. Those jobs are here today. But as Alberta’s economy continues its dependence on oil production, the world is changing. The U.S., one of Canada’s major markets continues to boost its own domestic production.
More significantly, the cost of renewable energy continues to fall and Canada lags behind on the renewable energy front. Saudi Arabia plans on building a large solar panel factory, while China is making a massive investment in wind turbines. While Ontario has made some modest gains on this front, and despite the protestations of free marketeers, federal and provincial governments are going to have to do more to foster the industry.
As for Alberta, its economy is less diverse than it was 20 years ago, and this has created a situation where Alberta is adding jobs only at the high and low ends of the pay scale. This is an unsustainable trajectory.
Entrepreneurship and education sound like smart ways to increase economic growth, but the evidence simply isn’t there. Startups have a high failure rate. While there is always going to be a success story that produces innovation, it shouldn’t a centrepiece of an economic policy to provide middle class stability.
There’s nothing wrong with government providing reasonable supports to entrepreneurs, but it won’t create many jobs, let alone stable ones. The fact of the matter is despite politicians from across the political spectrum idealizing small business, larger businesses actually create more and better paying jobs. What politicians don’t mention when they say small business creates lots of new jobs, is that they are also responsible for many job losses.
It’s time to retire this myth from political discourse.
Trudeau has promoted the idea that more Canadians need post secondary education. He says he would like to see post secondary education attainment at 70 per cent of the adult population. A laudable goal, but post secondary educational attainment has already been trending upwards. According to Statistics Canada, in 2011 approximately 64 per cent of Canadian adults had a post secondary education, up from 60 per cent in 2006.
Free trade is also making educational attainment pointless in some sectors. Witness the outsourcing of IT jobs to South Asia. Developing countries are only going to increase their funding of higher education.
There are also only so many high paying jobs even in a strong economy. Increased education levels can certainly contribute to increased productivity (which Canada certainly could use), but the benefits of productivity gains will only benefit the middle class if accompanied by a policy of redistribution. Trudeau has signaled that he isn’t interested in changing corporate or personal income tax rates which make redistribution possible.
There isn’t much radically different coming from the other parties in parliament. We know what the Conservatives are doing. The NDP has also ruled out raising tax rates on high income earners and are under tremendous pressure to accept free trade agreements to demonstrate that they are “responsible” when it comes to the economy.
What makes the Liberal position so fascinating is Trudeau’s constant banging on drums about how he will fight for the middle class. The data suggests otherwise. This position isn’t helped by the fact that Trudeau has also mentioned that he supports evidence based policy. It’s time to look at who is providing his evidence.
At this point, it’s safe to say that Ottawa is sleepwalking when it comes to developing a new vision for the economy. Hopefully, it will not take a another economic crisis to wake them up.
http://looniepolitics.com/trudeaus-phantom-fight-middle-class/
With the aggregate levels of support, the Conservatives would likely win around 134 seats, with 119 seats going to the Liberals, 84 seats to the New Democrats, 5 seats to the Bloc Québécois, and 2 seats to the Greens.
Prentice, Harper, Kenney, whoever - the Cons still have a chance at a minority government.
I cannot fathom why the NDP and Liberals don't cooperate to stop the neo-cons? Even if the NDP were the smaller partner in a coalition, wouldn't that be vastly better than being third place with the Cons still in power? Couldn't it be a crucial and realistic step towards the NDP actually forming a government? Mulcair and Trudeau would have to remind themselves upon waking up every morning not to destroy each other (don't know if they'd sleep together at Sussex, up to them), but Mulcair could easily and quietly outshine Trudeau, even while deferring to him as the leader with more MPs.
I'd like to see the NDP and Liberals announcing their intention to form a coalition during the campaign, and also deciding on certain ridings in which not to run a candidate so that the other party's candidate has a better chance of winning, on an equal one-for-one basis. Even two ridings in which a Con doesn't sneak up the side would be great, four would be terrific, six just stupendous.
Trudeau would get to play PM, and the NDP would be able to build while pretty much holding the cards on calling an election. And hopefully a fairer Canada would revive as they are at it.
With the aggregate levels of support, the Conservatives would likely win around 134 seats, with 119 seats going to the Liberals, 84 seats to the New Democrats, 5 seats to the Bloc Québécois, and 2 seats to the Greens.Prentice, Harper, Kenney, whoever - the Cons still have a chance at a minority government.
I cannot fathom why the NDP and Liberals don't cooperate to stop the neo-cons? Even if the NDP were the smaller partner in a coalition, wouldn't that be vastly better than being third place with the Cons still in power? Couldn't it be a crucial and realistic step towards the NDP actually forming a government? Mulcair and Trudeau would have to remind themselves upon waking up every morning not to destroy each other (don't know if they'd sleep together at Sussex, up to them), but Mulcair could easily and quietly outshine Trudeau, even while deferring to him as the leader with more MPs.
I'd like to see the NDP and Liberals announcing their intention to form a coalition during the campaign, and also deciding on certain ridings in which not to run a candidate so that the other party's candidate has a better chance of winning, on an equal one-for-one basis. Even two ridings in which a Con doesn't sneak up the side would be great, four would be terrific, six just stupendous.
Trudeau would get to play PM, and the NDP would be able to build while pretty much holding the cards on calling an election. And hopefully a fairer Canada would revive as they are at it.
Dream on!
For those whom constantly drone on about an Liberal/NDP coalition...please forget about it ever happening.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again whenever someone drops this little piece of wishful thinking, the Liberals will be happy to accept NDP support for a Liberal government, but the Liberals will NEVER allow the NDP to gain any measure of equal status to them.
The right-of-centre Liberals will defect en masse to the Conservatives to prevent an NDP minority government from ever occuring.
I'm sure Mulcair would be interested, but when I look down the list of the Liberal caucus, there are simply too many who are closer to the Cons than would ever be willing to accept the NDP as an equal partner. That's why the Liberals voted 70+ times to keep the Cons in power between 2008 and 2011.
A Liberal/N.D.P. coalition...NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
A Liberal/N.D.P. coalition...NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
You saw the December 2008 coalition coming, did you?
I'm preserving this strange prediction of yours for future reference. You may wish to start stocking up now on filet of crow.
A Liberal/N.D.P. coalition...NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
You saw the December 2008 coalition coming, did you?
I'm preserving this strange prediction of yours for future reference. You may wish to start stocking up now on filet of crow.
You do know that I'm a Maritimer, right?
Don't you mean 'filet of Seagull'?
Great effort by the Mulcair-led NDP.
Elections bill changes welcome but let's see details, Tom Mulcair says
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he wants to see details of amendments the Harper Conservatives say they'll make to their contentious fair elections act.
In a speech to his caucus, Mulcair takes credit for forcing the Tories to make changes to their electoral reform package, Bill C-23.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-crisis-kharkiv-mayor-hennady-kernes...
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Mulcair takes credit for forcing Ottawa's amendments to Fair Elections Act
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-takes-credit-for-forcing-ottawa-s...
The Conservatives are going to win, and they may win big in the next election unless the NDP can get out front on the jobs issue. All these other issues like national unity, robocalls, or the fair elections act are over and done with for the foreseeable future.
I keep hammering away at it because the NDP has not quite grasped the importance of making jobs, jobs, and more jobs, the fundamental overriding issue for the next election.
"It's the economy stupid" is absolutely correct.
Don't people ever get tired of losing elections - What is not to understand about this.
The Conservatives are going to win, and they may win big in the next election unless the NDP can get out front on the jobs issue. All these other issues like national unity, robocalls, or the fair elections act are over and done with for the foreseeable future.I keep hammering away at it because the NDP has not quite grasped the importance of making jobs, jobs, and more jobs, the fundamental overriding issue for the next election.
"It's the economy stupid" is absolutely correct.
Don't people ever get tired of losing elections - What is not to understand about this.
Why yes, oh wise and mighty one. You are all powerful and you know everything, and we must bow down and worship you!
I keep hammering away at it because the NDP has not quite grasped the importance of making jobs, jobs, and more jobs, the fundamental overriding issue for the next election.
"It's the economy stupid" is absolutely correct.
Don't people ever get tired of losing elections - What is not to understand about this.
Do you have any concrete proposals on job creation? I think slogans like "It's the economy stupid" don't win votes without a concrete plan to back up how more well paying jobs will replace less paying jobs.
Here in BC the BC Liberals won the 2013 election when they came up with a concrete plan on job creation while the NDP seemed to have none.
A large increase in infrastructure development, eg mass transit, social housing, environmental protection, green energy, education, health care, early childhood development, etc, could create a lot of well paying jobs.
I think the NDP should run on a full employment, well paying jobs platform in 2015.
Increasing working tax credits could also be a part of a full employment, well paying jobs platform.
ABSOLUTELY JKR! The NDP has to stop being afraid of being called reckless spenders. This is exactly the time for Keynsian intervention! The NDP has to stop selling its strengths! You NAILED IT!
Shifting ground clears paths for NDP — but can they step up?
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair scrums with the media in Ottawa last week.PHOTO: SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS/FILE
This is our moment to build the Canada of our dreams,” a beaming Tom Mulcair told a mob of hooting, hollering New Democrat MPs this week, as they returned to Parliament Hill, still riding the adrenalin rush of their victory over the governing Conservatives on Bill C-23, which they’d dubbed the “unfair elections act.”
Mulcair was hailed by his caucus as a conquering hero. And it would be difficult to argue, in fairness, that he doesn’t deserve at least some of the accolades for forcing amendments to C-23, which, though not perfection, vastly improve the bill. With a new CROP poll out Tuesday showing the NDP now lead the Liberals by a hair in Quebec, at 33-per-cent support compared with 32 per cent, Mulcair is having a good month. In the ROC another pair of new polls, by Angus Reid and Ipsos, show the NDP still running a distant third, but with Liberal support slipping — suggesting, possibly, that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s yearlong honeymoon is waning. Indeed, this has the look of an opportunity for Mulcair — a moment in which he could bring all his dogged work in the Senate spending scandal to fruition, and establish his party as a government in waiting, as he has long claimed it was, to little avail.
But can the NDP leader capitalize on the opportunity?
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair asks a question during question period in the House of Commons. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
There is no question but that, this spring, the strategic ground has shifted in a way that clears some paths for him that previously were muddy or obscured. The most important of these was the Quebec election. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s majority victory, and the reasons for it — a powerful, popular renunciation of the very notion of resurrecting the separatist project — neutralized one of the most potent arguments against these New Democrats in the ROC, and indeed for many within Quebec. That is, that they would rewrite the federal Clarity Act to enshrine 50 per cent, plus one, as the threshold in a referendum that would initiate negotiations on separation. Of course, the NDP’s Sherbrooke Declaration remains a part of its platform; but the collapse of Quebec separatism makes it moot, the political equivalent of an appendix.
Next: The Supreme Court’s Senate ruling last Friday was, at first blush, nearly as much of a setback for Mulcair as it was for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Again at a stroke, the SCC gave the lie to any notion that the Senate can simply be made to vanish, as the NDP’s catchy slogan, “roll up the red carpet,” clearly implied. Mulcair has since insisted his party understood all along they’d need to secure provincial buy-in. But unanimous buy-in, as the court has ruled? It’s a practical impossibility.
But here too, the court’s very clear ruling arguably moves this entire field of political combat off centre of the board, at least for 2015 — in a sense levelling an area in which the Liberals, until now, have held a clear advantage. Trudeau’s disavowal of his party’s 32 senators last January was always intended to be a first step, to be followed eventually by deeper reforms in senators’ selection that would not require constitutional change. It is now unclear whether any reform at all in the selection process, beyond consultations of the most informal kind, would be legal without approval of at least seven provinces, constituting half the population.
Then, there’s the Keystone XL file, which Mulcair has consistently gotten wrong since he became NDP leader in March 2012. Again, somewhat paradoxically, he may benefit from developments beyond his sphere of influence; the pipeline is off the government’s agenda, at least until U.S. midterm elections are past and probably until Barack Obama is no longer president. As recent reporting by Bloomberg News has made clear, the lion’s share of blame for that rests with Obama and with Harper himself. But the shelving of the discussion effectively eclipses another area in which Mulcair had strategically hobbled himself, particularly in Ontario. The new thrust of the federal and Alberta government’s efforts, the Edmonton Journal reported Tuesday, is, guess what? Canadian pipeline projects, in other words an eastern-directed line, which the New Democrats have long advocated.
http://o.canada.com/news/shifting-ground-clears-paths-for-ndp-but-can-th...
ABSOLUTELY JKR! The NDP has to stop being afraid of being called reckless spenders. This is exactly the time for Keynsian intervention! The NDP has to stop selling its strengths! You NAILED IT!
The NDP's blueprint is basically the same one that has placed countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, etc..., on top of almost every list of human development. Social democratic countries are leading the world in human developoment. It's a shame that most Canadians don't know about this.
Lowering the small busines tax...targeted corporate tax cuts that are linked to jobs...
Come on NDP, jump all over this file.
OECD: Canada’s income gap among worst in developed world
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/04/30/oecd-canadas-income-gap-among-worst-i...
This is a government of sound managers?
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/04/30/this-is-a-government-of-sound-managers/
I keep hammering away at it because the NDP has not quite grasped the importance of making jobs, jobs, and more jobs, the fundamental overriding issue for the next election.
"It's the economy stupid" is absolutely correct.
Don't people ever get tired of losing elections - What is not to understand about this.
Do you have any concrete proposals on job creation? I think slogans like "It's the economy stupid" don't win votes without a concrete plan to back up how more well paying jobs will replace less paying jobs.
Here in BC the BC Liberals won the 2013 election when they came up with a concrete plan on job creation while the NDP seemed to have none.
A large increase in infrastructure development, eg mass transit, social housing, environmental protection, green energy, education, health care, early childhood development, etc, could create a lot of well paying jobs.
I think the NDP should run on a full employment, well paying jobs platform in 2015.
Increasing working tax credits could also be a part of a full employment, well paying jobs platform.
I would agree that the NDP did not have any concrete job creation plan. The Liberal plan was a fantasy though.
I am assuming that neither of you can properly spell "fillet," since I am sure neither of you is referring to catch crows and seagulls in a "net"!
A Liberal/N.D.P. coalition...NOT GONNA HAPPEN!
You saw the December 2008 coalition coming, did you?
I'm preserving this strange prediction of yours for future reference. You may wish to start stocking up now on filet of crow.
You do know that I'm a Maritimer, right?
Don't you mean 'filet of Seagull'?
