Singh pledges to build a hospital even though feds can’t do that
Building hospitals is provincial jurisdiction.
09/12/2019
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jagmeet-singh-brampton-hospital_ca_5d7a76fee4b06028fd38d193
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Thu, 2019-09-12 16:25
#202
Thu, 2019-09-12 20:51
#203
Singh pledges to build a hospital even though feds can’t do that
Building hospitals is provincial jurisdiction.
09/12/2019
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jagmeet-singh-brampton-hospital_ca_5d7a76fee4b06028fd38d193
Jag is right. Huffington post = ICM
Thu, 2019-09-12 21:24
#204
I think what Singh is saying is that the Federal government would work with the province to fund the hospital, but there's some confusion because health care is a provincial responsibility under the Constitution. (Sections 91 & 92, if I remember my Constitutional Law classes correctly).
Thu, 2019-09-12 21:53
#205
I think what Singh is saying is that the Federal government would work with the province to fund the hospital, but there's some confusion because health care is a provincial responsibility under the Constitution. (Sections 91 & 92, if I remember my Constitutional Law classes correctly).
So Singh still apparently thinks he's leading the Ontario NDP? That would explain why he has essentially ignored the rest of the country.
I agree, announcing that the federal funds will build hospitals does create confusion. Even when the former NDP government was rebuilding the hospital in Brandon, I can't remember if there were any signs indicating that federal funds had gone to that project. He should stick to talking about general health care things that are under federal control, and the specific provincial decisions like "we'll build a new hospital in this locatin in Brampton" should be left to the provinces.
Tue, 2019-09-17 12:27
#206
Jagmeet Singh’s crucial Quebec launch lacks exposure to voters
Singh told Global News later that night on the campaign bus that he knows students are his “key demographic.”
The problem is, the event with about 150 students was the largest Singh had in his day and a half in Quebec and the longest he spent talking to voters one on one during that time.
Hanging onto seats in Quebec is critical to his party’s future. The NDP currently holds 14, down from the nearly 60 captured in the 2011 Orange wave with Jack Layton as leader.
“Certainly, the nightmare scenario for them is losing all the 14 seats in Quebec,” said McGill University political scientist Daniel Beland.
“In some of these ridings, the incumbent is in fourth or even in fifth place right now,” added Beland, who noted none of the seats is safe.
... With such bold promises, you’d expect multiple opportunities to sell them to voters during his time in Quebec. But Singh had no big rallies. No secondary announcement to highlight or launch a particular part of the Quebec platform. And his schedule, overall, was light compared to the other party leaders.
... Global News asked Singh why he didn’t have more events during his stay in a province that’s critical to the party’s future.
“We’ll have more events, we’re excited about the events we’ve got lined up. We’ve got a full campaign in front of us, 35 days,” Singh said.
Singh ended those comments with an awkward statement:
“Really proud that we’ve got candidates like Sophie, like other candidates that are here today I don’t want to name because I don’t want to make mistakes, but we’ve got a great team that works really hard.”
The man fighting to be prime minister left the impression he doesn’t know the names of all his candidates when he’s in a critical fight to sell them to the people of Quebec.
Global News gave Singh an opportunity to clarify what he meant. Both he and the party suggested he meant he didn’t want to leave anyone out — he wasn’t sure exactly who was behind him in the crowd.
Not knowing which candidates are at a specific event is also a mark of a lack of details and level of organization from the team preparing and briefing their candidate.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5911374/analysis-jagmeet-singh-quebec/beta/?u...
Tue, 2019-09-17 17:30
#207
Bullshit R.E.Wood!
Jag has been doing a great job, and the imperialist corporate media takes every opportunity to let their spin doctors twist his words and shit on him!
Not the first time I called out this kind of lies here!
Tue, 2019-09-17 17:38
#208
Liberals and the Conservatives always give big tax breaks to the big corporations - why is that?
Tue, 2019-09-17 21:14
#209
The biggest debate of Jagmeet Singh's political career might have been against himself two years ago: Should he quit as deputy leader of the Ontario NDP to run for the party's federal leadership?
As Singh considered making the leap, his passion for human rights proved decisive, likely because it's his first love. Years ago, for example, he spoke out forcefully for the rights of women and minorities in India and paid a price — provoking the Indian government to deny him a visitor's visa.
Today, given that history, why not speak out more clearly and forcefully for human rights here at home?
At a time when pious Quebecers are being persecuted for their beliefs — denied the human right to wear religious garb as teachers or judges — Singh's New Democrats have lost their voice. For fear of losing votes in Quebec.
Tue, 2019-09-17 23:30
#210
What absurd nonsense but to be expected comments from the usual Liberal media fan club
Show us one, not two, just one article from the CBC or the Toronto Star that is favourable to Jagmeet
Mon, 2019-09-23 19:26
#211
Better late than never...
NDP leader lands in New Brunswick, says he's sorry for not visiting sooner
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/singh-visit-apology-nb-1.52...
Mon, 2019-09-30 09:36
#212
NDP looking to social media for a campaign boost
The NDP, which went into this federal election campaign short of money and with sagging poll numbers, needs social media clout. It got some on Saturday.
In front of a few hundred people in a Burnaby, B.C., hotel, Canadian poet and Instagram sensation Rupi Kaur shared her "Jagmeet story" about being a shy teen in Brampton, Ont., who felt alone and invisible. The one person who didn't write her off as a "nobody" back then, was beside her on stage — NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.
"He made me feel seen," she said. "It gives me the deepest honour to sit here before you today and endorse my brother Jagmeet Singh as Canada's next prime minister."
These kinds of endorsement happen during campaigns, but this one is especially welcome for the NDP.
Kaur's a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator who has 3.7 million Instagram followers.
That's the kind of social media reach the party needs.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-creative-social-media-campaign-1.53...