At a campaign stop across the Rideau Canal from Parliament, Singh said he would zero in on tax evasion and close loopholes that benefit billionaires.
“We believe that the ultrarich should pay their fair share so we can invest in people,” Singh said.
“Invest in people” means “buy votes.”
For the better part of the last decade, millennials have simultaneously been taken for granted and written off by Canadian politicians. The federal Liberals assumed young voters would always be in their corner. This was partly thanks to historical trends, but also a reflection of the party’s trademark smug moral superiority and belief they were truly the only option on the table.
Conservatives on ‘rocket ride’ as seat projection shows close race: Nanos
TORONTO — The Conservatives continue to run just ahead of the Liberals in ballot support, and have also all but erased the previous Liberal lead in projected seats, according to nightly tracking conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and the Globe and Mail.
With an election underway, parties are officially on the hunt for the votes of Canadians, criss-crossing the country and campaigning right up to Sept. 20. And to fund all that travel, advertising and election gear, parties will be shelling out a lot of money.
But political parties and candidates will not be the only groups spending big in the election campaign. “Third parties” are also in the mix and will be hoping to shape the political conversation, get their issue prioritized and build up or tear down other political actors.
This is my seventh federal election in B.C. as a pollster for Ipsos.
Every election since my first in 2004, people have asked me if this is the one where B.C. is going to make a difference. It used to be that a winner was often declared before British Columbians even turned on their televisions to see the results come in. Voting times by region are more uniform these days, but people still want to know if a shift in B.C. will make a difference to the final outcome.
CAYLEY, ALTA. — Western separatists, dismayed by the current direction of Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party this election, are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the Bloc Québécois.
“We can learn from Quebec,” said Jay Hill, interim leader of the Maverick Party, formerly known as Wexit Canada.
Resentments among some in the West toward Ottawa continue to run high in Western provinces, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where frustrations are mounting over a perceived lack of appreciation for its oil and gas industry and a federal transfer system that has starved the West of much-needed revenues.
Latest Nanos daily polling still indicates a likely Liberal minority government.
Tories tell candidate who raised concern over ‘climate lockdown’ to take down videos
The Conservative Party told Global News on Sunday that Cheryl Gallant was told to take down videos from her YouTube channel and that she has to fully support all parts of the party’s platform or else she will no longer be a Conservative candidate.
The videos in question included one in which Gallant, who is up for re-election in the Ottawa Valley riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, warned constituents that the Liberals are preparing for a “climate lockdown.”
O’Toole clearly needs more sphincter relaxant.
The liberal leader insisted that the protests, which have now become a daily occurrence in his events, will not affect his commitments when the federal election campaign enters its third week.
“I think we have to understand that people have had a difficult year, that the world is changing rapidly, that there is fear, there is anxiety,” he said. “But let me also be very, very clear: I am absolutely resolute in my conviction to continue to move Canada forward.”
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is putting climate change on his campaign agenda today, laying out a promise to begin regulating total emissions from Canada’s oil and gas producers and invest heavily in job creation and retraining for Canadian fossil fuel workers.
Trudeau is in Cambridge, Ont., where protesters once again made an appearance amid a heavy police presence. Officers carried one woman off the property when she refused to leave when asked.
Andrew Leslie, the former Canadian general who also served a term as a Liberal MP, told Reuters on Friday that Canada’s debacle in Afghanistan “points to an extreme of centralized political micro-management.”
It’s a disaster caused by high-level politicians interfering with what professional soldiers and diplomats should be doing.
Barbara Kay: Trudeau the fake feminist ignores female inmates’ concerns
Nobody in Canada cares more about women’s interests than Justin Trudeau. Just ask him. Especially when he’s on the campaign trail (“feminist budget,” “she-cession,” “she-covery”). His personal record of, ahem, he-haviour with certain actual women is another story, but never mind all that. It’s election time. The women’s vote is crucial. Unleash the ministerial sheepdogs to herd all those grazing Canadian ewes, away from the Conservative wolves, and into the safety of the Liberal corral.
The decision by a federal Crown corporation to allow a new, 1,000-passenger ferry to be built largely in China is galling to any Canadian who supports justice, freedom and human rights.
As the Globe and Mail reported this week, Marine Atlantic Inc. awarded a $100-million, five-year contract to Sweden’s Stena North Sea Limited, which subcontracted construction of the vessel to a state-owned Chinese company.
Justin is working hard to appease Canada’s China class.
Justin Trudeau being greeted by Canadians today in Cambridge Ontario pic.twitter.com/EcFTl2iRRV
— Yanky (@Yanky_Pollak) August 29, 2021
When Justin Trudeau called a risky snap election earlier this month, he said Canadians faced their most consequential choice since 1945 — progress with him at the helm, or a step backwards under the Conservatives.
Amid a fourth wave of the pandemic and a chaotic Afghanistan evacuation, Canadians responded with a collective shrug. Within a week, the prime minister’s five-point poll lead disappeared. Now he is six points behind — his political future in doubt.
Once again, the golden boy of western politics looks chastened, just two years after Canadians re-elected him without a majority. If he loses, it will mark a dismal end for Trudeau, whose ambitious agenda and promises of “sunny ways” saw him catapult the third-placed Liberal Party to a handsome majority in 2015, but who has since been tarnished by ethics scandals, unkept promises and blackface images.
O’Toole says Conservatives who took part in anti-Trudeau protests aren’t welcome in his campaign
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says Conservatives who were part of the aggressive protests that forced the cancellation of a Liberal campaign event on Friday are not welcome on his team.
“If they were, they will no longer be involved with our campaign full stop,” Mr. O’Toole said at a campaign stop in Fredericton on Saturday.
Anti-vaccine and anti-mask protesters have attended almost all of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s events since he launched the federal election campaign on Aug. 15. Those protests reached a tipping point Friday night when safety concerns forced the Liberals to cancel their rally in Bolton, Ont.
No word on a name change for CPC
Always more! – Conservative candidate banishes campaign volunteers who were at Trudeau rally
Trudeau is still on track for a minority government.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole released a video statement Thursday evening about the increasingly dire situation unfolding in Afghanistan and outlined what he would do to help its people; some of whom are desperately trying to make it to Canada.
