Leaders preparing for French language debate

The reason is very simple: because they think they know how to spend money better than you do.

Probably Justin Trudeau and Tom Mulcair do not believe in total confiscation, but, within the rhetorical excess is a basic view of taxation and an implicit debate about governance.

There is plenty of room in Canada for a variety of viewpoints and lifestyles – it would be unusual indeed if a country so vast were as uniform in outlook as Harper seems to think it is. There are nods in the Conservative campaign to security and values, but principally, there is a commitment to discount.

According to the latest data, the Canadian economy continues to be the most-discussed election issue on Facebook, as it has been since the beginning of this campaign. He is suing two Conservative ministers over his denial of citizenship.

Stephen Harper has no public events on his calendar and will instead focus on preparation for the debate hosted by the TVA network.

Mulcair has consistently denied this week that his support in Quebec is slipping – despite a few polls that suggest otherwise – saying the NDP has never enjoyed more strength in the province than it does now.

By global standards, Canadians do not pay in obvious excess.

An investigative report by the Post revealed this week that Tru-Youths United Association, a pro-Trudeau activist group made up of young volunteers, had the same registered address as Ching’s office in Richmond, British Columbia; its directors included Ching’s teenage daughter, Linda Ching, and Liberal special advisor Wang Ting Ting. The Conservatives can boast now that the federal tax “burden”-revenue measured as a percentage of national GDP-is at its lowest point in 60 years. It is money that exists within the current budgetary framework but has not been spent yet on First Nations education”.

You can listen to the full interview below. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) was formed four years after that. “But we embrace these promises, vote for them, without asking ourselves or our political leaders just what we were losing with these cuts”.

The leaders in this first-ever Canadian elections debate devoted entirely to foreign policy also sparred over Arctic sovereignty, foreign aid, the Syrian refugee crisis, Russian Federation and Ukraine, Canada-US relations, the Iran nuclear deal, greenhouse gas emissions, and trade.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair pledged Wednesday to end the muzzling of scientists in the federal government if the NDP formed the next government.

The controversy may prove to be the NDP’s undoing in Quebec, said Andre Drouin, the author of a “code of conduct” adopted by the central Quebec town of Herouxville in 2007 that said immigrants wanting to move there must not stone women to death in public or burn them alive. At least he admits it. And besides, don’t we always? For most of us, style has played a greater role than substance in shaping our opinions. Efficiency is a lovely, if sometimes unrealistically applied, idea. He has donated to both the Liberals and the Conservatives, albeit in smaller amounts to the Tories. “The goal must be to make it better-and fit for the new demands of the 21st century”.

Located in Montreal, the Papineau riding has been held by the Liberal Party leader since 2008, and faces competition not just from the NDP, Conservative Party, Bloc Québécois and Green Party, but candidates representing the Rhinoceros Party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, and three others who aren’t connected to any particular party. Failures might be exposed, and any cut to a program has the potential to stir complaint from advocates, no matter the evidence.

If I had to identify the one thing that led me to see Mulcair as especially prime ministerial, it would not be a policy he promised, but an offhand comment he made.

“All parties, except the Conservatives, are playing that card”.