NDP promising more police officers across the country

The NDP leader also recently announced $250 million to recruit 2,500 front line police officers to an area of BC that’s seen rising gun crime.

He says a New Democrat government would commit $7 million annually to a Joint Emergency Preparedness Program for disasters such as floods and fires.

Mulcair said he has spoken to boards of trade and chambers of commerce across the country, including the Surrey Board of Trade, about workers’ needs.

A similar plan in the United Kingdom has shown that about 80 per cent of requests from employees for changes in work hours are eventually granted, he added.

Harper used his London stop to re-announce a commitment to cut red tape for small business and entrepreneurs. Conservatives promise to hold crosscountry consultations on reforms if re-elected. Duceppe said it is “a rare occasion where there’s unanimity in Quebec” – against Ottawa and what he called its repressive approach.

There, he’ll find himself in the same region as NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, as he makes an announcement then holds a roundtable discussion in nearby Surrey.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s only public event is in King Township, north of Toronto before he heads to British Columbia.

Mulcair says his plan will make it easier for families in a province where two out of three children don’t have access to regulated child care.