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He accused the Liberal leader of following Harper’s lead on TPP.

“(Harper) had already done that before he appeared before us to emote, talking about his own family after seeing the body of that little child on that beach in Turkey. We need only look to history to find examples of what happens when political leaders are allowed to single out individual religions and races without being challenged by true community leaders. The favourable reaction from business has been triggered by the stagnation of the Canadian economy, which has been hard hit by the collapse of oil and other commodity prices over the past year, leading to a recession in the first half of 2015. From what I can gather, the Liberals will create a deficit.

Then everything changed. The death of Michel Trudeau, Justin’s youngest brother, in an avalanche in the interior of B.C.in 1998, sent Pierre Trudeau into a steep decline, shattering his Catholic faith. “I’m always going to do what’s best for Canadian families”.

Another election? I have to pretend to care about politics again?

“There is something tangible happening across the country”, he said. One progressive party will form government, while the other will have a real chance of being the official opposition.

Auto firms now building vehicles in Canada include Ford Motor Co., General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.

So as this federal election approached, I paid close attention to organizations such as the Leadnow/Votetogether initiative (www.votetogether.ca) that actively propose strategic voting to defeat Stephen Harper’s government.

“Trust me, apart from the kids, your energy just feeds him when he’s out on the road so long”, said Sophie Gregoire, encouraging thousands of cheering partisans as she introduced Trudeau in Brampton, Ontario, last weekend. Trudeau’s promise to repeal certain aspects of the legislation is worthless, particularly since it was the Liberals who set in place numerous key pillars of Canada’s national security apparatus when last in power.

Those minorities “are not exclusively Christian by any means”, he added.

Yet the more trouble Harper faced the more he reached out to a base that often felt marginalized before he engineered a 2003 merger between the moribund, center-right Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance, a populist western based party.

In a written statement, Chris Alexander confirmed a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper that Harper’s office had earlier this year told immigration officials to stop processing claims of Syrians referred by the United Nations, declaring they would need the prime minister’s approval to enter Canada. Of the literally dozens of tax cuts and tax credits imposed by the Conservatives, Mr. Trudeau would reverse just one.

The Mainstreet/Postmedia poll found 34 per cent of respondents in the province would vote Conservative if the federal election were held the day they were surveyed.

In September a year ago, the prime minister locked Canada into a 31-year deal with China called the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which a few criticized as potential violation of the constitution.