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What a Liberal victory would mean for Canada’s economic policies
a minority government… would most likely require the support of the NDP to win confidence votes. The NDP will expect to see some of its policies implemented in exchange. The economic platforms of the two parties have significant overlap in terms of priorities, such as expanding the Canada Pension Plan, maintaining the age for qualifying for Old Age Security at 65, cutting the small-business tax rate from 11 per cent to 9 per cent, spending more on infrastructure and working with the provinces on a more aggressive approach to climate change.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, Health, ideology, tax
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Democratic Accountability
… on the economy, on defence and security, and on social policy, a free-market, hawkish, moderately libertarian newspaper would be hard-pressed to prefer the offerings of the Liberals and the NDP to the Conservatives. The same cannot be said for the government’s record on democracy, ethics and accountability.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Campaign 2015 forced Canadians to face hard truths
The racial and religious harmony on which we pride ourselves is more tenuous than many of us realized. / We are willing to settle for “economic stability” rather than growth. / We have embraced the notion that strengthening the middle class is the role of government [marginalizing those who truly need help]. / Our humanitarian instincts remain strong [concerning refugees]. / We’re becoming a do-it-yourself nation. / We haven’t figured out how to keep our priorities — health care, the environment, our children’s future — on the election agenda.
Tags: economy, Health, immigration, multiculturalism, philanthropy, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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High-road approach may pay off for Liberals
The Liberal Leader has spoken often about his desire to reach out, to bring Canadians together. It sounds hokey, but it contrasts with the Conservatives, who acknowledge their fondness for divisive wedge issues… [As to] Mr. Harper’s autocratic tendencies… 587 [academics have issued an open letter in protest against tactics “that betray the values of mutual respect and toleration that lie at the heart of civil democratic discourse.”
Tags: featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Ten years of attacks on dissent & debate in Canada
… this graphic, show[s] over 110 organizations, individuals, laws, acts, public services & democratic institutions that, since 2006, have been vilified, defunded, smeared, gutted, spied on, slashed or criminalized by the Canadian government… To read the case studies, visit our Hit List. And for the bigger picture, make sure to read our report Dismantling Democracy: Stifling debate & dissent in Canada.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Thanks to the Tories, and you, taxpayers, for all this money you’re sending me
The Fraser Institute… identified 68 tax credits whose elimination would bring in an extra $20 billion a year to the federal coffers… as it’s been having all of you good people chip in a few hundred bucks to send my toddler to gymnastics, this is good policy. Some might even call it good conservative policy. Why the are the Liberals the only ones proposing moving us even vaguely in that general direction?
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax
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How Stephen Harper changed the character of Canada
One by one, Canadians have lost the tools they need to understand what their government is doing and make informed choices about the future… “Small” changes add up. They transform the face of a nation and the character of its people. They prevent Canadians from finding out what is being done in their name, with their dollars. They erode empathy and trust. Please don’t shrug. This matters. Where the trajectory goes from here is up to us.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights
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King Stephen has changed Canada for the worse
… incapable of rising above partisanship. He is forever manipulating the system… How he operates is a function of who he is… biographers portray him as hot-tempered, foul-mouthed, paranoid, suspicious, secretive, mean and vindictive. Dubbed an elected dictator, he has run a one-man government… Adversaries are enemies, to be vanquished. Premiers are to be avoided, insulted… When the judges don’t do his bidding, he insults them…
Tags: ideology
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My days as a Conservative are over; I’m a democrat
Fiscally and philosophically I am conservative. In past I have supported, campaigned for and voted for Conservative candidates. However, after watching Prime Minister Harper surreptitiously and inexorably dismantling democracy in my wonderful country over the past decade; no longer. I am above all a democrat… This is the man who in opposition railed against lack of openness by the previous government and promised transparency if elected, yet has produced the most secretive government in memory.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Yes, let’s have an election on citizenship
Citizenship is weird. It is not one of those “Canadian values,” about which party leaders love to debate. It is rather the precondition for participating in those debates. In other words, citizenship is a right. As a right, you either have it or you don’t. If you have it, it can’t be taken away by someone with power, just because you don’t accept their notion of Canadian values — as you might remove it from them, if you had the power, because they didn’t conform to your values chart.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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