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Everything you need to know about the parties’ platforms, from taxes and terrorism to the environment
Here’s your guide to the four main parties’ record and pledges as the campaign begins: Economy, Taxes And Pocketbook Issues / Security And Terrorism: / Energy And Environment / Infrastructure And Transport / Foreign Affairs And Defence / Social Issues / Democratic Reform And Governance / Justice / Aboriginal Issues
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living, tax
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Canada needs to re-evaluate its approach to economic stimulus
Low rates in recent years have done little to stimulate private investment, and the steep slide in the dollar since mid-last year has done little to stimulate manufactured exports… there are few signs that businesses are set to open the floodgates on the $500-billion in extra cash reserves they’ve built up since the recession… Targeted provincial fiscal action could firm up growth, without adding undue stimulus in other parts of the national economy.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Tories’ economic projections all smoke and mirrors
The Conservative government’s sole economic policy objective has always been the elimination of the deficit. This is the only criterion it uses to judge its economic record; nothing else has mattered — not stronger economic growth, not increased job creation, not improved productivity, not saving the environment, not greater tax efficiency and tax fairness, and not strengthening federal-provincial and Aboriginal relations. The primary objective of the Harper government has always been to diminish the role of the federal government in economic policy.
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Tories roll out taxpayer-funded payola
On Harper’s cash-for-kids program… The NDP leader would simply deliver Harper’s enriched benefit, while giving parents a chance to get in on the ground floor of his eight-year plan to develop a $15-a-day national child care system. The Liberal leader would scrap Harper’s assortment of payments and tax breaks… and introduce a single, tax-free Canada Child Benefit targeted at middle-and lower-income families… Mulcair is offering low-risk, incremental change. Trudeau is offering a fairer, more coherent approach.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why a health-care report was dead on arrival in Ottawa
The Harper government was hoping for change-on-the-cheap from the panel: innovation that would cost nothing but improve the system. It certainly has no interest in an expanded, direct federal role in health care, having made it abundantly clear that health care is for the provinces, except for Ottawa’s responsibility for aboriginal and veterans’ health, public health and drug approvals… The Naylor panel noted… that [recent increases in Federal] money improved things for providers, but not for many patients.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, tax
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More of same from Harper won’t end economic woes
… he always blames the 2008 recession (which ended six years ago), and then he blames the Americans and the Chinese and even the Greeks — any scapegoat he can find. But more serious than his denial of responsibility is Harper’s claim that Canadians are helpless victims of circumstances beyond all control. There is nothing different or better to do, he says. We just have to hunker down, and keep following his “plan” — a plan that has clearly failed.
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Mulcair, Trudeau agendas offer relief, not risk
Both Mulcair and Trudeau would upend Harper’s $26 billion pre-election “cash for everyone” budget that disproportionately favours higher-income earners. They would cancel the Conservative Family Tax Cut, an income-splitting measure that benefits the affluent. Both would also cancel the Tory increase in the TFSA, which also largely benefits higher earners. And Trudeau would roll Harper’s universal child care benefit into a new family support program… The biggest “risk” these changes pose is to the wealthy.
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Stephen Harper offers a record of selective accomplishment
He did introduce a universal child care benefit. To pay for it, his government de-invested in preschool learning and child care centres. His final promise — to cut medical wait times — was a mirage. Harper knew the provinces, not Ottawa, controlled the delivery of health services… Nor did he offer — or attempt — to reduce poverty, strengthen democracy or respect the courts. If voters assumed these were inadvertent oversights, they were wrong… It reflects Harper’s ideology, not the mandate he sought from voters.
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