1)"Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2)"Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous"
3) "Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion"
4) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
5) "I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small"
6)"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it"
7) "I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it."
8) "In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, I don't feel particularly bad for many of these people"
9) "After sober reflection, Albertans should decide that it is time to seek a new relationship with Canada."
10)"Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. It is to take the bricks and begin building another home – a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become “maitres chez nous."
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Stand Up for Canada Stand Up to Stephen Harper
Rick Mercer:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/28/is-stephen-harper-a-hologram/
Given that Stephen Harper begins every event by singing “O Canada,”, you would think that the Liberals would want to drive a wedge between Harper and his audience by pointing to Stephen Harper's serial Canada bashing and the fact that he once wrote a paper called "Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada", but you would be wrong.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/09/stephen-harper-and-canada-a-love-story-iv/
So many great quotes. Be sure email them to friends and to post them on facebook, the Liberals decided to not bother.
1)"Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2)"Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous"
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion"
5) On Canada: “I’m starting to wonder what kind of banana republic we’re living in up here.”
6) "I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it."
To get a feel for the Harper campaign you only need a few hours. The differences from one event to the other are minuscule. In English Canada they start each event by singing “O Canada,” and Stephen Harper tells the crowd he’s proud to lead a party that starts every event this way no matter where they are in the country. In Quebec they skip this part and they hide the Canadian flags in the plane. Barring this nationalism of convenience, if you have seen one Harper event you have seen them all. The Harper campaign is far and away the most disciplined, the most professional and the most scripted. Every word is on a teleprompter, it is delivered in exactly the same way, and the Prime Minister does something I have, in a lifetime of watching live performers onstage, never seen before: he actually stops and sips his water in the same spot every time. Nothing is left to chance. Either that or he is a hologram on a loop.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/28/is-stephen-harper-a-hologram/
Given that Stephen Harper begins every event by singing “O Canada,”, you would think that the Liberals would want to drive a wedge between Harper and his audience by pointing to Stephen Harper's serial Canada bashing and the fact that he once wrote a paper called "Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada", but you would be wrong.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/02/09/stephen-harper-and-canada-a-love-story-iv/
So many great quotes. Be sure email them to friends and to post them on facebook, the Liberals decided to not bother.
1)"Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2)"Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous"
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion"
5) On Canada: “I’m starting to wonder what kind of banana republic we’re living in up here.”
6) "I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it."
Conservatives Bring in Hundreds of Thousands of Unskilled Guest Workers to drive down Wages
The number of guest workers allowed in has exploded since the Conservatives came to power and whereas the typical guest worker was once an American transferred to a branch office in Canada, the fastest growing category of guest worker is now the unskilled type with poor language skills. The Conservatives have not done this directly. They have turned over a greater percentage of the immigration file to the provinces and Western provinces in particular have used the program to undercut labour. The Canadian tax payer has paid through the noise to have cheap labour sent in from other countries for the sole purpose of cutting wages of the Canadian tax payer.
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/640224
Forget Conservative talk about such provincial programs bringing in much needed skilled workers, this was the kind of positions Alberta was hoping to fill through its guest worker programs: Front desk clerk, short order cook, baker, maid, assembly line worker, server, buser, bellhop, valet, and cafeteria worker, laundry attendant, pet groomer, general labourer, and hair dresser. All that is required of such would be immigrants is that they score 4 or 24 on the language assessment. In other words, they can still be functionally illiterate and still get it in.
It takes a great deal of chutzpah to Kenney to talk about wanting to avoid “the kind of ethnic enclaves or parallel communities that exist in some European countries” and then go about encouraging the very thing that led to the creation of these communities in Europe, viz., importing gobs of unskilled guest labour. Canada is lucky in so far as most Canadians see new immigrants as one of us. The Conservative policy will change this though. If the situation is allowed to continue, an increasing number of Canadians will see new immigrants, and most people are not going to make the distinction between guest worker and permanent resident, as someone brought in by employers to undercut wages.
Do not take my word for it. Take Sheila Fraser's word for it. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/auditor-general-sounds-alarm-on-immigration-policy/article1349837/
"According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, there were 57,843 temporary foreign workers in Alberta by the end of 2008, a 55 per cent jump from 2007 and more than four times the number residing here five years ago. By contrast, permanent immigration has been relatively stagnant, with fewer than 25,000 immigrants coming to Alberta last year from outside the country, only a few thousand people higher than in 2004.
Alberta is not the only the province to import workers. In raw numbers, Ontario has the highest number at 91,733. B.C. has about the same number as Alberta. Quebec has many fewer at only 26,085."
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/640224
Forget Conservative talk about such provincial programs bringing in much needed skilled workers, this was the kind of positions Alberta was hoping to fill through its guest worker programs: Front desk clerk, short order cook, baker, maid, assembly line worker, server, buser, bellhop, valet, and cafeteria worker, laundry attendant, pet groomer, general labourer, and hair dresser. All that is required of such would be immigrants is that they score 4 or 24 on the language assessment. In other words, they can still be functionally illiterate and still get it in.
It takes a great deal of chutzpah to Kenney to talk about wanting to avoid “the kind of ethnic enclaves or parallel communities that exist in some European countries” and then go about encouraging the very thing that led to the creation of these communities in Europe, viz., importing gobs of unskilled guest labour. Canada is lucky in so far as most Canadians see new immigrants as one of us. The Conservative policy will change this though. If the situation is allowed to continue, an increasing number of Canadians will see new immigrants, and most people are not going to make the distinction between guest worker and permanent resident, as someone brought in by employers to undercut wages.
Do not take my word for it. Take Sheila Fraser's word for it. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/auditor-general-sounds-alarm-on-immigration-policy/article1349837/
The report notes that Ottawa does not impose any minimum standards on workers selected by the provinces, and calls for these programs to be reviewed.
Provincial auditors-general in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island have all warned that the program is failing to track whether workers brought in by a province actually stay there.
The Auditor-General also reviewed the impact of controversial new powers awarded to Canada's immigration minister that were passed as part of the Conservative government's 2008 budget bill.
“We found that the Department [of Citizenship and Immigration] has made a number of key decisions in recent years without properly assessing their costs and benefits, potential risks, and likely impact on programs,” Ms. Fraser said. “Some of these decisions have caused a significant shift in the types of foreign workers being admitted permanently to Canada. There is little evidence that this shift is part of any well-defined strategy to best meet the needs of the Canadian labour market.”
In her first use of these new powers last year, then-immigration minister Diane Finley dropped the list of eligible occupations for the skilled worker program to 38 from 351.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Stephen Harper's less than impressive Economic Record
1) It was not that Canada performed particularly well; it was that the other G-8 countries were particularly hard it. Compare us against other OCED countries and the picture is not nearly as Rosy. For example, we rank 18th out 30 in terms of unemployment. Umemployment is 25% higher than it was 5 years ago.
2) The Conservatives do not deserve credit for 10% growth in China and more than anything else that is what has kept the Canadian economy strong relative to the other G8 countries. It has kept the price of commodities up.
3) The opposition parties forced the Conservatives into passing The stimulas package. They were able to do that because Michael Igantieff was at 36% in the Spring 2009. Ever since the Conservatives have spent tens of millions of dollars celebrating "Canada's action plan".
4) The Conservatives have shown a similar degree of chutzpah in celebrating a conservative lending culture in Canada that they had begun to undermine prior to the downturn.
5) The cost of housing gone through the roof since 2006 and the main reason for that is the Conservative government decided pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006 During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence. Ever since the down turn, Jim Flaherty has been scrabbling to undo the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market," The problem is it is too little too late. The best Flaherty and Conservatives can do is prevent further damage. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada deep into debt. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
6) Stephen Harper inherited a 13 billion surplus and in 4 years turned it into a 56 billion deficit. He also ran a deficit before the down turn.
2) The Conservatives do not deserve credit for 10% growth in China and more than anything else that is what has kept the Canadian economy strong relative to the other G8 countries. It has kept the price of commodities up.
3) The opposition parties forced the Conservatives into passing The stimulas package. They were able to do that because Michael Igantieff was at 36% in the Spring 2009. Ever since the Conservatives have spent tens of millions of dollars celebrating "Canada's action plan".
4) The Conservatives have shown a similar degree of chutzpah in celebrating a conservative lending culture in Canada that they had begun to undermine prior to the downturn.
5) The cost of housing gone through the roof since 2006 and the main reason for that is the Conservative government decided pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006 During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence. Ever since the down turn, Jim Flaherty has been scrabbling to undo the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market," The problem is it is too little too late. The best Flaherty and Conservatives can do is prevent further damage. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada deep into debt. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
6) Stephen Harper inherited a 13 billion surplus and in 4 years turned it into a 56 billion deficit. He also ran a deficit before the down turn.
Harper Thinks Medical user fees are a great idea and wants some medical services delisted
Canadian Press. "Harper also said co-payments by patients, user fees and delisting of some Medical services would help repair the Health System"
Research conclusively shows that user fees drive costs up not down. People do go to the doctor less often, but that is the problem. Many small treatable aliments go undiagnosed until they become more serious and much more costly to treat and people with chronic diseases visit the doctor far less than is good for themselves or the health care system.
Of course, there is one thing Canada can do to greatly reduce health care costs and both the NDP and Liberals are least partially receptive to idea, but which Stephen Harper has never had any time for and that is a national pharmacare program.
"For the past 20 years, prescription medications have been the fastest-growing segment of health-care spending: according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), from 1985 to 2007, the share of drugs in the total health expenditure increased from 9.5% to 16.5%; last year the drug bill totalled a whopping $30 billion."http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/strategy/article.jsp?content=20101025_10022_10022
But rather than seek ways to keep costs down, the evidence suggests that government has for years continuously and consciously overpaid. Part of the problem, it seems, is that drug coverage is fragmented — government picks up about 45% of the tab while private insurers and individuals pay the rest — which has acted as a disincentive. Instead of bargaining with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices, says Marc-André Gagnon, an assistant professor at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration, "the whole pricing system is based on the idea that we need to artificially inflate costs to create a more business-friendly environment." (In exchange for higher prices, drug companies pledged to invest at least 10% of Canadians sales on research and development.) But as he argues in a recent paper, this practice has raised prices without prompting significant spinoff investment: Canada now pays up to 40% more for drugs than other industrialized countries. (He estimates that adopting a national pharmacare program would save an estimated $10.7 billion annually."
You would think that a man who spent 3 years heading up an organization dedicated to the destruction of public health care and two more years as VP would know more about health care economics, but I guess we should not expect too much of him given his views about higher education.
Stephen Harper "I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small"
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Stepĥen Harper " west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Stephen Harper courts the ethnic vote
"west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
"west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
This Election is now all about the Greater Toronto Area
Brampton West
Brampton Springdale
Eglinton-Lawrence
York Center
Don Valley West
Ajax Pickering
Mississauga South
Richmond Hill
Mississauga-Streetsville
Bramalea-Gore-Malton
Moreover, for the Liberals the very survival of the party depends on them being able to firm up their support in these ridings. If these ridings all go Conservative, there is very good chance the party will no longer exist as a viable political force in Canadian politics. That begs the question. Why are Liberals not attacking the Conservatives like their is no tomorrow -- because really there might not be.
Brampton Springdale
Eglinton-Lawrence
York Center
Don Valley West
Ajax Pickering
Mississauga South
Richmond Hill
Mississauga-Streetsville
Bramalea-Gore-Malton
Moreover, for the Liberals the very survival of the party depends on them being able to firm up their support in these ridings. If these ridings all go Conservative, there is very good chance the party will no longer exist as a viable political force in Canadian politics. That begs the question. Why are Liberals not attacking the Conservatives like their is no tomorrow -- because really there might not be.
Stephen Harper " "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
It is kind of weird having a serial Canada basher as a PM and it is even stranger and troubling having him on the verge of a majority.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Stephen Harper was once a Alberta Separstist
Harper's Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada and other gems.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Like Medical User fees and want some Medical Services delisted? Stephen Harper Does
Canadian Press. "Harper also said co-payments by patients, USER FEES and DELISTING OF SOME MEDICAL SERVICES would help repair the Health System"
Stephen Harper "I think we're vastly over-invested in universities."
Stephen Harper on the importance of a university education.
"I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small"
"I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small"
Still a Conservative Majority, but NDP on the Move
Conservative pick ups
Kingston and the Islands from the Liberals
Brampton West from the Liberals
Brampton Springdale from the Liberals
Avalon from the Liberals
Madawaska-Restigouche from the Liberals
Vancouver South form the Liberals
Yukon from the Liberals
Winnipeg South Centre from the Liberals
Eglinton-Lawrence from the Liberals
York Center from the Liberals
Don Valley West from the Liberals
Ajax Pickering from the Liberals
Mississauga South from the Liberals
Richmond Hill from the Liberals
Guelph from the Liberals
London North Center from the Liberals
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe from the Liberals
Malpeque from the Liberals
Mississauga-Streetsville from Liberals
Bramalea-Gore-Malton from Liberals
NDP pick ups
Hull Aylmer from Liberals
Brossard-La Prairie from Liberals
Winnipeg North from the Liberals
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca from the Liberals
Saint John's Mount Pearl from the Liberals
Parkdale-High Park from the Liberals
Beaches-East York from the Liberals
Dartmouth-Cole Harbour from the Liberals
LaSalle-Émard from the Liberals
Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine from the Liberals
Halifax West from the Liberals
Jeanne-Le Ber from the Bloc
Ahuntsic from the Bloc
Compton-Stanstead form the Bloc
Alfred-Pellan from the Bloc
Laval from the Bloc
Brome-Missisquoi from the Bloc
Drummond from the Bloc
Gatineau from the Bloc
Saint-Lambert from the Bloc
Shefford from the Bloc
Louis-Hébert from Bloc
Vaudreuil-Soulanges from Bloc
Rivière-des-Milles-Îles from Bloc
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin from Bloc
Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou from Bloc
Saint-Maurice-Champlain from Bloc
Châteauguay-Saint-Constant from Bloc
Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier from Independent
Vancouver Island North from the Conservatives
Pontiac from the Conservatives
Surrey North from the Conservatives
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar from the Conservatives
Beauport-Limoilo from the Conservatives
Oshawa from the Conservatives
Jonquière-Alma from the Conservatives
Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles from Conservatives
South Shore-St. Margaret's from the Conservatives
Liberal pick ups
Haute-Gaspésie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia
Green pick ups
Saanich-Gulf Islands from the Conservatives
National
Conservatives 156
NDP 74
Liberals 47
Bloc 30
Greens 1
BC
Conservatives 20
Liberals 3
NDP 12
Greens 1
Alberta
Cons 27
NDP 1
Sask
Conservatives 12
Liberals 1
NDP 1
Man
Conservatives 10
NDP 4
Ontario
Conservatives 64
Liberals 22
NDP 20
Quebec
Bloc 30
Liberals 11
Conservatives 7
NDP 27
NB
Conservatives 8
Liberals 1
NDP 1
NS
NDP 5
Conservtives 3
Liberals 3
PEI
Liberals 2
Conservatives 2
NFLD
Liberals 4
NDP 2
Conservatives 1
Yukon
Conservatives
NWT
NDP
Nunavut
Conservatives
Kingston and the Islands from the Liberals
Brampton West from the Liberals
Brampton Springdale from the Liberals
Avalon from the Liberals
Madawaska-Restigouche from the Liberals
Vancouver South form the Liberals
Yukon from the Liberals
Winnipeg South Centre from the Liberals
Eglinton-Lawrence from the Liberals
York Center from the Liberals
Don Valley West from the Liberals
Ajax Pickering from the Liberals
Mississauga South from the Liberals
Richmond Hill from the Liberals
Guelph from the Liberals
London North Center from the Liberals
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe from the Liberals
Malpeque from the Liberals
Mississauga-Streetsville from Liberals
Bramalea-Gore-Malton from Liberals
NDP pick ups
Hull Aylmer from Liberals
Brossard-La Prairie from Liberals
Winnipeg North from the Liberals
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca from the Liberals
Saint John's Mount Pearl from the Liberals
Parkdale-High Park from the Liberals
Beaches-East York from the Liberals
Dartmouth-Cole Harbour from the Liberals
LaSalle-Émard from the Liberals
Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine from the Liberals
Halifax West from the Liberals
Jeanne-Le Ber from the Bloc
Ahuntsic from the Bloc
Compton-Stanstead form the Bloc
Alfred-Pellan from the Bloc
Laval from the Bloc
Brome-Missisquoi from the Bloc
Drummond from the Bloc
Gatineau from the Bloc
Saint-Lambert from the Bloc
Shefford from the Bloc
Louis-Hébert from Bloc
Vaudreuil-Soulanges from Bloc
Rivière-des-Milles-Îles from Bloc
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin from Bloc
Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou from Bloc
Saint-Maurice-Champlain from Bloc
Châteauguay-Saint-Constant from Bloc
Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier from Independent
Vancouver Island North from the Conservatives
Pontiac from the Conservatives
Surrey North from the Conservatives
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar from the Conservatives
Beauport-Limoilo from the Conservatives
Oshawa from the Conservatives
Jonquière-Alma from the Conservatives
Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles from Conservatives
South Shore-St. Margaret's from the Conservatives
Liberal pick ups
Haute-Gaspésie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia
Green pick ups
Saanich-Gulf Islands from the Conservatives
National
Conservatives 156
NDP 74
Liberals 47
Bloc 30
Greens 1
BC
Conservatives 20
Liberals 3
NDP 12
Greens 1
Alberta
Cons 27
NDP 1
Sask
Conservatives 12
Liberals 1
NDP 1
Man
Conservatives 10
NDP 4
Ontario
Conservatives 64
Liberals 22
NDP 20
Quebec
Bloc 30
Liberals 11
Conservatives 7
NDP 27
NB
Conservatives 8
Liberals 1
NDP 1
NS
NDP 5
Conservtives 3
Liberals 3
PEI
Liberals 2
Conservatives 2
NFLD
Liberals 4
NDP 2
Conservatives 1
Yukon
Conservatives
NWT
NDP
Nunavut
Conservatives
Liberals need to Focus on the Conservatives
The Liberals ability to attack the NDP is basically nil. Any attack on Jack Layton fuels the NDP is on the march narrative and that the Liberals are bleeding left and right. The Liberals need to focus their guns on the Conservatives. They stand a far better chance of being successful and the vast majority of their losses will come at hand the hands of the Conservatives. The NDP are nowhere in the 905. Most important of all the Liberals need to paint the Conservatives not themselves as having lost the most support.
The Liberals need to keep up their attacks on the health front. There is no doubt this has hurt the Conservatives. Second the Liberals need to paint Stephen Harper as once having been an Alberta separatist. This could be accomplished by repeatedly referring to Harper's Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada and emphasizing the following quotes.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
The Liberals need to keep up their attacks on the health front. There is no doubt this has hurt the Conservatives. Second the Liberals need to paint Stephen Harper as once having been an Alberta separatist. This could be accomplished by repeatedly referring to Harper's Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada and emphasizing the following quotes.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Angus Reid has the Liberals third in Ontario!
It is going to be near impossible to predict seat by seat switches at this rate. I will have a go on the weekend, but doubt my batting average will be very good. Last election was very easy to predict. I got 94% of seats right. This time I would be happy with 75%.
http://www.angus-reid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011.04.27_Politics_CAN.pdf
Changing topics, I would be remiss if I did not say Canucks win!
Update
False Alarm. SFU election polls had the Liberals at 27% and NDP at 30. However, if you go to Angus Reid site you see that the reverse is true. My bad and their bad. http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls-regional.html#ON
http://www.angus-reid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011.04.27_Politics_CAN.pdf
Changing topics, I would be remiss if I did not say Canucks win!
Update
False Alarm. SFU election polls had the Liberals at 27% and NDP at 30. However, if you go to Angus Reid site you see that the reverse is true. My bad and their bad. http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls-regional.html#ON
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Liberals need to Paint Stephen Harper as having been an Alberta Separatist
The really good Harper quotes fall into two categories; the ones on Health Care and the ones bashing Canada. The Liberals have started to use the first of these, but they badly need fit the later into some kind of narrative.
I would paint him as once having been an Alberta separatist. This could be accomplished by repeatly refering to Harper's Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada and emphasizing the following quotes.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
I would paint him as once having been an Alberta separatist. This could be accomplished by repeatly refering to Harper's Separation, Alberta-style: It is time to seek a new relationship with Canada and emphasizing the following quotes.
1) "Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status"
2) "Any country with Canada’s insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous."
3) "We [Alberta] are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values."
4) "It is to take the bricks and begin building another home -- a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."
5) "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
New Harper Quotes
1) Or his lament, also in 2002, that the Canada Health Act “rules out private, public-delivery options, It rules out co-payment, pre-payment and all kinds of options that are frankly going to have to be looked at if we're going to deal with the challenges that the system faces.”
2) “I'm not ashamed to say that, in caucus, I have more pro-life MPs supporting me than supporting Stockwell Day.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-collected-harper-quotes-that-could-come-back-to-haunt-him/article1998176/print/
3)on an Ipsos poll showing only 15 per cent of Canadians thought Canada should contribute troops to a unilateral attack on Iraq:
"I don't give a damn about the polls."
4) "I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/04/the-harper-quotes-dossier-a-sample.html
5) Febuary 24 2002 Canadian Press article was also meaty. "Harper also said co-payments by patients, USER FEES and DELISTING OF SOME MEDICAL SERVICES would help repair the Health System"
2) “I'm not ashamed to say that, in caucus, I have more pro-life MPs supporting me than supporting Stockwell Day.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-collected-harper-quotes-that-could-come-back-to-haunt-him/article1998176/print/
3)on an Ipsos poll showing only 15 per cent of Canadians thought Canada should contribute troops to a unilateral attack on Iraq:
"I don't give a damn about the polls."
4) "I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/04/the-harper-quotes-dossier-a-sample.html
5) Febuary 24 2002 Canadian Press article was also meaty. "Harper also said co-payments by patients, USER FEES and DELISTING OF SOME MEDICAL SERVICES would help repair the Health System"
Monday, April 25, 2011
Conservative Majority, NDP Official Opposition
I suspect I will be moving a lot more Bloc seats to the NDP and possibly more Liberal seats to the Conservatives. As things stand, I have the Conservatives with a majority, NDP as the official opposition and Liberals well on their way sharing the fate of Progressive Conservatives.
Conservative pick ups
Kingston and the Islands from the Liberals
Brampton West from the Liberals
Brampton Springdale from the Liberals
Avalon from the Liberals
Madawaska-Restigouche from the Liberals
Vancouver South form the Liberals
Yukon from the Liberals
Winnipeg South Centre from the Liberals
Eglinton-Lawrence from the Liberals
York Center from the Liberals
Don Valley West from the Liberals
Ajax Pickering from the Liberals
Mississauga South from the Liberals
Richmond Hill from the Liberals
Guelph from the Liberals
London North Center from the Liberals
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe from the Liberals
Malpeque from the Liberals
Mississauga-Streetsville from Liberals
Bramalea-Gore-Malton from Liberals
NDP pick ups
Hull Aylmer from Liberals
Brossard-La Prairie from Liberals
Winnipeg North from the Liberals
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca from the Liberals
Saint John's Mount Pearl from the Liberals
Jeanne-Le Ber from the Bloc
Ahuntsic from the Bloc
Compton-Stanstead form the Bloc
Alfred-Pellan from the Bloc
Laval from the Bloc
Brome-Missisquoi from the Bloc
Drummond from the Bloc
Gatineau from the Bloc
Saint-Lambert from the Bloc
Shefford from the Bloc
Vancouver Island North from the Conservatives
Pontiac from the Conservatives
Surrey North from the Conservatives
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar from the Conservatives
Beauport-Limoilo from the Conservatives
National
Conservatives 159
NDP 55
Liberals 52
Bloc 38
Independent 1
BC
Conservatives 21
Liberals 3
NDP 12
Alberta
Cons 27
NDP 1
Sask
Conservatives 12
Liberals 1
NDP 1
Man
Conservatives 10
NDP 4
Ontario
Conservatives 65
Liberals 24
NDP 17
Quebec
Bloc 38
Liberals 12
Conservatives 9
NDP 15
Independent 1
NB
Conservatives 8
Liberals 1
NDP 1
NS
Liberals 5
Conservtives 4
NDP 2
PEI
Liberals 2
Conservatives 2
NFLD
Liberals 4
Conservatives 1
NDP 2
Yukon
Conservatives
NWT
NDP
Nunavut
Conservatives
Conservative pick ups
Kingston and the Islands from the Liberals
Brampton West from the Liberals
Brampton Springdale from the Liberals
Avalon from the Liberals
Madawaska-Restigouche from the Liberals
Vancouver South form the Liberals
Yukon from the Liberals
Winnipeg South Centre from the Liberals
Eglinton-Lawrence from the Liberals
York Center from the Liberals
Don Valley West from the Liberals
Ajax Pickering from the Liberals
Mississauga South from the Liberals
Richmond Hill from the Liberals
Guelph from the Liberals
London North Center from the Liberals
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe from the Liberals
Malpeque from the Liberals
Mississauga-Streetsville from Liberals
Bramalea-Gore-Malton from Liberals
NDP pick ups
Hull Aylmer from Liberals
Brossard-La Prairie from Liberals
Winnipeg North from the Liberals
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca from the Liberals
Saint John's Mount Pearl from the Liberals
Jeanne-Le Ber from the Bloc
Ahuntsic from the Bloc
Compton-Stanstead form the Bloc
Alfred-Pellan from the Bloc
Laval from the Bloc
Brome-Missisquoi from the Bloc
Drummond from the Bloc
Gatineau from the Bloc
Saint-Lambert from the Bloc
Shefford from the Bloc
Vancouver Island North from the Conservatives
Pontiac from the Conservatives
Surrey North from the Conservatives
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar from the Conservatives
Beauport-Limoilo from the Conservatives
National
Conservatives 159
NDP 55
Liberals 52
Bloc 38
Independent 1
BC
Conservatives 21
Liberals 3
NDP 12
Alberta
Cons 27
NDP 1
Sask
Conservatives 12
Liberals 1
NDP 1
Man
Conservatives 10
NDP 4
Ontario
Conservatives 65
Liberals 24
NDP 17
Quebec
Bloc 38
Liberals 12
Conservatives 9
NDP 15
Independent 1
NB
Conservatives 8
Liberals 1
NDP 1
NS
Liberals 5
Conservtives 4
NDP 2
PEI
Liberals 2
Conservatives 2
NFLD
Liberals 4
Conservatives 1
NDP 2
Yukon
Conservatives
NWT
NDP
Nunavut
Conservatives
The Liberals Need to Attack the Conservative's Economic Record: they need to point to exploding Housedebt levels and Housing costs
The Liberals have run a better campaign this time around. They have done a good job contrasting their spending priorities to that of the Conservatives and their ads are better. That said, the Liberals focused far too much energy trying to play up the democracy angle at the beginning of the campaign, Ignateiff's performance in the English debate was very poor and Ignatieff's CBC interview was an unmitigated disaster. What is more the Liberals have failed to do two things. One, they have failed properly address the coalition question. Two, they have let Harper greatly overstate Canada's economic standing. When compared to other OCED countries Canada has not performed particularly well. We are middle of the pack.
Now, given the media's complicity in the second, there was probably not much the Liberals could do to put Canada's economic performance into proper perspective. However, the Liberals can still point to something that every Canadians knows, viz., exploding costs. Housing costs, in particular, have exploded under the Harper government and in no small measure this is the Conservative's fault. The Conservative government decided to pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market in 2006. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006. During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence.
The sheer folly of such actions have been underlined by the fact that ever since the downturn Flaherty has been scrabbling to undo some of the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th of this year he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market,"
The problem is it is too little too late. Household debt levels in Canada are out of control. Canada now has higher household debt levels than the US and some of the highest household debt levels in the world. This represents by far the biggest threat to the Canadian economy and housing costs are at the center of it all. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney, many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada and Canadians deep into debt. Private debt crisis has very real could easily morph into a public one as well. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
Of course, it is not just housing costs that are exploding. Tuition costs and childcare costs are also increasing far faster than the rate of inflation. The Liberals need to point these exploding costs and lay the blame at the Conservatives feet for either not doing enough or for making things worse.
Now, given the media's complicity in the second, there was probably not much the Liberals could do to put Canada's economic performance into proper perspective. However, the Liberals can still point to something that every Canadians knows, viz., exploding costs. Housing costs, in particular, have exploded under the Harper government and in no small measure this is the Conservative's fault. The Conservative government decided to pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market in 2006. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006. During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence.
The sheer folly of such actions have been underlined by the fact that ever since the downturn Flaherty has been scrabbling to undo some of the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th of this year he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market,"
The problem is it is too little too late. Household debt levels in Canada are out of control. Canada now has higher household debt levels than the US and some of the highest household debt levels in the world. This represents by far the biggest threat to the Canadian economy and housing costs are at the center of it all. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney, many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada and Canadians deep into debt. Private debt crisis has very real could easily morph into a public one as well. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
Of course, it is not just housing costs that are exploding. Tuition costs and childcare costs are also increasing far faster than the rate of inflation. The Liberals need to point these exploding costs and lay the blame at the Conservatives feet for either not doing enough or for making things worse.
We have Private Debt Crisis in Canada: the Liberals Need to Point this out
Tuition costs, child care costs, and housing costs are all going up way faster than the rate of inflation and on the flip side of things wages for a good chunk of the population have been frozen in real terms for decades.
Now what is true for Canada is true for most of the Western world. However, things are going down hill a lot faster in Canada than most other Western countries. Instead of introducing policies to curb the out of control costs of the aforementioned, Harper has either done nothing or he has introduced policies that have made things worse. Take housing. The cost of housing gone through the roof since 2006 and the main reason for that is the Conservative government decided pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006 During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence. Now in fairness to Flaherty, ever since the down turn he has been scrabbling to undo some of the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market," The problem is it is too little too late. The best Flaherty and Conservatives can do is prevent further damage. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada deep into debt. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
Wages are another example. The Conservatives decision to allow in a huge number of unskilled guest workers into Canada has hurt workers whose wages have been frozen in real terms of decades. To add insult to injury, Conservatives allowed temporary foreign workers to be brought by Gordan Campbell to work on projects associated with Canada's Action Plan. This meant that money that was designed to stimulate the BC economy was instead stimulating the recovery in Mexico instead. Most of the these workers were from Mexico.
Of course, when it comes to public spending, outside of Canada's Action plan the Conservatives have increased spending in areas (e.g., the military and corrections) that offer no direct financial benefit at all to Canadians.
The Liberals need to drive this point home by pointing out in ads just how much college tuition, housing and child care have gone up since 2006.
Now what is true for Canada is true for most of the Western world. However, things are going down hill a lot faster in Canada than most other Western countries. Instead of introducing policies to curb the out of control costs of the aforementioned, Harper has either done nothing or he has introduced policies that have made things worse. Take housing. The cost of housing gone through the roof since 2006 and the main reason for that is the Conservative government decided pour fuel on an already red hot real estate market. The Conservatives extended the mortgage amortization period from 25 years to 30 years in February 2006, extended it to 35 years in July of 2006 and extended it yet again to 40 years in November 2006 During this period they also reduced the needed down payment on second properties from 20% to 5% and allowed for 0 down on one's primary residence. Now in fairness to Flaherty, ever since the down turn he has been scrabbling to undo some of the damage his past actions have done. Flaherty first reduced amortization period from 40 years to 35 and again mandated a 20% down payment on secondary properties and 5% on primary properties in October 2008 and on March 18th he reduced the maximum amortization period to 30 years. Never once acknowledging that it was he who raised the amortization period to begin with, Jim Flaherty has repeatedly over the course of the last 2 and half years that reducing the amortization and increasing the minimum downplayment was the right thing to do. "In 2008 and again in 2010, our government acted to protect and strengthen the Canadian housing market," The problem is it is too little too late. The best Flaherty and Conservatives can do is prevent further damage. Weather it be Bloomberg, Paul Krugman and, if you read between the lines, Mark Carney many are worried that Canada is headed for a crash that would drive Canada deep into debt. For one thing, since 2006 Canadian mortgage and housing corporations liabilities have gone from 100 billion to 500 hundred billion. If the housing bubble bursts and Canadians start defaulting on their mortgages, the Canadian tax payer will be picking up the tab. The Canadian government guarantees all that debt.
Wages are another example. The Conservatives decision to allow in a huge number of unskilled guest workers into Canada has hurt workers whose wages have been frozen in real terms of decades. To add insult to injury, Conservatives allowed temporary foreign workers to be brought by Gordan Campbell to work on projects associated with Canada's Action Plan. This meant that money that was designed to stimulate the BC economy was instead stimulating the recovery in Mexico instead. Most of the these workers were from Mexico.
Of course, when it comes to public spending, outside of Canada's Action plan the Conservatives have increased spending in areas (e.g., the military and corrections) that offer no direct financial benefit at all to Canadians.
The Liberals need to drive this point home by pointing out in ads just how much college tuition, housing and child care have gone up since 2006.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
It is all about Ontario
What will determine whether there will be a Conversative majority is the gap between the Liberals and the Conservatives in the Province of Ontario. An 8% difference or more probably means a Conservative majority. Right now Nanos shows a 12 point gap.
Brampton West
Brampton Springdale
Eglinton-Lawrence
York Center
Don Valley West
Ajax Pickering
Mississauga South
Richmond Hill
Kington and the Islands
Guelph
London North Center
All of the above and maybe more are in danger of going blue.
The Liberal Plan for the next week is simple. Drive the Conservative vote below 40% in Ontario.
Brampton West
Brampton Springdale
Eglinton-Lawrence
York Center
Don Valley West
Ajax Pickering
Mississauga South
Richmond Hill
Kington and the Islands
Guelph
London North Center
All of the above and maybe more are in danger of going blue.
The Liberal Plan for the next week is simple. Drive the Conservative vote below 40% in Ontario.
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