Conservative MP Eve Adams Defects to Liberals - Full News Conference
Full news conference in which (now former) Conservative Member of Parliament Eve Adams and Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau reveal that she is g...
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Ralph Goodale, the old Liberal warhorse who served as finance minister under Paul Martin, got up in the Commons last week. In the nine years since the government took office, he said, job creation has been half of what it was in the nine years before. The nine years before would be when the Liberals were in power.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded by defending his job creation record, citing the troubled world economic environment. Fair enough.
Then he reached for the cyanide. The Liberals, he declared, would turn Canada into another debt-drenched Greece. His government had achieved good results by pursuing sound economic policies, reducing taxes, focused investment, balancing our budget, all of the things the Liberal Party opposes, all of the things the Liberal Party would reverse to give us the kind of result we have in Greece.
Sitting down for lunch with Mr. Goodale the next day, I referenced the Hellenic comparison. Mr. Goodale chuckled. He ran through a string of economic performance comparisons. Under the Liberal Chrtien and Martin governments, he noted, the average GDP growth rate was double what its been under the Conservatives. The Tory rate a 1.7 per cent average is the lowest posted by any Canadian government since the 1930s.
The member from Saskatchewan went on. Under the Liberals, there were nine straight surpluses beginning in 1996. Under the Conservatives, a string of seven deficits. On the pertinent matter of national debt (as per any Greek comparisons), it went down significantly under the Liberals but has gone up by more than $160-billion under Mr. Harper. The Liberals posted not a single trade deficit while the Harper Conservatives have had one practically every year. The Conservatives have been more impressive on tax cuts, although the Liberals did bring in one of the largest in history. On employment, its no contest the Liberals in a walk.
Circumstances need to be noted. The Liberals did not have a brutal global recession with which to contend, but they did inherit a then record $42-billion deficit in 1993. And they did leave the Conservatives a cushy $13-billion surplus and a smiling set of fiscal and regulatory conditions.
Why would Mr. Harper resort to the Grecian slander? If he had the Liberals broader historical record in mind, that wasnt wise either. Studies show that economic growth has been on average more than 2 per cent higher under Liberal governments than under Conservative ones. On budget balancing, the Tory historical record is one to run from.
Much in the respective records has to do with timing, circumstance and the turn of fortune. Conservative prime minister R.B. Bennett, for example, served during the Great Depression. But even Pierre Trudeau, considered one of the weakest Liberal economic performers, posted GDP numbers more than twice as high as the Harper government.
All this said, youd never know it from the way Canadians view the respective parties. In most every poll out there, they rank the Conservatives as the better economic managers.
Whats the deal? I asked Mr. Goodale. Spin, he replied. The Tories have added countless numbers of flacks to the government payrolls, giving them a huge advantage over opposition parties in weaving tall tales. Spin is their No. 1 priority. Policy is secondary.
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The Country Liberals (CLP) would face a massive electoral defeat in the Northern Territory if an election was held immediately, according to new poll figures.
But voters are not turning to Labor, which has only increased its primary vote by one-and-a-half points to 38 per cent.
The primary vote of the ruling CLP, under the leadership of Adam Giles, has collapsed by 20 per cent according a News Corp/ReachTel telephone poll of 1,036 people across the main population areas of Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs on Sunday.
One-in-four voters think Mr Giles is doing a good or very good job, while half of voters think he is doing a poor or very poor job.
Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie is now the preferred candidate for Chief Minister with 36 per cent of respondents choosing her when asked who would make the Territory's better leader. Mr Giles rated 30 per cent.
Willem Westra van Holthe, now the deputy to Mr Giles but who announced himself as the chief minister during the botched coup attempt to oust Mr Giles in February, was chosen by 11.6 per cent of respondents as preferred Chief Minister.
Labor's deputy leader Michael Gunner rated 22 per cent.
On a two-party preferred basis, 38 per cent of respondents said they supported the CLP, down from 56 per cent at the 2012 election when the Terry Mills-led CLP took power.
The new polling results had 62 per cent choosing Labor, a bounce back from the 44 per cent at the 2012 election when they lost government.
The poll's margin of error is 3 per cent.
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Adam Giles-led Country Liberals Government facing crushing NT electoral defeat, new poll figures
Sam Harris on Islam - Message to the Left/Liberals
Sam Harris touches on Islam in a very honest way here and it #39;s time the liberals understand why they need to start standing up and being critical of Islam also.
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Co-chairs of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Alina Gorghiu and Vasile Blaga on Saturday have launched the Liberal governance program and announced the start of negotiations with all political parties, except with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) to change the current government. Before giving the assault to PSD, Gorghiu and Blaga go to seek European support from the European Peoples Party (EPP) political family. PNL co-chairs Alina Gorghiu and Vasile Blaga will attend the meeting of the European Peoples Party Political Assembly, to be held in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. The two PNL co-chairs will have a meeting with the EPP President, Joseph Daul on Monday evening, PNL announces in a release on Sunday.
Liberals place the draft of the governance program under public and internal debate
Liberals have kept their promises and drew up their governance program inthe established term limit. The National Liberal Party (PNL) on Saturday presented its draft governance program and placed it under public and internal debate, after the unification committee of the party approved the document.
The program will set the grounds of the partnership with Romanias President Klaus Iohannis, for the achievement of the project Romania of things well-done, PNL co-chairman Vasile Blaga told a press conference on Saturday aimed to presenting the principles of this program for Romania.
As we promised on January 5, today, on February 28, the PNL unification committee approved the draft of the PNL governance program, Blaga announced, quoted by Agerpres.
The program, directed towards the development of the middle class and of the domestic capital, also places emphasis on education and health, assumes all commitments deriving from Romanias quality of EU and NATO member, but also takes into account the national particularities, and will be launched to public and internal debate, going to be approved in the partys leadership forums in early April, according to Blaga.
The governance program proposed by the Liberals observes the Centre-Right doctrine of the PNL and the European Peoples Party (EPP), the PNL co-chairman added.
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Liberals place the draft of the governance program under public and internal debate