The Tories may claim the Canadian economy is looking strong, but that’s not the message coming from the International Monetary Fund. ![]() Our Canada Child Benefit will lift 60K kids out of poverty in Quebec alone – that's every seat in the Big O! #elxn42 /D9hUqxJHgO Trudeau stood in the middle of an empty Olympic Stadium on Tuesday morning in Montreal to explain that his child care plan would help get 60,000 kids in Quebec out of poverty-enough to fill the same stadium that once hosted the Montreal Expos. The announcement came the same day as the release of his party’s full election platform, which also included an investment of $750 million per year over the next four years for First Nations education.Īnd, when the formal Q&A was done, Trudeau had loads of selfie requests, which prompted a parting question from Vice.Ĭan turn selfies into votes? /X4mYWzee3i With Justin Trudeau now finding himself leading some polls, the Liberal leader took part in a town hall hosted in Toronto by Vice on Monday evening, where he pledged to put an end to boil-water advisories on First Nations reserves within the next five years. The subsidies to the auto sector are just as damaging as the tariffs they replace, except the taxpayer pays them rather than the consumer. Good news for the auto sector, but for the rest of us? ![]() Harper’s pledge also comes a day after announcing $4.3 billion in compensation to farmers negatively affected by the TPP deal. To alleviate those worries, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Whitby, Ont., on Tuesday to announce that, if re-elected, his government would invest $1 billion over 10 years (starting in 2017-18) in the Automotive Innovation Fund. The Canadian auto workers’ union, Unifor, warned that the tentative Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal could cost Canadians in their industry 20,000 jobs.
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