Month: September 2019

Parties are promising to spend spend spend, but details scarce on how they’ll pay for it | CBC News

In this week’s newsletter: all the major parties are racking up big bills with their long lists of election promises, but how will they foot the bill? Also: how many voters are waiting to choose between parties — and can you help a family member with a disability to vote?
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-newsletter-issue-24-spending-promises-1.5292478

Singh vows NDP would double natural disaster support fund for communities | CBC News

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his government would more than double the disaster mitigation funds provided to communities. 
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-vows-ndp-would-double-natural-disaster-support-fund-for-communities-1.5293162

Liberals promise improved access to family doctors, mental health care and prescription drugs | CBC News

The Liberals are promising to ensure all Canadians have access to a family doctor, mental health services and prescription drugs, but have released few details about how a re-elected Liberal government would implement a national pharmacare program or how much it would cost.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-health-care-pharmacare-2019-1.5293645

Scheer promises to clear veterans benefits backlog if elected | CBC News

Andrew Scheer made a slew of promises to veterans on Sunday morning, including that a Conservative government would deal with the backlog of veterans benefits applications within two years. 
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-promises-to-clear-veterans-benefits-backlog-if-elected-1.5293109

Maxime Bernier says addressing Indigenous water issues a ‘first priority’ if elected | CBC News

The leader of the People’s Party of Canada says if his party gets elected, one of the first issues it will tackle is addressing boil water advisory issues in Indigenous communities across the country.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/peoples-party-of-canada-boil-water-advisories-1.5293979

Jagmeet Singh hopes to change Quebecers’ views on religious symbols | CBC News

Jagmeet Singh says an NDP government wouldn’t challenge Quebec’s religious symbols law in court — but he hopes his own public identity can change Quebecers’ minds about wearing religious symbols.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-religous-symbols-own-identity-bill-21-quebec-1.5294265

Why Andrew Scheer’s campaign platform sounds so … familiar | CBC News

Andrew Scheer’s pitch to Canadians in 2019 reads an awful lot like the proposals his old boss Stephen Harper used to great effect in past elections. But if the Conservative leader is campaigning to keep his party’s base intact, will that be enough to put him over the top?
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-campaign-promises-harper-trudeau-2019-election-1.5275774