'Science fiction' NDP platform, Ignatieff says

Michael Ignatieff is dismissing the NDP budgeting as "science fiction" that the Liberals have launched an attack all azimuth on Jack Layton.

The NDP is now taking heat from all sides because Liberals, the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are trying to push that Canadians from Layton party with more than polls suggest growing for her support.

The Liberals off radio anti-Layton and internet ads Saturday as Ignatieff went to Halifax to height Liberals to press for better access to medicines.

"It is time to consider carefully to what Jack Layton said the Canadian people." The numbers add up and up and up and up. And we're saying take a look at the program. We have an encrypted program, we make no promises, we cannot keep, "Ignatieff said."

"We can tell you exactly we not increase the taxes, and Mr. Layton received a platform which when you look carefully at it simply spending $ 30 billion which we think will be good for the economy and it comes from sources we believe just are credible... it is science fiction.".

The Liberals have also developed a statement claiming the NDP plan to raise funds through a system of limits and Exchange on carbon emissions will not work because it would take years to implement.

The most recent ad attacking liberal objectives in any attempt to Layton to portray himself as an outsider to the system, noting his 26 years in the dispute resolution policy. At the same time, it also labels candidates of his party as "inexperienced."

Advertising has also suggested that the party is not showing a position "principled" in support of registry and target NDP spending promises Federal gun.

The previous parliamentary session saw several members of the NDP rural constituencies and North to vote with the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois to block a conservative attempt to register the firearms of the scrap. Layton faced BLISTERING criticism by Liberals and the Bloc for its members a free vote on the issue.

Layton said in an interview broadcast Saturday on the home of the CBC Radio, he believes that the apparent increase in support is due to the Canadians taking a second look at "very concrete proposals" of his party, but also a growing sense of disillusionment with the status quo in the Parliament.

"We will just continue to work hard to build on this momentum, tell people that you have a real choice in this election," he told host Kathleen Petty.

"Ottawa must be changed, and we invite to join us to make this change happen."

Meanwhile Saturday, Conservative leader, Stephen Harper and Ignatieff were back on the campaign trail after a brief break for the start of the holiday weekend, Jack Layton sought to give a boost with campaign stops in the area of Toronto and Montreal.

Harper continued his push for a majority government at an event of campaign in Mississauga, Ontario.

"No matter what the combination of the opposition," Harper said Saturday. "We must put an end to the minority parliaments and elect a government strong conservative majority."

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, showed that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

New polls prompted a release by the Conservatives of an announcement of the new attack aimed squarely at Jack Layton. Ad slams Layton as "blindly ambitious" and willing to conspire with the block to form a Government.

In the election of 2008, according to her, "Layton began a coalition with the Bloc Québécois before planning our votes were even counted." He concluded: "it has done before." It will do so again. "And Canada will pay the price".

Friday, Paul Dewar NDP rejected as being based on "complete fabrications" and called the Tories to withdraw advertising.

Ignatieff will campaign in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island before the recapitulation of the day with a stop in Mississauga, where he will attend a service of Easter in the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius.

During this time, Green party leader Elizabeth may will campaign through the Colombia British Columbia, with stops in Saanichton and North Saanich.

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Castro welcomes "new generation" of leaders of Cuba, but called old guard - Christian Science Monitor

Mexico City

The theme of the sixth Congress of the party in Cuba seemed clear enough: President Raul Castro, opened the Summit Saturday saying that a new generation of Cuban politicians was necessary to ensure that the Socialist Revolution.

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Even former Cuban leader Fidel Castro seemed to embrace the message. "The new generation is called to correct and change everything without hesitation that must be corrected and changed", he wrote in the journal of State Granma.

But at the time where as the wrapped Congress Tuesday, the new leaders have been appointed to the Communist Party, and none of the three top positions went to any person under the age of 78, leaving the old guard in power and thwart these hungry Cubans of a political reorganization.

"Raul Castro said they had to bring new leaders, bring the new generation," says Wayne Smith, senior fellow at the Center for International policy in Washington and former American diplomat in Cuba. "But he appointed its long date no. 2 No. 2".

The Congress is important because Fidel Castro was appointed not the head of the party for the first time since its formation in 1965. Instead, Raul Castro will formally assume this role.

Cuban watchers were anxious to see if a young leader could be chosen as a position for a long time of Raul Castro as Second Secretary. But the veteran José Ramón Machado Ventura, 80, will take place, while Ramiro Valdes will resume the No. 3 role. Both have worked with the Castro brothers since at least the 1950s.

Raul Castro discussed the apparent contradiction in his closing speech. "We have kept several veterans of the historic generation, and it is logical from the consequences of the errors that have been made in this area," he was quoted by the Associated Press said in his closing speech. "These have stolen us a rear bench of mature substitutes with enough experience to take on the top positions of the country.".

Two young politicians were appointed to executive positions, including Marino Murillo, who oversees economic reform in Cuba. They could later groomed first positions. And even only rhetoric is a change that Mr. Smith sees as important.

"" At least they speak of the need to highlight the young generation, and do not have the same leaders decade after decade "says Mr. Smith." "" At least it is a sign encouraging that [Raul Castro] is talking about. ?

The Congress was the first in 14 years and comes in the midst of the economic changes that Raul Castro has made, including the announcement last fall that half million jobs a million State will be reduced. Delegates debated some 300 economic proposals, but few details were released. Instead, they stressed their commitment to future changes.

"It could have been a Congress that declared new policies with annexes to them... who appointed a bunch of new people," said Philip Peters, an expert at the Institute of Lexington from Cuba. "Instead of this he was a Congress who expressed commitments for future action."

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