'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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NDP platform commits "immediate action".

The NDP said that it would take "immediate action" in five key areas within 100 days of the election, in a broader forum aims to balance the books in 2014 - 2015, without major service cuts.

Leader of the NDP, Jack Layton, stated that the "practical, affordable plan" would eliminate the deficit without major service cuts.

The platform to balance the budget by increasing the rate of 19.5% corporate tax, which is estimated to almost $ 10 billion in 2014-2015 Government coffers. The party would also collect income to put an end to subsidies of fossil fuels and saving on the legislation of the crime.

The party that also committed to cracking down on offshore tax havens, a move he said could generate more than 3 billion dollars a year by 2014-2015.

NDP, Jack Layton leader unveils his platform of the party Sunday in Toronto a few days before the leaders debates. Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press

"Despite what they say, Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff say Canadian families to wait at the back of the line,"Layton said to a crowd of supporters after the NDP platform was officially opened Sunday morning.""

The platform describes five first "practical steps", which many were announced earlier in the campaign, including:

Hiring more doctors and nurses.In collaboration with the provinces to strengthen systems of retirement, with the ultimate objective of the duplication of benefits.Giving small businesses a tax cut and introducing targeted job creation tax credits.Recovery of the costs of credit card for the first 5 per cent, while taking the federal sales off the coast of heating tax home.Work of "fix" Ottawa to stop scandals and to encourage cooperation between the parties.

"I put my commitment," said Layton. "Concretely within 100 days to give your family a break and I won't stop it until work is completed."

Layton, who was a critique of the harmonized sales tax, has also promised a package of compensation of $ 2.2 billion for Quebec for the implementation of the HST.

"It is simply a matter of fairness," Layton said when asked about the about-face akin a conference press following the announcement of the budget.

"When you are dealing with the finances of the nation and the respect for the citizens of different regions of the country who are in different situations...". It is true that compensation is justified. ?

Jack Layton has also said that an NDP Government would not British-Colombia require to repay $ 1.6 billion in transfers TSC, which has already been spent on the health care and education, even if the voters in this province rejected in a referendum next harmonized sales tax.

The platform included a number of commitments announced earlier, including help for caregivers, a defence policy that prioritizes the ships of the Navy instead of fighter aircraft and a crime prevention and community safety which would cost approximately $ 255 million program.

It includes also plans to create more affordable housing, to reduce poverty and improve access to post-secondary education and child care.

The NDP has also pledged to extend care for the elderly, including by improving the financing of loans-grants help keep elderly in their homes, helping families renovate their homes to create secondary suites for the senior family members and resolve the shortage of long-term care beds.

The NDP said that it would put a price on carbon through a system of limits and Exchange, with revenues from the new system to go to green initiatives.

The party also returned Sunday the theme of "fix" a system broken in Ottawa, saying that it would work to abolish the Senate and to limit the power of the Prime Minister to prorogue Parliament.

"I think that many people just shake their heads at what they see going on in Ottawa," Jack Layton said.

"We have to reform our democracy, and that means working towards a form of proportional representation in our country, and we are committed to that."

The NDP won approximately 18% of the vote in recent elections and are hoping to make gains this time. Jack Layton has been positioning himself as a solid alternative to the Conservative leader Stephen Harper campaign stops across the country.

The conservative candidate James Moore blown Sunday NDP platform, saying the party platform is poorly designed and does not serve Canadian interests.

"What we see today in the NDP platform is clearly a platform which was designed to raise taxes, hurting Canadian families and long term, to make it easy for a coalition Government to happen,"Moore said. ".

"It is the smallest platform of national parties, has the least amount of detail in the platform".

Moore accused the NDP of being a party focused on higher taxes and a coalition Government.

"It contains some of the ideas of the NDP has failed, tired routine." The ideas of the NDP of the increase in taxes, to make more big government and taking the country in a direction which will not all be... Canadians. ?

Moore, said that the platform is not designed for "a modern Canada, with low taxes and a balanced by 2015 budget."

The Conservatives, Liberals and the Greens have already published their platforms.

Conservative election platform included pledges to eliminate the Federal deficit by 2014-2015 - one year earlier than planned in the budget on March 22.

When he unveiled the conservative platform in Mississauga, Ontario, said Harper that he would find it efficiency through a review of the costs of operating and strategic.

He also said that the Conservatives would also be pushing an agenda tough on crime and support to families and businesses.

The Liberals have focused on families in their platform, installation of the five priority areas in their strategy of two-year $ 8 billion.

The Liberal platform included support for early childhood education, post-secondary students and persons to take care of elderly parents or sick parents. It also includes changes to the pension system and a green renovation tax credit.

The Green Party said that it increase the corporate tax at 2009 levels and charge $ 60 per ton of carbon emitted - but they have promised a "green tax shift" which would reduce the contributions of EI and CPP for workers and employers in revenue.

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Ignatieff blasts $11 b "hole" in the Tory platform

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is accusing conservative rivals of trying to conceal a $11 - FTAA "hole" in their campaign platform.

Ignatieff said Saturday that pledge from the conservatives to find the $ 11 billion in spending of savings over the next three years of the Government would have a "devastating impact" on the ability of the Government to serve Canadians.

The Federal deficit was projected by the Conservatives only two weeks ago to continue to refuse $0.3 billion in 2014-2015, and the Party expected that there would be a surplus of 4.2 billion in 2015 - 2016.

Platform of Conservative leader Stephen Harper, published Friday, included pledges to eliminate the Federal deficit a year earlier than planned in the budget to control spending and cut, as well as waste through the retirement of the federal public service.

The leader of the Liberal Party, said that the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty gave no explanation as to exactly how the Tories would savings, adding that the plan also undermines the credibility of the conservative party as tax managers.

In an interview aired Saturday mornings on the CBC Radio House, Flaherty has said that he did not build the economies of the strategic review budgetary track "because we have not yet economies."

"The strategic review we watched is something that that we were told in the four months we have worked on the budget," Flaherty said host Kathleen Petty.

"We will booking nothing for 2011 - 2012." After that we can make some allowances. ?

Flaherty, stated that "aggressive" review is long as Canadians see the size of the Government continues to grow "topsy" year after year.

"It of just more officials, more and more programs and initiatives." We did not watched [spending] in 15 years the largest organization in the country, which is the Federal Government. ?

Ignatieff has also suggested that the Tories would eventually cutting health transfers to the provinces and territories, despite the insistence of Flaherty, that transfers would remain intact even after the current federal-provincial agreement expires in 2014.

"How are you supposed to enter health agreements 2014 with budget numbers that add up to?". Ignatieff said.

The conservative party issued a statement Saturday reiterating their commitment to increase funding for health at six per cent per year.

Hours before the inauguration of the platform Tory, Ignatieff has published an open letter on the financing of health care, promising to maintain the annual increase of six per cent after the expiry of the current provincial health care funding agreement.

Ignatieff Gage prompted Harper and head of the NDP Jack Layton promises to make similar.

Meanwhile Saturday, Jack Layton of the NDP will be campaign in Saskatchewan, making stops at La Ronge and Saskatoon before heading to Toronto. Sunday, Layton is set to unveil his party platform.

Harper is not the events of the campaign planned for Saturday, in Kitchener, Ontario, to watch his son play play Ben in a provincial volleyball tournament.

In its place, the Tories sent conservative candidate John Baird and Lawrence Cannon for the interviews with the media in Ottawa, the second in a row Saturday, that they have been made available to the press.

As has said Baird, that conservatives have provided a plan focused on improving the financial security of Canadian families and by completing the economic recovery. Conservative candidates criticized the Liberal platform, they called an agenda "tax expenditure".

Ignatieff will swing the vote-rich Toronto region on Saturday and attend a barbecue of campaign in Woodbridge in the afternoon, followed by a rally in the cafeteria of a secondary school in Toronto.

Ignatieff said he believes that Canadians want to hear a message of "practical hope" set focus on what Government can do for them.

"It is a big country, hope, optimism, and I really do not think that Mr. Harper appeals to fear," he said.

He added that he is looking forward to go face to face with Harper in the French debate and English on Tuesday and Thursday.

"I will of course be nervous going into the debate, but I feel well in this regard," he said.

Leader of the NDP, Jack Layton is set to unveil his party platform Sunday in Toronto. Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press

The Green party leader Elizabeth May, out of his party earlier this week, will hold a "Rally for democracy" in Halifax to protest against the decision by the broadcast consortium to exclude debates of the Directorate.

Earlier this week, a federal judge decided that the Court will hear not that Green Party before next week televised debates arguments.

Bloc Québécois Gilles Duceppe will make campaign Metabetchouan-Lac-a-la-Croix, Jonquière and Saint-Fulgence.

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