Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • More Details On The Conservatives Platform

    From  Canadian Press
    Conservative party officials say their agenda, which they’re calling “Here for Canada,” will be divided into five separate priorities.


    It will include ideas for job creation, more support for seniors, a plan to cut the deficit, new crime laws and investment in the north.


    The Tories have already said the platform will also include a promise to compensate Quebec for harmonizing its sales tax.


    The plan will be unveiled at an event in Mississauga, Ont., where Harper will surround himself with the very voters he hopes the plan will win over.




    Also other key focuses of the platform will be dealing with the issue of human smuggling in Canada. Along with Eliminating subsidies for political parties if the Conservatives are granted a majority government. 

  • Conservatives To Release Platform

    It is expected tomorrow the conservatives will release their platform for the 2011 election. There’ll probably be  a significant focus on policies for Canadian families.  All indications are that the document will showcase the conservative party as strong stewards of the economy . In short a plan that Canadians from coast to coast can get behind.



     The Conservatives will release their platform on Friday in Toronto, setting the stage for their leader, Stephen Harper, to provide more detail to voters about what the party would do with the majority mandate it seeks.

    Harper will be at the campaign event where the platform is released, said the Tories’ national campaign chair, Guy Giorno.

    The move comes just one day before the two-week mark of the campaign, and several days before next week’s crucial televised leaders debates.

    “The platform has to come out at some point,” Giorno said in an interview. “This is the point in the campaign we thought was the appropriate time to lay it out for the voters.”

    It is expected that the platform will highlight the measures that the Conservatives proposed in their recent budget that was tabled before the government was defeated in the Commons. 

  • To vett or not to vett that is the question

    I wonder who’s doing the vetting process for liberal candidates in the big red tent.