Category: Conservative politics

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. 

Teacher Union Enters Partisan Politics

From National Post


Call it what you will. For the 33% of union delegates that voted against the measure, it’s a compulsory political donation to a cause that they might not personally support. Further, it cannot be assumed that those teachers who choose to serve as conference delegates are reflective of the rank-and-file teachers they represent. This might be defensible if teachers’ membership in the union was voluntary. It isn’t. Those who wish to pursue the high calling of educating the province’s youth are in effect being forced to subsidize a political campaign if they wish to remain in their profession.


Funny Mr. Ryan has no problem almost copying verbatim the Ontario Liberal party line. Even going as far to use similar rhetoric as prominent Ontario Cabinet ministers. This election the Conservative grassroots more than ever have to dispel the myths and misperceptions spread by  Liberal friendly third parties.

Hudak is Not Campaigning Against Teachers

Let’s set the record straight before the partisan shots start flying this fall.

From  Toronto Star

Hudak says he comes from a family of teachers and had support for classroom education ingrained in him at the dinner table growing up.

He says some teachers have been emailing and calling the opposition party to say they don’t support their union’s decision to campaign against him.

Hudak wants teachers to judge him on the PC campaign platform, which has yet to be released, and predicts they’ll be impressed.