I watched it. Should have tried listening as per revsdd Maybe i will next time.
i am not a fan of Trudeau at all. But the NDP are scary.
The press all talk about the close race. I really dont know how they would have any idea.
In this election alone i have done five political polls on my cell phone. And two on my house phone. One was very obviously done by the liberals with the questions horribly slanted. But the others were the standard polling companies.
So if i am getting called so many times, my guess is that so are all the other people being polled. They dont know how people think because they keep asking the same people and getting the same answers
The biggest difference between the NDP's position and the Liberals is that the Libs are the ones that want to run a deficit for a few years - Justin did a switcheroo for political effect - and Mulcair thinks it's not necessary (I don't care, it's a shell game - as long as the worse off have better opportunities that's what I care about). Mulcair wants to tax rich CEOs by taking away stock options, Trudeau wants to tax them by taxing the personal income of the top 1% more. They are both ways of getting more taxes from the wealthiest - but Trudeau has to stand out as different because he wants himself and the Liberal brand to win. It's just a little bit different idea for doing the same thing, though.
NDP proposes cap and trade on industry that harms the environment - to make way for a clean energy economy- because carbon tax doesn't lower emissions it just makes people pay more money for them. While that may put more money in the purse it doesn't stop environmental damage done.
The Quebec/ Mulcair fear mongering is a red herring. He is not a seperatist. He proposed that 50%+1 is how referendums have always been, and he thinks that is a fair number, not that he wants it to happen. It won't happen if Quebequoise are happy with the Canadian government, anyway. There was a referendum before and seperatists lost, and they are even less of a force now.
The Conservatives are out of touch with what ordinary people need vs. what the most well off want. The old stock comment was a kicker.
Mulcair pointed out Trudeaus recent seitcheroos, including the deficit plan, and C51 because it kind of shows he's making it up as he goes along to try to win the election.
I think that given that the Libs and NDP are only nominally different in economic views, in actuality, Mulcair would make a better leader. Justin's just annoying.
