Yesterday was day three of the 2016 federal election, Canada’s fifth in 12 years. Michael Ignatieff began in Toronto, where he highlighted the Liberal government’s successful drive to cut Conservative waste. Veteran MP Mark Holland took part in the press conference via hologram.
Their presentation, entitled, “2010: A Waste Odyssey,” included archive photos of the notorious “fake lake” that then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper built – with $2 million of taxpayers’ money – during the fiasco-filled photo-op that was the 2010 G20 (now the G23) Summit.
The Conservative Leader was in British Columbia, where he re-announced his party’s five-year-old commitment to do something to help families at some point in the future, if elected several times in a row. “The Conservative Party’s top priority has always been, and will always be, the financial security of hard-working, middle-class Canadian banks,” he said. “Oil companies are people, too.”
Back in Toronto, Michael Ignatieff campaigned in Chinatown – and enjoyed delicious dumplings from space – with Liberal MP Christine Innes, before teleporting to Mississauga to stump for Liberal MP Omar Alghabra.
Tomorrow, the Liberal campaign continues in Oakville and Vancouver. The NDP will be on another planet.
All joking aside, yesterday Stephen Harper announced that the Conservatives won’t help families until the biggest corporations have helped themselves to billions in tax giveaways.
Liberals have a different approach. This morning, Michael Ignatieff will be at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, to announce the single largest annual investment in non-repayable student assistance in Canadian history: the Canadian Learning Passport. (Get yours here.)
Conservatives tell families to wait their turn. Liberals help families build their future right now. We can’t afford to wait.
- A.G.
Adam Goldenberg is Michael Ignatieff’s speechwriter. He’ll be on the road with Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal team until election day. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/adamgoldenberg. Email him at adam@email.liberal.ca.
