Canada's New Democrats

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About someone who actually cares about what happens to our environment, someone who walks the talk as they say, instead of the right wing useless platitudes from the Liberals and the Conservatives.

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Fight heating up over ‘no-fly’ lists

Washington is pushing its way into Canadian security matters where it doesn’t belong, charged NDP leader Jack Layton.

    “This is certainly a step towards the kind of deeper integration between our two countries that I think a lot of Canadians are concerned about.”

Too bad the Liberals and the Conservatives don't have the kuhones to stand up to these US bullies.

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Trust me more Canadians care about the budget being passed than anything whatsoever to do with SSM.

The clock is ticking Mr Martin.

You had better stop dithering or you're going down in flames:

Martin May Seek to Extend Parliament Session to Pass Budget

Martin may be forced to call an election if the budget isn't passed in June. New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, 54, has said his support of the Liberals depends on the plan winning passage before the recess. Martin added C$4.6 billion ($3.7 billion) to the budget in April to persuade the opposition New Democrats to support the legislation, whose defeat would result in the ouster of the government.

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Mayors to party leaders: pass the budget now

"Bring the budget to a vote" was

the message from the mayors of Canada's 22 largest cities at their meeting

today in St. John's, NL.

    The mayors, who form the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Big City

Mayors Caucus (BCMC), were meeting in St. John's in advance of FCM's annual

conference, which takes place here from June 3-6.

    They discussed the impact on their cities and other municipal governments

if the federal budget with its provision to share the federal gas tax with

municipal governments doesn't pass the House of Commons before summer recess.

    "My city and many municipalities across the country have built these

promised funds into our budgets," said Pat Fiacco, Mayor of Regina and Chair

and the Caucus. "If this budget doesn't pass soon, our communities will be

looking at severe consequences. There is no room for delay."

    In addition to the $ 5 billion transfer of gas tax revenue contained in

the February budget, budget legislation is also before the House with

provisions for investments of up to $800 million for public transit and

$1.6 billion for affordable housing.

Do you think Jack Layton's New Democrats are heroes to these mayors, or what, eh! 

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The NDP's problem is nobody in Canada really wants a CAW government.

[bigdude]

You Liberals are obviously are not interested in the working person in Canada, but we will see what direction the political parties are going in, with the next batch of polls, which are sure to appear soon.

[bigdude]

You're lookin' mighty fine this evening Jack!

Mayors want gas-tax share

They're calling for the federal government's budget to be passed before the summer break.

JOE BELANGER,

London Free Press City Hall Reporter   

2005-06-03  

 

Canada's largest cities, including London, are demanding political leaders approve the federal budget before their summer break to get gas-tax dollars flowing.

If not, many cities will be in financial trouble, warns Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco.

"Many municipalities (including London) have already built that money into their budgets and face serious consequences," DeCicco said yesterday from St. John's, Nfld.

"We're asking all party leaders to set aside their partisan interests and get it passed before the summer."

The mayors, who form the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' big city mayors' caucus, are meeting in St. John's in advance of the federation's annual conference starting today.

Three federal leaders, Prime Minister Paul Martin, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, are expected at the conference.

Martin addresses the gathering Sunday, while Harper speaks to delegates tomorrow and Layton on Monday.

DeCicco said a top priority will be to convince the leaders to get the minority Liberal government's promised gas-tax money to municipalities.

London included about $3 million of the gas-tax money in this year's budget. The revenue is almost the equivalent of a one-per-cent tax hike.

The federal government's budget included a promised five cents a litre of federal gas taxes to municipalities over five years.

An estimated $500 million is to be sent this year, increasing to $5 billion in 2009.

London was to get $4 million this year, increasing to about $21 million over the five years.

Also contingent on the budget's approval is a new, two-year, $800-million federal program to upgrade the nation's transit systems. London Transit could get up to $8.8 million under that program.

"Is anyone listening? Well, we'll know when they start moving forward on this," DeCicco said.

Several other city council members are attending the conference, including controllers Russ Monteith, Bud Polhill and Gord Hume and councillors Bernie MacDonald, Sandy White, David Winninger, Harold Usher and Susan Eagle.

The mayors also discussed the developing municipal-federal partnership. They want Martin to bring in measures to improve federal-municipal co-operation.

"We need a long-term partnership," said federation president Ann MacLean.

So far we have this forcasted budget, but just wait for the money to start trickling into these city coffers, to help with transit costs, to help students with their ridiculous costs for higher education, to help families with child care and housing. The New Democrats will be laughing all the way to the polls.

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Bigdude, please shorten your quotes to three lines or so. If you don't, I'll have to report you to Greg for copyright infringement and you may be banned.

[Technocrat]

London Free Press City Hall Reporter   

Are you from London?! Just curious.

[bigdude]

Nope.

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NDP Champions EI Reform

The Layton New Democrats will definitely pick up voter support for this move.

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Layton now calls for Dosanjh & Murphy to step aside:

Ethics commissioner investigating Grewal secret tape affair

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I find it disturbing that Layton would pander to this tory sleaze element.

[bigdude]

If there is any white trash in all this it is the government - the Liberal party! Where is that puke button? :angry:

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If there is any white trash in all this ...

What did you just say?

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Fight heating up over ‘no-fly’ lists

Washington is pushing its way into Canadian security matters where it doesn’t belong, charged NDP leader Jack Layton.

    “This is certainly a step towards the kind of deeper integration between our two countries that I think a lot of Canadians are concerned about.”

Too bad the Liberals and the Conservatives don't have the kuhones to stand up to these US bullies.

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Weren't you the one that said we don't need a military because we have the United States to defend us? Don't make me go find your quote. Now you're going to cry when the United States creates no-fly areas in Canadian territory. Give me a break, you've already sold the country out on the issue, now you're double-talking.

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The NDP's problem is nobody in Canada really wants a CAW government. 

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Amen to that!

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If there is any white trash in all this it is the government - the Liberal party!  Where is that puke button?  :angry:

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Nothing like tossing around caucasian racist remarks to make a point.

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Oh boo! hoo!

[bigdude]

The New Democrats need to take the money and run.

As soon as this New Democratic budget is passed, Jack needs to move as far away from these Liberal slimeballs as soon as possible.

Unless of course there are some additional offers on the menu.

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The New Democrats need to take the money and run.

As soon as this New Democratic budget is passed, Jack needs to move as far away from these Liberal slimeballs as soon as possible.

Unless of course there are some additional offers on the menu. 

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Obviously you don't see the need to clarify your glaring contradictions. Tell me, am I to expect you to just copy and paste ad nauseum from now on? If so I'll be more than happy to add you to my ignore list, kinda like the rest of Canada has done to the NDP party for years.

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You need to lighten up - it's the weekend!

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bigdude --

If there is any white trash in all this ...

What did you just say?

It is a term that we use in North America for scum.

As long as PM Martin and his entourage are in control of the Liberal party, Liberals had better get used to it.

1- It is an abusive term used against caucasian people in poverty or the "lower classes". It's a realy strange thing for an NDP supporter to say. IF you are an NDP supporter and not a tory posing as one.

2- Given that the evidence now clearly shows the Liberals did nothing wrong in dealig with Gurmant-baby, you ought to come clean and retract these sorts of statements.

3- Please stop moving your answers to my posts to other unrelated threads. It makes following the conversation very difficult.

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Layton tells Canadian municipal leaders to push MPs for 'New Democrat budget’

NDP Leader Jack Layton appealed to municipal politicians Monday to cast aside their political stripes and do whatever they can to get the federal budget passed.

The 2005 budget - "our budget" - is a major victory for Canadian towns and cities, Layton told delegates at the annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

And if they want the billions in infrastructure, housing and transit funding it contains, municipal leaders must keep pressure on their area MPs to either vote for it or not to vote at all, he said.

"This is going to be a close vote. It's going to be a vote that'll be very tough," Layton said of the two budget bills, which passed first reading by a single vote and face two more readings before becoming law.

Over the next two weeks, town councillors and mayors should meet with their members of Parliament, he said.

"Ask that member of Parliament to rise above any partisan consideration and ask them to either support the budget, or if they can't do that . . . to at least stand aside or find some way to get it through this summer," said Layton, a former federation president himself.

Yup Jack sure has a has a valid concern.

If this budget is not passed there's going to be a lot of anger in our gentle land.