Since Trudeau took the helm 21 months ago, the Liberals have been leading in most opinion polls, followed closely by the Conservatives. The NDP has fallen to a distant third. Mulcair, who has consistently out-performed Trudeau in the House of Commons, at first ignored the Liberal leader. Then he started questioning Trudeaus competence. Last fall he began unveiling key platform planks in a bid to showcase his policy depth, in contrast to Trudeaus refusal to release a platform before the election campaign. The New Democrat sharpened his attack Thursday as he trashed the governments economic record and touted his party as the champion of struggling middle-class families. Thats the same mantle Trudeau has donned, but Mulcair maintained that only the NDP has the experience and policy depth to replace the Conservatives. He emphasized his own 35 years in public service, including serving as a Quebec cabinet minister and his background as the second of 10 kids born to a middle-class family that worked hard, played by the rules and lived within our means. He contrasted that with Trudeaus upbringing, implying that the Liberal leader was born into privilege as the eldest son of a former prime minister and believes he can just inherit power without proposing a thing. huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/15/thomas-mulcair-justin-trudeau-2015-election_n_6478378.html
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:40:45 +0000
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