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The Conservative Party launched a campaign attacking Stéphane Dion’s proposed carbon tax shift plan by portraying it as a ‘tax on everything’.
The campaign includes the website WillYouBeTricked.ca and 15 second video adverts displayed at gas pumps throughout Canada.
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Loading ...Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Liberal leader Stéphane Dion has backed away from his Throne Speech ultimatum in which he threatened to defeat the government unless it meets 4 Liberal Party demands.
All three Opposition parties have set conditions for supporting the Throne Speech, and an election will be called if they follow through on their threats.
However, Stéphane Dion now says he will take a ‘wait and see’ approach. The change comes amid ongoing divisions in the Liberal Party, and after an October 13 Ipsos-Reid poll showing 40% of Canadians would vote Conservative, and 67% think Canada is moving in the right direction.
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February 15 to 27, 2007 - The government lost their motion to extend measures of the Anti-Terrorism Act due to a sudden and unexplained change in the Liberal position.
There was speculation that Stéphane Dion’s sudden policy change was influenced by indo-Canadians in the Liberal Party led by Navdeep Bains, who delivered some 250 delegates to Dion at a crucial point in the Liberal leadership race.
Having won a Supreme Court challenge in 2003, the RCMP was proceeding with investigations into the Air India attack using the now expired “Investigative Hearings” provision of the Act.
In the House of Commons, the Liberals prevented Harper from reading a Vancouver Sun article reporting that Bains’ father-in-law is on a list of people the RCMP would like to question using the now expired “Investigative Hearings” provision.
Despite whipping the vote, 14 Liberal MPs did not vote along party lines. One Liberal MP broke ranks and voted with the government, one abstained, and twelve were absent from the House during the vote.
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February 5, 2007 - Stéphane Dion, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff and John Baird in Question Period on the Opposition motion to force the government to honor its Kyoto Accord commitments, and whether Canada’s Kyoto targets can be met.
In 2008, I will be part of Kyoto but I will say to the world I don’t think I will make it.
- Stéphane Dion
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