Election 2008 Federal Leaders’ Debate (Full Video)

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The five federal party leaders debate the election issues in the English language debate.


Google Video 

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (+1 rating, 1 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...

Green Party releases first election ad

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

The Green Party has released their first television ad of the election.

Tags: , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...

Greens allowed in debates after boycott reversal

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

The media consortium that produces the televised leaders’ debates reversed yesterday’s decision and announced it will allow the Green Party to attend the debates on October 1st and 2nd.

The change comes after the NDP and Conservatives bowed to public pressure and withdrew their threats to boycott the debates if May attends. The Conservatives, NDP and Bloc argue the Green Party should be excluded from debates because Elizabeth May has publicly endorsed Stéphane Dion and other Liberal candidates in the election.

Stéphane Dion has supported including May in the debates since the two parties formed an alliance last year.

Do you agree that Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the televised leaders debate during the next federal election?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Tags: , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (+1 rating, 1 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...

Green Party excluded from leaders’ debates

Monday, September 8th, 2008

The media consortium that produces the televised leaders’ debates says Green Party leader Elizabeth May will not be invited to the debates in October.

The media consortium implied one or more political parties threatened to boycott the debates if the Green Party were included.

The Conservatives, NDP and Bloc all oppose including the Green Party in the debates, saying Elizabeth May is a Liberal proxy because she has endorsed Stéphane Dion and other Liberal candidates in the election.

The Liberal Party has advocated in favour of including the Green Party since the two parties formed an alliance last year.

Do you agree that Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the televised leaders debate during the next federal election?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (+2 rating, 2 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...

Greens claim spot at TV leaders’ debate

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she should be included in the televised leaders’ debates during the upcoming federal election.

May argues the Green Party has earned the right to be included in the debates now that Blair Wilson, a sitting Member of Parliament, has crossed the floor and joined the party.

Do you agree that Green Party leader Elizabeth May should be included in the televised leaders debate during the next federal election?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Tags: , , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...

Tories dominate political fundraising in 2007

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The Conservative Party raised more money in 2007 than all the other political parties combined, according to data released by Elections Canada. The Conservatives earned 62% of the fundraising dollars, while the Liberal Party raised 18%.

For the first time, more people donated money to the NDP than to the Liberal Party.

Contributions to Political Parties
(2007, Elections Canada)

Conservative
Liberal NDP Green Bloc
Total number of contributors 159,122 35,783 53,110 12,003 5,038
Total amount of contributions $16,990,766 $4,537,966 $3,979,737 $984,605 $430,061
Transfers from registered associations $16,000 $331,683 $352 $21,026 $33,379
Transfers from candidates $5,282 $331,683 0 0 $1,855
Total Transfers $21,282 $368,249 $352 $21,026 $35,234
Grand Total $17,012,048 $4,906,215 $3,980,089 $1,005,631 $465,296
Percent of Total 62.2% 17.9% 14.5% 3.7% 1.7%

The government’s Accountability Act came into effect on January 1, 2007 and imposed new limits on political donations that forbids political donations from corporations, trade unions, associations and other groups.

Now only individual Canadians to contribute, and only up to a limit of $1100 per person, per calendar year to each registered political party.

The new fund raising rules have proven to be a challenge for the Liberal Party whose finances heavily relied on large donations from corporations, trade unions and special interest groups.

Tags: , , , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (+1 rating, 1 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...

Canada and climate change at the 2007 G-8 meeting

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

May 28 to June 8, 2007 - Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes Canada’s climate change plan to the G-8 meeting in Berlin, saying it can be an example to other nations of how a country can reduce greenhouse gases outside the Kyoto framework.

Harper pressed for an inclusive approach that would allow nations currently without Kyoto targets, who together produce 70% of the world’s greenhouse gases, to participate in an international agreement in the post-Kyoto round of negotiations.

Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, environmentalist David Suzuki continue their opposition to the government’s plan, saying Canada must meet its Kyoto targets beginning 2008.

Leaders at the G-8 agreed for the first time to work toward absolute cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thumbs DownThumbs Up (+1 rating, 1 votes)
Loading ... Loading ...