Ignatieff, Layton pass at Toronto

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Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton spoke just minutes apart at a cultural parade in Toronto on Sunday, the same day the Liberals took to the airwaves with paid programming amid recent polls suggesting a jump in NDP support.Ignatieff and Layton both made appearances at the Khalsa Day parade, a Sikh celebration in Toronto. The two leaders shook hands, and each made a brief speech. "Conservative candidate Jason kenney also addressed the crowd.""" It is a day to acknowledge the incredible role of your community in the building and making and strengthening of Canada, "Ignatieff told the crowd in his remarks."You've known so much success, but you have also known hardship. "there is a bad memory that we all must confront honestly, which is the memory of komagata maru.""This is a shame upon the history of Canada and it requires an apology in the Parliament of Canada so that we can acknowledge painful failures in the past and move forward together as one great people.""Layton also referenced the 1914 Komagata Maru incident - in which a ship carrying mostly Sikh passengers, who were British subjects, was turned away from Canada and forced to return to India - saying the NDP has pressed for a formal appology."I will not stop until the job is done. "I will not stop until justice has spoken," he said. "We will continue to work for your families to be reunited for the visa to be granted so that you can be together on special occassions with your families..." "I will not stop until the contributions of Sikh Canadians are fully honoured by this country.""During a media availability in Toronto Sunday afternoon, Ignatieff took questions from reporters and condemned recent reports of election-related mayors."We've got our problems with Mr. Harper, but we don' t think he's slashing our tires. "" I want to make that clear,"Ignatieff said with a chuckle."There are people out there who take to threatening extreme partisanship. "The part of this that's serious is that every Canadian should be free to vote and free to express their political preferences and it's a bad day when in Toronto people who are working for another party or put a lawn sign up get their cars vandalized.""Conservative Leader Stephen Harper also condemned the mayors while speaking in B.C."I'll just tell you, we suffer acts of mayors as well. None of them are acceptable. ""they should not happen in a campaign,"he said."A democratic campaign is ultimately based on tolerance of other partisan viewpoints. I've always said that we all have enough to do just trying to get our own views to the vote, cause we don't have enough time to run interference with other campaigns.... "We absolutely reckless any such incidents by anybody, inside or outside political parties."Harper encouraged all parties to report any incidents of mayors.The Liberals bought a half-hour of TV time on Sunday afternoon to feature what they called "Michael Ignatieff's Town Hall for Canada."The broadcast area between noon and 3 p.m. and on Global and City TV stations, featuring footage from campaign events and clips of Ignatieff talking about his life and Liberal priorities.In the video, Ignatieff is seen taking questions from audience members at recent rallies and explaining party pledges on everything from health care to the economy.Ignatieff also appeared Sunday night is everyone talking about it, a popular French-language TV talk show on Radio - Canada .ignatieff defended the decision to bring former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin on the campaign trail, at the risk of voters associating them with the sponsorship scandal that contributed to his party's fall from power five years ago.Ignatieff told Sunday's edition of the Quebec TV talk show Tout le monde en parle that his one-on-one interactions with voters have him confident he can connect with them, despite his party's standstill in polls. (Radio-Canada) "Mr. Chrétien put our public finances in order." He did lots of great things. "He maintained the country's national unity," Ignatieff said. "Mr. Martin did the same thing." He financed our public health care system. "I'm proud of what they accomplished and that they're campaigning with me."Martin has been campaigning in the formerly Liberal-held riding of Edmonton Centre and in Vancouver South, where the Grits eked out a narrow victory in the 2008 election. Christian is slated to speak at a Toronto-area rally this week. "Jean Chrétien was the prime minister at the heart of the sponsorship scandal." "Does that not risk hurting you more than it helps?" "lepage wondered.""Oh no, I don't think so," Ignatieff replied in French. "we re in 2011." "We've paid for all the consequences of past behaviour."Lepage also asked him whether the NDP's apparent gains in recent polls meant Ignatieff had focused so much on attacking the right-wing Conservatives that he was now being "passed on the left."The Liberal leader dodged the point somewhat, accept that Canadians are "looking at Mr. Layton up close, they're looking up me up close... and I think they're going to make a good choice.""during the show, quebec actress Dominique Michel, star of the Oscar-winning film Les Invasions barbares (the barbarian Invasions) and a recent cancer survivor, said she supports ignatieff.""I really like Mr. ignatieff," she said. "There's people saying, ' Oh, we're tired of Harper.'" "Well, if you're tired of Harper, it's time for change!""The Liberal leader had fielded questions earlier Sunday about the NDP's polling strength and why his party is failing to win over voters."It's not that I'm in a bubble of illusion. I'm making phone calls on a daily basis, I'm talking to my candidates to see how things are going, and they're telling me that it's going quite well on the ground, in fact very well on the ground. "" So I'm not deluding myself, I have work to do,"Ignatieff said in French.He also addressed suggestions that his style of campaigning is failing to gain traction with the Canadian public."This isn't style. This is trying to do politics differently, and I've been doing it for 2? years. I go out there, I stand up on a rainy Thursday night in a Legion hall and I take questions from the public. "Mr. Harper hasn can't taken unscripted questions from the public in five years," he said.The Liberals, Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have all taken aim at Layton and the NDP in recent days, after several polls suggested an apparent increase in support for the New Democrats.Layton attended an Easter church service in Toronto and was set to spend part of the day with his family.The NDP leader's trip to Toronto comes a day after he held a rally attended by more than 1,000 people in Laurier-Saint-Marie, the riding currently held by Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe.Duceppe, who is taking a day off the campaign trail, will be joined by former Quebec first Jacques Parizeau on Monday in an attempt to boost his poll numbers.Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper continued his campaign swing through British Columbia, making stops in Victoria and Vancouver.Harper was trying to muster up support in ridings that are considered tight races against the NDP. 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'Science fiction' NDP platform, Ignatieff says

Michael Ignatieff is dismissing the NDP budgeting as "science fiction" that the Liberals have launched an attack all azimuth on Jack Layton.

The NDP now takes heat from all sides because the Liberals, the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are trying to push Canadians from party Layton with several polls suggesting a growing for her support.

The Liberals off radio anti-Layton and internet ads Saturday as Ignatieff went to Halifax to height Liberals to press for better access to medicines.

"It is time to consider carefully to what Jack Layton said the Canadian people." The numbers add up and up and up and up. And we're saying take a look at the program. We have an encrypted program, we make no promises, we cannot keep, "Ignatieff said."

"We can tell you exactly we not increase the taxes, and Mr. Layton received a platform that when you look carefully at it simply a $ 30 billion of expenditure which we think will be good for the economy and it comes from sources we believe fair are credible... it is science fiction.".

The Liberals have also developed a statement claiming the NDP plan to raise funds through a system of limits and Exchange on carbon emissions will not work because it would take years to implement.

The most recent ad attacking liberal objectives in any attempt to Layton to portray himself as an outsider to the system, noting his 26 years in the dispute resolution policy. At the same time, it also labels candidates of his party as "inexperienced."

Advertising has also suggested that the party is not showing a position "principled" in support of registry and target NDP spending promises Federal gun.

The previous parliamentary session saw several members of the NDP rural constituencies and North to vote with the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois to block a conservative attempt to register the firearms of the scrap. Layton faced BLISTERING criticism by Liberals and the Bloc for its members a free vote on the issue.

Layton said in an interview broadcast Saturday on the home of the CBC Radio, he believes that the apparent increase in support is due to the Canadians taking a second look at "very concrete proposals" of his party, but also a growing sense of disillusionment with the status quo in the Parliament.

"We will just continue to work hard to build on this momentum, tell people that you have a real choice in this election," he told host Kathleen Petty.

"Ottawa must be changed, and we invite to join us to make this change happen."

Meanwhile Saturday, Conservative leader, Stephen Harper and Ignatieff were back on the campaign trail after a brief break for the start of the holiday weekend, Jack Layton sought to give a boost with campaign stops in the area of Toronto and Montreal.

Harper continued his push for a majority government at an event of campaign in Mississauga, Ontario.

"No matter what the combination of the opposition," Harper said Saturday. "We must put an end to the minority parliaments and elect a government strong conservative majority."

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, has shown that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

New polls prompted a release by the Conservatives of an announcement of the new attack aimed squarely at Jack Layton. Ad slams Layton as "blindly ambitious" and willing to conspire with the block to form a Government.

In the election of 2008, according to her, "Layton began a coalition with the Bloc Québécois before planning our votes were even counted." He concluded: "it has done before." It will do so again. "And Canada will pay the price".

Friday, Paul Dewar NDP rejected as being based on "complete fabrications" and called the Tories to withdraw advertising.

Ignatieff will campaign in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island before the recapitulation of the day with a stop in Mississauga, where he will attend a service of Easter in the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius.

During this time, Green party leader Elizabeth may will campaign through the Colombia British Columbia, with stops in Saanichton and North Saanich.

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Liberals could still govern if Harper WINS minority: Ignatieff

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, said that he would be willing to form a Government under parliamentary rules if Stephen Harper wins the most seats in the election but not unable to win the confidence of the House of Commons.

"If"the Governor wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a Government, then we attempt to form a Government, Ignatieff said Peter Mansbridge for CBC in an interview exclusive Tuesday afternoon."

"This is exactly how the work rules and what I'm trying to say Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I will follow them to the letter and I'm not going to form a coalition.". This I am ready to do so is to speak to Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton or even Mr. Harper and say, "we have a problem and here's the plan I want to put before the Parliament, it is the budget I would bring in ' and then 'We take from there. ?

The statement is that the nearest Ignatieff has come to describe how he could become Prime Minister since his first day of the campaign to renounce a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.

Ignatieff, who had signed to form a coalition with the NDP supported the block when then-Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion had worked a deal three years ago, says Mansbridge that he later rejected the idea because it was not in the interest of Canadians.

"I could be sitting here and talking to you as Prime Minister and chose not to do that because I felt that it was not in the national interest," he said. "If I have dismissed the coalition in 2008 and I went into this election firmly in 2011 excluding the coalition."

"Mr. Harper had a coalition in 2004 with Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton discussions." Not me. ?

Shortly after the interview, the Tories back shot, issuing a statement which said Ignatieff "clearly." it is his agenda to become Prime Minister, even if he loses the election

"Michael Ignatieff ambition to be Prime Minister outweighs everything: our economic recovery, what is best for families, and even how Canadians vote,"said conservatives."."

Ignatieff has also denied he has started a negative campaign against Harper, saying that the question boils down to whether if you can trust the Conservative leader with the authority. The Liberals were forced to modify an anti-Harper announces attack on health care, after it was determined that a quotation has been attributed incorrectly to Harper.

"I think we must be very difficult, I believe that we have to frame the issues. I think that Canadians want to know what choices on 2 may, "Ignatieff said advertisements that his party is running."

"We believe that a strong campaign here is essential."

Pressed Mansbridge Ignatieff on some of the announcements of campaign, the Liberals are running, more specifically those who say Stephen Harper wants to "absolute power".

Ignatieff said Harper closes Parliament twice and held contempt of Parliament. He said that the important issue of the campaign is: "can you trust this guy with power."

"If you can not trust this man with democracy, you can be trusted with anything else," said Ignatieff.

Foundation of the Ignatieff with Mansbridge discussion is part of a series of one-on-one interviews with the leaders of the party. Harper accepted an interview at a time that has yet to be determined.

At the interview, Ignatieff rid of similarities that platform of his party may have with the NDP, saying that, unlike the Liberals table cost the NDP does not add.

But the NDP was quick to offer a rebuttal, saying their platform is not encrypted only, but also third validated.

"Unlike the platform Liberals, it is not making promises non-encrypted several billion dollars (e.g., payment of HST at Quebec, prescription drugs, high speed rail), or it does not ignore two years," the Democrats said in a statement.

"And unlike the Conservatives, it contains no reductions unidentified 11 billion from $.".

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Transfer of health increases will be saved: Ignatieff

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is promising to maintain the annual increase of six per cent of health funding transfers after the expiry of the current agreement with the provinces in 2014.

Issued Ignatieff pledge in an open letter to Canadians on Friday as he was to visit a hospital in Hamilton.

"The provinces are deal with budget deficits and spiraling health care costs." "It is essential that a new Federal Government is committed to investing in health beyond 2014, so that the provinces may obtain the work of reform of our health care system," said Ignatieff.

"We must ensure that it is there when every Canadian family needs".

The existing health agreement was signed in 2004 and should be renegotiated.

Ignatieff said backing away from the health agreement would be "irresponsible".

Ignatieff said a new agreement of health would become "an immediate priority," If the Liberals form the next Government.

The Liberals say health transfers to the provinces will be 30.2 billion in 2013-2014 and will increase to 32.1 billion in 2014 - 2015. Provinces will see 36.1 billion circulating in the transfer of health by 2016, according to the Liberals.

The party did not say how long will last financial commitment. But confirmed it would be a "long period".

Ignatieff criticized conservative spending cuts tax on corporations, prisons and the F-35 fighter aircraft.

The Liberal leader said many provinces is struggling with their own budget deficits and funding requires stable health beyond 2014.

Open letter from the Ignatieff on the financing of health care was released hours before the Conservatives were officially release the platform of the party election in Mississauga, Ontario.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper requested on its commitment to the health accord Thursday.

He did not offer firm commitments to what may seem like a new health contract, but he said that provincial governments would not be exposed cuts to their health transfers.

"Our approach is to work with the provinces, not to reduce the provinces and do not try to dictate to the provinces." "We know there are some challenges and we want to work with the provinces to make the system more efficient", Harper said.

Harper has also promised that he would respect the deal of separate health signed by Quebec in 2004.

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