Fixed election dates would make it easy for aspiring politicians to plan their lives, NDP leader, Jack Layton said Friday in Montreal, as he defended a candidate to take a vacation mi-campagnes beach.
Jack Layton, said candidate of his party in Ajax-Pickering booked a trip to the Caribbean, a year - long before he could have known an election would be called.
"It is a meat cutter in a local grocery store and he promised to his family to be able to pause, finally, and he made this choice," Layton said in Montreal.
"It is going to be out there fall on doors, don't worry about it.".
Resort candidate Jim Koppens: "it is going to be out there fall on doors, don't worry about it." (Facebook)Jack Layton told journalists that the candidate, Jim Koppens, will be on the election campaign when he gets home next week.
"If we had fixed election dates, it would be a little easier for workers to plan their lives," said Layton. He added that he had not yet spoken of Koppens.
One of the first acts of the Harper after Government win the 2006 campaign has been to set fixed election dates every four years, but the Prime Minister has ignored its own legislation in 2008 by calling an election just two years into his mandate early.
A call to a phone number on Facebook of Koppens page was not immediately returned.
Ajax-Pickering shaping up to be a tight two-way race between the Liberals and the conservatives.
Outgoing liberal Mark Holland held the electoral district of the years, but the Conservatives are running a candidate in high - profile Chris Alexander, former Ambassador of the Canada in Afghanistan.
In the last election, Holland took the district with about 45% of the vote. Another conservative candidate was the finalist, with approximately 38 per cent. The NDP has completed a third remote, with approximately nine per cent of the votes.
The Conservatives have spent lots of money to try to win the riding. In the 2008 campaign, the Conservatives spent $ 88,000 - near the defined limit for the district - compared to $53,000 by the Liberal campaign. NDP candidate Bala Thavarajasoorier campaign spent about $1,500, according to election Canada.
The conservative war room was quick to pounce on the candidate of resort.
"It is clear that the NDP is prepared to sacrifice votes in competitive districts in the greater Toronto area to help their partners in the coalition of the Liberal Party," Alykhan Velshi campaign spokesman, said in an e-mail.
Layton is disabled in the Atlantic Canada for the weekend. It was intended to stop Friday at the East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown.
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