'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 is now taking heat from all sides because Liberals, the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are trying to push that Canadians from Layton party with more than polls suggest 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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Ignatieff blasts $11 b "hole" in the Tory platform

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is accusing conservative rivals of trying to conceal a $11 - FTAA "hole" in their platform of campaign that it suggests that a future Tory Government would fill by reducing federal health spending.

Ignatieff said Saturday that pledge from the conservatives to find the $ 11 billion in spending of savings over the next three years of the Government would have a "devastating impact" on the ability of the Government to serve Canadians.

The Federal deficit was projected by the Conservatives only two weeks ago to continue to refuse $0.3 billion in 2014-2015, and the Party expected that there would be a surplus of 4.2 billion in 2015 - 2016.

Platform of Conservative leader Stephen Harper, published Friday, included pledges to eliminate the Federal deficit a year earlier than planned in the budget to control spending and cut, as well as waste through the retirement of the federal public service.

The leader of the Liberal Party, said that the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty gave no explanation as to exactly how the Tories would savings, adding that the plan also undermines the credibility of the conservative party as tax managers.

Ignatieff has also said he could find only the Tories eventually cutting health transfers to the provinces and territories, despite the insistence of Flaherty transfers would remain intact even after the expiry of the current federal-provincial agreement in 2014.

"How are you supposed to enter health agreements 2014 with budget numbers that add up to?". Ignatieff said.

In an interview aired Saturday mornings on the CBC Radio House, Flaherty has said that he did not build the economies of the strategic review budgetary track "because we have not yet economies."

"The strategic review we watched is something that that we were told in the four months we have worked on the budget," Flaherty said host Kathleen Petty.

"We will booking nothing for 2011 - 2012." After that we can make some allowances. ?

Flaherty, stated that "aggressive" review is long as Canadians see the size of the Government continues to grow "topsy" year after year.

"It of just more officials, more and more programs and initiatives." We did not watched [spending] in 15 years the largest organization in the country, which is the Federal Government. ?

The conservative party issued a statement Saturday reiterating their commitment to increase funding for health at six per cent per year.

Hours before the inauguration of the platform Tory, Ignatieff has published an open letter on the financing of health care, promising to maintain the annual increase of six per cent after the expiry of the current provincial health care funding agreement.

Ignatieff Gage prompted Harper and head of the NDP Jack Layton promises to make similar.

Meanwhile Saturday, Jack Layton of the NDP campaigned in Saskatchewan, making stops at La Ronge and Saskatoon before heading to Toronto to unveil his party platform Sunday.

Jack Layton has appealed to voters send new deputies of the Democratic Party in Ottawa to fight for better health care and accessibility improved Saskatchewan.

"Ottawa is broken and only Democrats can fix," he told a rally of about 700 people in Saskatoon.

Harper is not the events of the campaign planned for Saturday, in Kitchener, Ontario, to watch his son play play Ben in a provincial volleyball tournament.

In its place, the Tories sent conservative candidate John Baird and Lawrence Cannon for the interviews with the media in Ottawa, the second in a row Saturday, that they have been made available to the press.

As has said Baird, that conservatives have provided a plan focused on improving the financial security of Canadian families and by completing the economic recovery. Conservative candidates criticized the Liberal platform, they called an agenda "tax expenditure".

Ignatieff said he believes that Canadians want to hear a message of "practical hope" set focus on what Government can do for them.

"It is a big country, hope, optimism, and I really do not think that Mr. Harper appeals to fear," he said.

He added that he is looking forward to go face to face with Harper in the French debate and English on Tuesday and Thursday.

"I will of course be nervous going into the debate, but I feel well in this regard," he said.

Ignatieff performs several cases in the Toronto of vote-rich region on Saturday. A demonstration in Vaughan, Ontario, Liberal leader urged people to come in big red attempts to beat the conservative candidate Julian Fantino, Rosemary Barton of CBC reported.

Green party leader Elizabeth May and Eric Walton, candidate of the Green Party for the Kingston and the Islands, speak of supporters during a stop of the campaign in Kingston, Ontario, on Thursday. Lars Hagberg/Canadian Press

Fantino won a victory of the narrow partial Federal for the Tories in November, taking what was once a Liberal stronghold.

The Green party leader Elizabeth May, out of his party earlier this week, held a "Rally for democracy" in Halifax to protest against the decision by the broadcast consortium to exclude debates of the Directorate.

A crowd of supporters chanted "GPC democracy!" and "E may, on the road!" before the talks about leader of the Green Party.

She criticized the decision of the broadcast consortium to keep Clarke the debate and stated that it would continue its fight to be included.

"I really hope I'm there Tuesday night", she said. "I keep my clear calendar."

Earlier this week, a federal judge decided that the Court will hear not that Green Party before next week televised debates arguments.

Bloc Québécois Gilles Duceppe will make campaign Metabetchouan-Lac-a-la-Croix, Jonquière and Saint-Fulgence.

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