Close X
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
ADVT 
National

Parties promise economic help as campaign begins

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Aug, 2021 09:51 AM
  • Parties promise economic help as campaign begins

The federal parties are beginning to lay out their plans to revive the country's economy after months of pain from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Liberals are promising to extend a hiring credit first unveiled in their recent budget, aimed at boosting payrolls.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole laid out his party's full platform, which similarly aims to create jobs, but also unwinds the Trudeau government's child-care system.

Meanwhile, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to pry money out of the pockets of CEOs who saw their compensation rise even as their companies received federal business aid.

The promises are all being laid out on the first full day of the federal election campaign after Gov. Gen. Mary Simon dissolved Parliament on Sunday at Trudeau's request.

Voters will head to the polls on Sept. 20.

Trudeau began his day in Longueuil, Que., and then heads to to Cobourg, Ont., with several stops along the way.

Singh is campaigning in downtown Toronto.

O'Toole is sticking to Ottawa, though he has "virtual telephone town halls" with communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario planned for the evening.

MORE National ARTICLES

Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes

Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes
The fact that glaciers around the world are shrinking due to climate change is well-established. What hasn't been so well studied is where all that water is going.

Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes

PBO: Business rent relief to cost $931M

PBO: Business rent relief to cost $931M
A federal spending watchdog says a program aiming to providing rent relief to small and medium-sized businesses will cost just under $1 billion this fiscal year.

PBO: Business rent relief to cost $931M

COVID pushes Vancouver Aquarium to close again

COVID pushes Vancouver Aquarium to close again
Ocean Wise, the non-profit organization that operates the aquarium, says in a news release the decision was made in response to one of the most financially challenging times in its 64-year history.

COVID pushes Vancouver Aquarium to close again

N.B. Liberals promise to eliminate use of herbicide

N.B. Liberals promise to eliminate use of herbicide
New Brunswick Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers is promising to gradually eliminate the provincial government's use of an industrial herbicide on Crown land over the next four years.

N.B. Liberals promise to eliminate use of herbicide

Canada signs more deals to get vaccines

Canada signs more deals to get vaccines
Deals are now in place for Canada to get access to vaccines being tested by both Johnson & Johnson and Novavax. Earlier this month Ottawa signed similar deals with Pfizer and Moderna.

Canada signs more deals to get vaccines

Crews race to put out fire fanned by winds

Crews race to put out fire fanned by winds
Wind gusts fanned the flames of a wildfire near a village at the southern end of Columbia Lake in British Columbia late Saturday, increasing the size of the blaze by about four square kilometres.

Crews race to put out fire fanned by winds