Canadian Federal Election - Week 1

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http://news.ca.msn.com/federal-election-2011/cp-article.aspx?cp-documentid=28232778

By The Canadian Press, thecanadianpress.com, Updated: April 3, 2011 7:25 PM

Liberal platform lures Tory brickbats


"OTTAWA - Michael Ignatieff tried to conjure some long-lost Liberal magic Sunday with a glitzy, red-sheathed campaign platform worth $8 billion to Canadian households and financed by higher corporate taxes.

Almost instantly, the so-called "Liberal Family Pack" attracted a barrage of brickbats from rival campaigns: Conservatives denounced it as tax-and-spend politics of the worst kind, while the NDP cited a long Liberal history of broken Red Book promises.

The centrepiece of Ignatieff's two-year, budget-style platform shifts government spending to nation-building projects and incentives for Canadian households, all of it financed by reversing Conservative tax cuts for the business sector.

"I want to show you this thing; it's a big, serious document here," the Liberal-leader-turned-talk-show-host beamed during a high-tech town-hall campaign event in Ottawa, brandishing the 94-page platform to the delight of a crowd of supporters.

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