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Counterpoint to the Meanness of Stephen Harper’s Tories

With the NDP in Parliament to keep the Liberals honest, and hold them to the promises made in their Family Pack, the following is a response to Harper’s Conservatives, for a more caring and compassionate Canada …

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Michael Ignatieff’s / The Liberal Party platform

  • A Pan-Canadian Learning Strategy, including a $500-million fund that would rise to $1 billion within four years for early childhood learning, and funding for aboriginal education, workforce literacy, language training for New Canadians, and access to higher education and training to build the best-educated, most skilled workforce in the world

  • A Family Care Plan. $1 billion for family caregivers to enhance care for parents, grandparents and sick loved ones, to help reduce the pressure on hundreds of thousands of struggling Canadian families

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