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Political Cartoon - Liberals (Jason Tian)

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Political Cartoon - Liberals (Jason Tian)

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Source: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/06/26/Can-You-Trust-Justin-Trudeau/

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Liberal Ad Attacks Mulcair, Promises "Real Change Right Now"

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A Liberal Party of Canada ad voiced by its Leader, Justin Trudeau, attacks New Democratic Party of Canada Leader Tom Mulcair for not proposing to move quickly enough on NDP promises. By contrast, Justin promises instant gratification.

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Liberal Ad Attacks Harper:  "Over & Over"

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A change ad voiced by Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau.

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Canada's New Democrats / Le NPD du Canada

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Canada's New Democrats / Le NPD du Canada

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Federal election 2015: Keep on top of election trends with CBC's Poll Tracker

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CBC analyst Éric Grenier tracks party support to project who could win the 2015 federal election. Follow the race to the finish line with Poll Tracker and explore the latest numbers region by region and poll by poll.

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Justin Trudeau vows to 'bring Canadians together' at Brampton rally

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Justin Trudeau vows to 'bring Canadians together' at Brampton rally

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised Sunday to replace Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's "small and meek and fearful" vision of Canada with one that is "open and confident and hopeful" as he campaigned in front of thousands of cheering party faithful at a Brampton, Ont., arena.

"Franklin Roosevelt said, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Well, Stephen Harper has nothing to offer but fear itself. Fear of terrorism. Fear of the world beyond our borders. Fear of each other," Trudeau said.

"Well, let me tell you something. Fear makes us weak, not strong. The prime minister's job is to bring Canadians together, not to tear us apart."

The Conservative campaign has emphasized banning face-covering religious garb at citizenship ceremonies, revoking the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorism and cracking down on what the Conservatives have called "barbaric cultural practices."

'The prime minister's job is to bring Canadians together, not to tear us apart.' - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau

Trudeau said the Conservatives under Harper "have brought unprecedented nastiness" to public life.

"For 10 years, Stephen Harper has never missed an opportunity to divide Canadians. East against West. Urban against rural. French against English. So-called 'old stock' Canadians vs newcomers," he said.

"His first instinct is to appeal to the worst instincts."

At least 5,000 supporters attended the rally, held in one of the country's most ethnically diverse cities where half the residents are immigrants for whom the prospect of two classes of citizenship is particularly worrisome.

Trudeau was introduced to the crowd by his wife, Sophie Gregoire.

She quipped the long campaign may have led her husband to call the Bloc Québécois leader 'my love' in French during the French debate on Friday.

"You know, he does have beautiful blue eyes but when your husband starts calling Gilles Duceppe 'mon amour,' you know it's been too long," she said.

Ads aim at Harper

The Liberals will release their full platform on Monday, which will include some new spending commitments, but they say it's all accounted for in their previously unveiled fiscal framework.

It will come a day after the Liberals launched a suite of new ads - three television and two radio spots - aimed squarely at Harper.

The ads contrast what Trudeau depicts as the Conservative leader's dismal economic record with the Liberal prescription for immediate "real change" to boost growth, create jobs and put more money in the pockets of struggling middle-class Canadians.

Only one makes a passing mention of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, whose party began the campaign as the front-runner but is now flagging in the polls.

Trudeau maintains that Harper has latched onto the niqab controversy and other hot-button issues as a distraction from his economic record, which is the sole focus of the new Liberal ads.

They hammer away at the theme that the Conservative leader is tired, out of touch and out of ideas to get Canada's stagnant economy growing again.

"You know what they say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result," Trudeau intones in one TV ad as the screen fills with multiple shots of a dour-looking Harper over the years, buttoning his suit jacket as he rises to speak in the House of Commons.

"Stephen Harper has had 10 years to get our economy moving and he's failed. His plan for moving ahead? More of the same. Harper thinks everything is fine but our middle class is falling behind."

The ad then cuts to a cheerful, youthful Trudeau, shirt sleeves rolled up, tie loosened, striding purposefully across the grounds of Parliament Hill as he recites the pillars of his economic plan: "Raise taxes for our wealthiest one per cent, cut them for our middle class and invest now in jobs and growth. That's real change."

Mulcair mentioned in one ad

In one radio ad, Trudeau promises to cancel child benefit cheques to the wealthiest one per cent - "and I'll do it now," he says.

The emphasis on immediacy in all the ads is a veiled dig at Mulcair, who is mentioned by name only in the other new radio ad, directed specifically at Torontonians.

In that ad, Trudeau opines that "the traffic in Toronto is unbelievable." He then trumpets his plan to "triple federal investment in transit over the next four years" - and says that's something neither Harper nor Mulcair can promise "because they want to balance the budget in Year One."

During Sunday's rally in the Toronto suburb, Trudeau accused Harper of being too out of touch with Canadians to understand traffic gridlock.

"Stephen Harper just doesn't see what you're going through. When you spend a decade in a motorcade, you don't have to worry about traffic jams. That's what happens when you've been in power too long," he said.

Trudeau is promising to run deficits of less than $10 billion for each of the next three years in order to almost double the federal investment in new infrastructure.

with files from The Canadian Press

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Trudeau vows to 'bring Canadians together' at Brampton rally

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"Mr. Mulcair, I will never tell my young daughter that a woman should cover her face because she's a woman."

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Conservatives ad against Liberals  (Jason Tian)

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http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/why-the-numbers-behind-the-ndps-minimum-wage-promise-dont-add-up/

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The New Democratic Party has proposed reinstating the minimum wage for workers in federally regulated industries and increasing it to $15 by "the end of our first term in office" (presumably, 2019). But how many workers will directly see their wages go up from this measure? It turns out to be fewer than you may think.

This question has caused a great deal of controversy, in part because there have been no serious attempts to model the effects of this proposal. This, in itself, reflects very poorly on the state of Canadian democracy, as voters are being asked to judge a proposal without being given the tools to do so.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008. The 416 number is factually accurate, but completely irrelevant for analyzing the policy; New Democrats have correctly pointed out that what matters is not how many federally regulated workers made minimum wage, but, rather, how many would be making less than $15 an hour. Using that very same study, they estimate the number is 100,000. However, they did not attempt to account for factors such as differences in employment levels between 2008 and 2019, as well as differences in nominal wages between the two years, including the fact that Alberta will already have a $15 minimum wage in place by 2019, so this federal minimum proposal will not directly boost the wages of any workers in that province.

Let's attempt to model the effects of employment and wage growth to see how many federally regulated workers would be directly affected by a $15 federal minimum wage in 2019.

As a starting point, I will attempt to recreate the NDP's results by using the same study on federally regulated workers. The study breaks workers down into a number of wage categories, and shows that, in 2008, out of the 820,216 workers in federally regulated industries, one per cent had hourly wages of under $10, four per cent had hourly wages between $10 and $12.49, and 10 per cent had hourly wages between $12.50 and $19.99. In order to determine how many workers made under $15 an hour, the NDP methodology assigns all the individuals that make less than $10 (Category 1), all who made between $10 and $12.49 (Category 2), and a portion of the individuals who make between $12.50 and $19.99 (Category 3) to an "under $15″ bucket. This is a rather elegant solution that I will adopt by assigning one-third of all individuals in the $12.50 to $19.99 category to an under-$15 category.

The NDP only assigns 24 per cent of the Category 3 workers to the under-$15 group, whereas I will assign a full 33.3 per cent. As such, my initial estimate of the number of workers who would benefit from the plan is more than 23 per cent larger than what the NDP estimates.
Employment growth
Next, we need to account for employment growth in federally regulated industries between 2008 and 2019, which should increase our overall number of people who benefit from the minimum wage policy. We do not have complete data on the growth of employment in federally regulated industries from 2008 to 2015 and, naturally, we do not know what will happen between 2015 and 2019. We can, however, make some reasonable estimates based on general employment trends. The Labour Force Survey's Table 282-0888 reports that overall employment has grown at an annualized rate of 0.75 per cent from 2008 to 2015. Industries associated with federal regulations appear to be growing at a slower rate than average, with "finance, insurance, banking and real estate" growing at 0.57 per cent, and public administration actually shrinking by 0.17 per cent per year.

There is another way to estimate the growth in employment in federally regulated industries. The study of federally regulated workers indicates that the sector shrunk by 20,000 between 2004 and 2008, though it cautions that the "2004 survey is deeply flawed," and advises against making comparisons between the two studies. Another source we could use is the federal government's annual reports on the Employment Equity Act, which contain data on federally regulated workplaces of 100-plus employees. In 2008, 90 per cent of federally regulated employees worked for firms of this size, so these data are useful for our purposes, though they're not entirely complete. Starting from the most recent 2014 report (which contains data from 2013) and working backward through all the available studies, we find that the number of these workers has shrunk somewhat, though there is a great deal of year-to-year volatility:

We do not know the increase in the growth of federally regulated workers who make less than $15, but, given what we know from the Labour Force Survey, federally regulated workplace study and employment equity survey data, estimates of 0.25 to 0.75 per cent annual growth appear reasonable. If we take a low estimate of 0.25 per cent growth per year over 11 years, a mid-range estimate of 0.5 per cent and a high estimate of 0.75 per cent, this increases our estimated number of workers from 123,033 to a range of 126,459 to 133,573:
Nominal wage growth
Next, we need to account for the fact that nominal wages typically increase over time. The wage data in the federally regulated workplace study are from 2008, but the $15 minimum wage does not become fully active until 2019. Since nominal wages will have grown during this period, we need to account for the fact that a job paying $14.50 in 2008 would probably be above $15 by 2019, so would not be directly covered by the proposal. What we need to do is work backward and estimate an equivalent wage in 2008 to $15 per hour in 2019, in order to determine the number of workers directly affected by the proposal.

The Labour Force Survey's Table 282-0071 contains nominal hourly wage data by industry. Comparing July 2008 to July 2015, we find that overall hourly wages have increased at the following rates:

We should also consider sectoral data, since wages can increase at different rates in different fields. For example, average part-time hourly wages for the "finance, insurance, real estate and leasing" sector grew at 2.54 per cent, but median part-time wages for that group only grew at a tepid 1.54 per cent per year.

Given our data on hourly wage growth, I assume a low scenario in which wages grow at 1.51 per cent per year between 2008 and 2019, a medium scenario in which wages grow at 2.24 per cent per year, and a high scenario in which wages grow at 2.76 per cent. Using these growth rates gives us 2008 equivalent wages of $12.72 for the low scenario, $11.76 for the medium scenario and $11.18 for the high scenario. I then apply the same proportionality formula used earlier to determine how many workers in 2008 made less than these amounts:

Using the most favourable set of assumptions of employment growth at 0.75 per cent per year, and wage growth of only 1.51 per cent per year over 11 years, I find that the federal minimum wage proposal would only directly boost the wages of 52,361 individuals. Using the least favourable set of assumptions of employment growth of 0.25 per cent per year and wage growth of 2.76 per cent over 11 years, I get a figure of 24,347. The midpoint estimate, which uses rather charitable assumptions of 0.50 per cent annual employment growth and 2.24 per cent annual nominal wage growth, and a far more generous splitting methodology than that used by the NDP, I get an estimate of 33,065 workers covered by the $15 minimum wage proposal, less than one-third of the 100,000-worker claim.

Different methodologies could produce different results. Another possible method would be to use the wage categories from the employment equity studies. The 2011 report states that 139,025 federally regulated workers, both part- and full-time, covered under the sample made salaries of less than $30,000 in 2010. This 139,025 figure should not be used directly as an estimate of people making less than $15 hour, as it does not cover all federally regulated workers, and many of the part-time workers in this category made more than $15 an hour.

However, it is useful to see how this figure evolved over time. The 2014 report shows that the number of workers making less than $30,000 per year declined to 104,978 in 2013-a decline of 8.94 per cent per year over three years, thanks largely to workers "graduating" into higher-wage categories. If we take our 123,033 under-$15 estimate from 2008 and reduce that figure by a compounded 8.94 per cent per year over 11 years, that leaves us with 43,916 workers making less than $15 an hour in 2019. This estimate is well within the range of our more extensive earlier methodology. Given that two different methodologies yield similar results is comforting, though I would be delighted to see estimates from other analysts using different methodologies and/or data.

Of course, none of this takes into account the fact that a $15 minimum wage for federally regulated workers could result in higher-income workers receiving raises through a cascading effect, nor does it account for the effect it might have on provincial minimum wage laws. Conversely, it also does not account for any employment losses that the policy could cause through automation or offshoring of jobs. The specific NDP claim that 100,000 workers will directly see a raise is not supportable by the evidence, with the true number likely being somewhere between one-quarter and one-half that number.

Mike Moffatt is an assistant professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Ivey Business School. He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

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No, the NDP's minimum wage plan won't help 100,000 people

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The New Democratic Party has proposed reinstating the minimum wage for workers in federally regulated industries and increasing it to $15 by "the end of our first term in office" (presumably, 2019). But how many workers will directly see their wages go up from this measure?