FEDERAL NDP Platform

[Oddmott]

I noticed one REALLY good point on the NDP platform (and only the one) which made reference to improving employment through more open access to trades apprenticeships.

This was something that was supposed to have been done by the ON liberals 3-4 years ago... increasing the journeyman:apprentice ratio from the current (in Ontario) 3:1 to a more realistic 2:1 or even 1:1.

As it is, the current ratio is leading to ridiculous increases in tradeswork by making sealed tradespeople in artificially high demand, when there are MANY out there who are seeking positions in various trades industries.

I find it weird though, that the NDP are doing this when they're typically very friendly to unions (of which many trades people are members & we all know how unions love to inflate the value and salaries of their members) AND because i was under the impression that this is only an issue in ON, that the rest of the provinces don't have the same idiotic system in place?

[yellow dog]

I deal with the trades people on a daily bases and they all cannot find people to fill positions. If they do find people they rarely last more than a year.

[terrym]

Is this not Provincial jurisdiction anyway?

[trimmer21]

So far,throughout this campaign,the Liberals and the NDP spout off what they want to see done,but,they're very careful not to say how they intend to accomplish their plans because they must know how much it will put off the electorate. This is an ongoing snow job. I just hope the electorate are smart enough not to be fooled by the empty rhetoric.

[terrym]

I wonder if Canadians will blame Mulcair when the "Global" market for crude oil keeps dropping and revenues tank further?

[trimmer21]

I wonder if Canadians will blame Mulcair when the "Global" market for crude oil keeps dropping and revenues tank further?

Nope. It'll be the same as the "blame Mike Harris" labor dopes here in Ontario that simply haven't the intelligence to figure it out,90% of whom have great difficulty walking and chewing gum at the same time.

[woody1948]

NDP huh, well I believe nothing they say.

[scribe]

Allowing provinces and municipalities to ban handguns is on the NDP agenda. What's next? A ban on lead fishing tackle might hurt anglers and is not out of the question.

[trimmer21]

In the ridiculous "debate" last night,it was blatantly clear that NDP "pacifist" policy was on full display. Trudeau tried to backpeddle his support for Bill C-51 after Mulcair called him out,but,you can't unring the bell. By then,The Kid was flailing in the deep end of the pool. Even the decidedly left wing partisan Liberal crowd in attendance laughed and giggled when he tried to conjure up images of "heroism" of his late father's multicultural policies. To their credit,Harper and Mulcair simply ignored him.

[poltrojan]

Let's see.... Mulcair says we should base more of our foreign policy on what the UN says.....

http://globalnews.ca/news/2246509/mu...policy-debate/


the same UN....
Saudi Arabia plans to crucify protester as it ascends to UN Human Rights Council chair


http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Sau...l-chair-418999

and in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia displays beheaded Yemenis in public

http://www.albawaba.com/news/saudi-a...heading-493443

which is pretty disturbing that UN allowed Saudis to have a chair in the UN Human Rights Council
Canada should pull out of UN long time ago; at this rate it should where dictator nation are allowed a chair in Human Rights Council