VIDEO: Tories still “don’t know why” First Nations chiefs want a missing and murdered women inquiry

Published January 13, 2015

The Conservatives just don’t get it. Responding to a new report that recommends a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, MP Susan Truppe, parliamentary secretary for Status of Women, told CBC News’ Evan Solomon “I don’t know why” First Nations chiefs would want an inquiry. Truppe added that she’s only ever heard “one family member” […]

Canada’s growing part-time job problem exposed in 3 graphs

Published October 6, 2014

Stephen Harper likes to portray himself as Canada’s job-creator-in-chief. But if you peel back the rhetoric and take a closer look at the labour market, Canada has been undergoing a quiet transformation in favour of part-time jobs. “This type of unsteady or precarious work is a quieter or less visible trend in Canada’s labour market, […]

Stephen Harper’s thinking on corporate taxes is magical

Published September 26, 2014

Does Stephen Harper believe in magic? Harper recently told reporters that lowering corporate taxes has not caused revenues to fall: “Dropping our tax rate has not caused the government’s corporate income tax revenues to fall, which indicates that it does in fact attract business.” Just so we’re all on the same page, Harper is saying lowering corporate […]

Harper government’s new jobs plan gives “firms an incentive to fire workers”

Published September 15, 2014

The Harper government’s new signature proposal timed for the return of Parliament on Monday “makes it weirdly profitable to fire people,” according to an independent analysis by an economist. Mike Moffatt of the Ivey School of Business at Western University analysed the proposed Small Business Job Credit aimed at companies that pay Employment Insurance premiums […]

Tony Clement’s anti-union talking points don’t stand up to reality

Published March 28, 2014

The Conservative government, facing a constitutional challenge over its budget implementation bill for gutting collective bargaining rights of federal public sector workers, has some creative talking points to defend the draconian provisions. The 9-page internal Questions and Answers document about the “modernization” of collective bargaining, prepared for Treasury Board president Tony Clement, was released to PressProgress […]

Joe Oliver gets it wrong on Keystone XL 6 times in 4 minutes

Published January 20, 2014

In an interview lasting less than four minutes, Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver managed to utter six falsehoods or exaggerations about TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline and Canada’s record on fighting climate change. Here’s how Oliver’s talking points, delivered Sunday during an interview on Global News’ The West Block with Tom Clark, fall flat […]