In what’s shaping up to be a systematic assault on the NDP’s new shadow cabinet, the Conservative Party has now zeroed in on Mulcair’s critic for Canada-U.S. border issues and the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway.
“Mr. Masse recently endorsed a proposal calling for a taxpayer-funded, government-owned car manufacturing company that would compete with private sector, taxpaying companies that employ thousands upon thousand of Canadians – putting their jobs at risk and setting up taxpayers for a massive failure,” says the latest statement issued by party spokesman Fred DeLorey.
“In responding to a call from the Canadian Autoworkers Union to end job-creating free trade talks and create a risky car-making Crown corporation, Mr. Masse’s response (to the Windsor Star) was ‘we’re supporting the entire initiative.’”
The Tories call Masse’s position a “hint as to the kind of dangerous economic experiments that would entice an NDP government.
“These are policies that would hurt everyday Canadian families and waste large amounts of taxpayers’ dollars,” they say.
The Tories seem to have focused on so-called NDP “activists who have lobbied against Canada’s ability to develop and sell its own resources.”
Earlier this week, the Conservatives targeted Nathan Cullen, the NDP’s new House Leader. The B.C. MP has been a strong opponent of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and has called for a balanced approach to natural resources development that takes into account environmental concerns.
He’s raised concerns about foreign take-overs that don’t benefit Canadians and wants to put an end to the export of raw logs and bitumen and instead produce products domestically.
The Tories have vowed to “continue to help Canadians get to know Mr. Mulcair’s NDP” through more targeted attacks over the “coming days.”
Anticipating an attack on their newly elected leader, the NDP released ads almost immediately aimed at defining Mulcair before the competition could.
On Thursday, Karl Belanger, Mulcair’s principal secretary, called these latest attacks “sad and pathetic” and noted they “wont’ distract” the NDP from tackling the “real issues” of concern to Canadians.
“We have no problems comparing our Shadow Cabinet to Harper’s Cadillac Cabinet,” he said in an email.
“In fact, we think the NDP will win that comparison easily in the minds of Canadians.”
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Source: canada.com
Author: Tobi Cohen
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