campaign update

The NDP are going to be making direct appeals to Liberal voters, with a blitz in BC starting this weekend.

 

"But the Liberal party under Paul Martin isn't what it was. Paul Martin's Liberal party needs a time out -- to heal itself, clean itself up, decide what it believes. I'm asking you to change your vote."

 

I'm not making this headline up:  Fun money flows more freely in Liberal ridings

 

A little more than 79 per cent of the $7.5 million provided since the last election through Canadian Heritage's Celebrate Canada program funded projects based in Liberal ridings, the newspaper says.  As well, projects based in Quebec received more than half of the total amount spent by the national program.

Here's a shocker:  Off-reserve natives to back Tories
 

The Conservative party will today receive an official endorsement from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, a group that represents off-reserve natives, sources have told CanWest News Service.