Pierre Poilievre
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to remove thousands of federal regulations by 2027 and implement a rule that would require the government to cut administrative costs by $2 for every dollar they implement.
Poilievre will announce his commitment to a “one-to-one” law that will also force the government to cut two regulations for each of them in Osoyoos, British Columbia on Saturday.
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In the press release, the Conservative Party lamented that there are nearly 150,000 federal regulations and accused the Liberal Party of suffocating businesses with the traditional Chinese tape festival. Poilievre promises his government will reduce these administrative requirements by 25% within two years.
“The traditional tape festival kills ambitions, raises costs, and makes it easier for Trump to excite us,” Poilievre said in a statement.
Liberal leader Mark Carney has pledged nationwide to restore federal apprenticeship grants and raise the amount to $8,000, while doubling funding for union training and innovation programs to $50 million.
Speaking at a crane factory in Oakville, Ontario, Carney is also working to create a $20 million capital source for the university to build a new apprenticeship training space.
Liberal leaders say Canada faces a shortage of 60,000 construction workers and nearly 250,000 people are expected to retire over the next seven years.
“We will invest in the entire talent channel from the workers themselves, unions to unions, to secondary institutions, to employers and provinces to ensure that the newly trained workers we need most can go wherever we need them most,” Carney said.
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Carney’s latest commitment seems to tear another page from the Conservatives’ campaign book.
Two weeks ago, Poilievre announced that the Conservative government would uphold a $4,000 apprenticeship grant, which expires under the Liberal Party on March 31. He also promised to provide funding for the union training hall to help pay for equipment and programs.
As a shock from a new scan of U.S. automatic tariffs this week made a shock that Carney told reporters Saturday that Ford CEO Jim Farley has promised maintenance operations and investments at the Oakville plant.
“We specifically talked about the Oakville plant, the competitiveness of the plant, the investments Ford made in the plant, their commitments – his personal commitment to me … The Oakville plant will continue,” he said. “They are committed to Canada.”
He also promised that Canada would “win” the trade war against the United States, but again warned that the road to victory would be difficult.
“We will protect our workers, we will fight back, we will build us will become stronger,” Carney said, adding: “They will become weaker. We will eventually reach an agreement.”
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New Democratic leader Jagmeet Singh in NFLD. St. John’s spoke, promising that every Canadian would have a family doctor by 2030 under the leadership of the NDP government.
He promised to fund 1,000 medical residency positions in Canada and to reduce the administrative burden on doctors by eliminating doctor bills to gather patients.
“I believe everyone in our country should be able to have a family doctor,” Singh said. “There are thousands of trained doctors who have been trained internationally…and the only reason why they can’t really take care of patients is because they can’t find a place in their residence.”
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