'Science fiction' NDP platform, Ignatieff says

Michael Ignatieff is dismissing the NDP budgeting as "science fiction" that the Liberals have launched an attack all azimuth on Jack Layton.

The NDP now takes heat from all sides because the Liberals, the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are trying to push Canadians from party Layton with several polls suggesting a growing for her support.

The Liberals off radio anti-Layton and internet ads Saturday as Ignatieff went to Halifax to height Liberals to press for better access to medicines.

"It is time to consider carefully to what Jack Layton said the Canadian people." The numbers add up and up and up and up. And we're saying take a look at the program. We have an encrypted program, we make no promises, we cannot keep, "Ignatieff said."

"We can tell you exactly we not increase the taxes, and Mr. Layton received a platform which when you look carefully at it simply spending $ 30 billion which we think will be good for the economy and it comes from sources we believe just are credible... it is science fiction.".

The Liberals have also developed a statement claiming the NDP plan to raise funds through a system of limits and Exchange on carbon emissions will not work because it would take years to implement.

The most recent ad attacking liberal objectives in any attempt to Layton to portray himself as an outsider to the system, noting his 26 years in the dispute resolution policy. At the same time, it also labels candidates of his party as "inexperienced."

Advertising has also suggested that the party is not showing a position "principled" in support of registry and target NDP spending promises Federal gun.

The previous parliamentary session saw several members of the NDP rural constituencies and North to vote with the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois to block a conservative attempt to register the firearms of the scrap. Layton faced BLISTERING criticism by Liberals and the Bloc for its members a free vote on the issue.

Layton said in an interview broadcast Saturday on the home of the CBC Radio, he believes that the apparent increase in support is due to the Canadians taking a second look at "very concrete proposals" of his party, but also a growing sense of disillusionment with the status quo in the Parliament.

"We will just continue to work hard to build on this momentum, tell people that you have a real choice in this election," he told host Kathleen Petty.

"Ottawa must be changed, and we invite to join us to make this change happen."

Meanwhile Saturday, Conservative leader, Stephen Harper and Ignatieff were back on the campaign trail after a brief break for the start of the holiday weekend, Jack Layton sought to give a boost with campaign stops in the area of Toronto and Montreal.

Harper continued his push for a majority government at an event of campaign in Mississauga, Ontario.

"No matter what the combination of the opposition," Harper said Saturday. "We must put an end to the minority parliaments and elect a government strong conservative majority."

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, showed that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

New polls prompted a release by the Conservatives of an announcement of the new attack aimed squarely at Jack Layton. Ad slams Layton as "blindly ambitious" and willing to conspire with the block to form a Government.

In the election of 2008, according to her, "Layton began a coalition with the Bloc Québécois before planning our votes were even counted." He concluded: "it has done before." It will do so again. "And Canada will pay the price".

Friday, Paul Dewar NDP rejected as being based on "complete fabrications" and called the Tories to withdraw advertising.

Ignatieff will campaign in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island before the recapitulation of the day with a stop in Mississauga, where he will attend a service of Easter in the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius.

During this time, Green party leader Elizabeth may will campaign through the Colombia British Columbia, with stops in Saanichton and North Saanich.

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Liberals could still govern if Harper WINS minority: Ignatieff

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, said that he would be willing to form a Government under parliamentary rules if Stephen Harper wins the most seats in the election but not unable to win the confidence of the House of Commons.

"If"the Governor wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a Government, then we attempt to form a Government, Ignatieff said Peter Mansbridge for CBC in an interview exclusive Tuesday afternoon."

"This is exactly how the work rules and what I'm trying to say Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I will follow them to the letter and I'm not going to form a coalition.". This I am ready to do so is to speak to Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton or even Mr. Harper and say, "we have a problem and here's the plan I want to put before the Parliament, it is the budget I would bring in ' and then 'We take from there. ?

The statement is that the nearest Ignatieff has come to describe how he could become Prime Minister since his first day of the campaign to renounce a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.

Ignatieff, who had signed to form a coalition with the NDP supported the block when then-Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion had worked a deal three years ago, says Mansbridge that he later rejected the idea because it was not in the interest of Canadians.

"I could be sitting here and talking to you as Prime Minister and chose not to do that because I felt that it was not in the national interest," he said. "If I have dismissed the coalition in 2008 and I went into this election firmly in 2011 excluding the coalition."

"Mr. Harper had a coalition in 2004 with Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton discussions." Not me. ?

Shortly after the interview, the Tories back shot, issuing a statement which said Ignatieff "clearly." it is his agenda to become Prime Minister, even if he loses the election

"Michael Ignatieff ambition to be Prime Minister outweighs everything: our economic recovery, what is best for families, and even how Canadians vote,"said conservatives."."

Ignatieff has also denied he has started a negative campaign against Harper, saying that the question boils down to whether if you can trust the Conservative leader with the authority. The Liberals were forced to modify an anti-Harper announces attack on health care, after it was determined that a quotation has been attributed incorrectly to Harper.

"I think we must be very difficult, I believe that we have to frame the issues. I think that Canadians want to know what choices on 2 may, "Ignatieff said advertisements that his party is running."

"We believe that a strong campaign here is essential."

Pressed Mansbridge Ignatieff on some of the announcements of campaign, the Liberals are running, more specifically those who say Stephen Harper wants to "absolute power".

Ignatieff said Harper closes Parliament twice and held contempt of Parliament. He said that the important issue of the campaign is: "can you trust this guy with power."

"If you can not trust this man with democracy, you can be trusted with anything else," said Ignatieff.

Foundation of the Ignatieff with Mansbridge discussion is part of a series of one-on-one interviews with the leaders of the party. Harper accepted an interview at a time that has yet to be determined.

At the interview, Ignatieff rid of similarities that platform of his party may have with the NDP, saying that, unlike the Liberals table cost the NDP does not add.

But the NDP was quick to offer a rebuttal, saying their platform is not encrypted only, but also third validated.

"Unlike the platform Liberals, it is not making promises non-encrypted several billion dollars (e.g., payment of HST at Quebec, prescription drugs, high speed rail), or it does not ignore two years," the Democrats said in a statement.

"And unlike the Conservatives, it contains no reductions unidentified 11 billion from $.".

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