NDP to release old age, the retirement policies

The NDP should release its security platform of old age and retirement at an event in Toronto Monday morning.

Jack Layton, leader should make the announcement at 9 p.m. et, followed by a gathering, in London, on Monday night.

Leading to the March of the Harper Government budget, the NDP requested an increase of $ 700 million in guaranteed for the seniors income supplement.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff speaks at the launch of the platform in Ottawa on Sunday. Nathan Denette/Canadian pressthe NDP have also called for gradual doubling of the Canada and pension plan pension plan Quebec.

The party also has supporters of the closure of loopholes in the bankruptcy laws to allow pensioners pass in front of the row if a company for bankruptcy files.

Layton describes health priorities of NDP Sunday, including a pledge to train and recruit more doctors and nurses for the next decade. He also promised to work to repatriate 300 Canadian doctors living abroad and improve benefits for disabled veterans and to the retirees.

In an interview on everyone speaks, a broadcast to more than 1.5 million Quebecers, Layton concerns that his hip problems may be related to his cancer, saying: he believed to be just a fracture.

Layton said he believes that this will be his last campaign, saying: he hopes to be on the campaign trail in the future if his condition permits.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper is expected to start the week with an event of campaign in Wainfleet, Ontario, the Monday morning, followed by a rally in Guelph, at 5: 30 a.m. local time.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper took part in a gathering of campaign in London, Ontario, on Sunday. Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian pressthe Conservative leader should use its judgment in a farm in Wainfleet to reassert plans to adopt a law which register Federal firearms of scrap metal.

Harper has always said that he believes that the firearms registry is wasteful and inefficient. Conservatives argue that the firearms registry does nothing to reduce crime.

The location of the press conference is important because Harper will be in the constituency which is held from Malcolm Allen theNDP when the election is called.

Allen opposed the gun registry fire originally but changed its position and voted to support the controversial program.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff will spend the day in the Atlantic Canada, greeting commuters to a ferry in Halifax terminal in the morning, followed by an announcement at the Westin Nova Scotian hotel and a rally in Saint John, N.L., Monday night.

Harper and Ignatieff exchanged barbs over the weekend.

The Tories released a new ad attack accusing the Liberal Party to support a fee for iPod for $75.

"It is false." It is not in the platform, "Ignatieff responded to a rally in Halifax." "No tax iPod." I just say something here. I want to make an agreement with Mr. Harper: If you stop telling lies about us, we will stop to tell the truth to your subject. ?

Green party leader Elizabeth May was scheduled to spend the day in Colombia of British Columbia, beginning with a press outside CBC Victoria Conference. May is then should respond to constituents and campaign in Sidney, British Columbia Colombia, followed by an opening and solicitation campaign office, in Saanich, a suburb of Victoria.

Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe has a loaded, planned schedule for Monday, including a photo session with local candidates at boating Park St.-Jean-Port-Joli.

Duceppe is then scheduled to attend a photo session with Union representatives for Bombardier 7 to visit a local business on the Rue Louis-Philippe Lebrun and pose for photos, with the Mayor of rivière-du-Loup, Monday night.

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