The reality in the meantime is a big infrastructure cut. The Building Canada Fund will plunge from its existing level of about $1.7-billion per year, down to a meagre $210-million in 2014-15. It will stay at that reduced amount for 2015-16. That's a cut over the next two years of close to $3-billion. And it’s not projected to get back to its current annual value until after 2019.

Today marks eight years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. The Conservatives have spent millions in taxpayer dollars trying to convince Canadians that they are sound economic managers. Eight years later, nothing could be further from the truth. With low levels of economic growth, record household debt, and a youth unemployment rate that remains twice[…]

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Good morning. Canadians want their leaders to be open and straight with them, to tell them the truth. They expect us to come forward with practical solutions that address problems directly. The Senate has become one of those problems. That, I have heard clearly from Canadians. The Senate is broken, and needs to be fixed.[…]

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Tonight, like many of you, I’ll be ringing in the New Year with my loved ones. And whether you’re a lifelong Liberal or new to our movement, we have plenty to celebrate. Less than 8 months ago, when you offered me the privilege of leading our party, I said that we had won nothing less[…]

This week I was travelling throughout British Columbia, and I had a great opportunity to visit Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen in downtown Vancouver. About five years ago, members of the local Sikh community came together to launch a grassroots initiative, founded in the spirit of langar with a couple of simple goals: feeding those in[…]