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No problem with Conservative bulk
OTTAWA Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there is nothing wrong with using taxpayers' dollars to finance a bulkmail campaign against Justin Trudeau.
However the newly minted Liberal leader is hitting back, accusing the Tories of utilizing the public purse to spread distortions and lies.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, meanwhile, says both Conservatives and Liberals are equally guilty of abusing public funds for purely partisan purposes, although New Democrats have been recognized to perform the same in the past.
Fierce debate about mass mailings by MPs erupted Thursday over news that Tory MPs are being urged to blanket their ridings with flyers bashing Trudeau as an inexperienced lightweight.
Harper told a news conference the campaign is within the rules of the home of Commons, and MPs all parties send partisan missives, referred to as 10 percenters, for their constituents.
"There are House of Commons rules for communications that people use constituents across the nation," Harper said.
"All parties work within those rules, and all sorts of parties use those activities and employ those rules."
However,canada goose, not every Conservative MPs are comfy with the flyers, templates of which happen to be ready for their use by the Conservative caucus research group.
"I will not be taking part in that program," said Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber, adding that his constituents "are not every that thrilled by negative attacks."
"I always, just myself, attempt to concentrate on policy instead of personality," said Kitchener MP Stephen Woodworth.
"I know there are other approaches and I can't tell others how to proceed. But for me, it's different, it's a different way."
Various scripts prepared for the flyers reason that Trudeau has neither the judgment nor the experience to govern the country, and use partial or outofcontext quotes to help make the case that he's "in way over his head."
This is the same theme the Conservatives are utilizing to hammer Trudeau in television ads running across the nation.
On the campaign stop for next month's byelection in Labrador, Trudeau said the Conservative government has become a onetrick attack machine.
"Instead of defending an ever more indefensible, mediocre record around the economy and on various decisions, they attack and they go to whichever public resources they can to show people away from politics and also to foster cynicism," he explained in Happy ValleyGoose Bay.
"Whether it's a surplus of monetary action plan ads around the taxpayers' dime or these 10percenters which do nothing other than distort, tell lies and attack,www.dragntalk.com/canada-goose-coats-london/, for me, that's something which Canadians are sick and tired of," Trudeau added.
However, Mulcair called Liberal complaints concerning the flyers "utmost hypocrisy."
He noted that Bob Rae, interim Liberal leader until Trudeau's coronation a week ago, recently sent two partisan missives to voters in NDPheld ridings. And that he accused Rae of using "subterfuge" to obtain around a ban imposed a few years ago on MPs sending 10 percenters outside their very own ridings.
Rae sent his missives in "franked" envelopes, using MPs' unlimited right to send and receive postagefree mail any place in Canada.
The Liberals "howled the loudest" about outofriding partisan flyers two years ago, Mulcair said and yet, "Bob Rae was using exactly the same thing: taxpayers' money for highly partisan political attacks recently."
Rae countered that his letters didn't enjoy "fullthroated attacks on an individual" such as the Conservative flyers on Trudeau. Rather,www.beckyalascio.com/archives/288, he criticized the NDP's stance that a bare most of Half plus one vote could be sufficient to trigger negotiations on Quebec secession.
"I don't think there's any comparison with regards to the content. Them was in in whatever way, shape or form an individual attack,canada goose pas cher enfant," he explained, adding that "nobody should be scared of political debate."
Mulcair said the NDP has complained to Speaker Andrew Scheer about Rae's letters, seeking clarification concerning the rules managing the use of "this type of sharp, highly partisan political attack" by MPs.
In fact, NDP whip Nycole Turmel has written Scheer asking for clarification from the rules governing communications sent outside an MP's riding. She has not requested any clarification on the content of such missives.
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