“What was essentially a dead heat last time (a 0.5-point race) is now a nine-point NDP lead — good news for them, however you look at it.” Writes David Valentin of Liaison Strategies
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says his party needs to analyze the budget thoroughly to see if it helps affordability and unemployment, citing no digital services tax as a key NDP concern.
“It’s alarming and it’s unacceptable,” Davies said in an interview. “These entities are anticipated to be used to fund massive amounts of money — which is not what they historically have been used for — but we expect them to have a lot of money flowing through them and the framework agreements that govern how they work have traditionally been made public.”