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Conservative Party of Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2015, from http://www.conservative.ca/
Green Party. Retrieved September 20, 2015, from http://www.greenparty.ca/en/our-vision
Liberal Party of Canada. Retrieved September 19, 2015, from https://www.liberal.ca/
Fekete, J., MacLeod, I., & Berthiaume, L. (2015, August 2). Everything you need to know about the parties’ platforms, from taxes and terrorism to the environment. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
New Democratic Party. Retrieved September 20, 2015, from http://www.ndp.ca/issues
How come this infographic places “$3.5 billion over 5 years for maternal, newborn, child health initiatives” under the SECURITY and FOREIGN AFFAIRS/DEFENCE section instead of creating a new section, such as health care? Also, either the NDP platform is very general or not much research was performed: “increase opportunities for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit”. HOW will the New Democrats do this? Don’t the Conservative and Liberal platforms also fall into this broad generalization? Another interesting thing to note is that the facts and numbers are all in for the Tories, but they severely lack for other parties. There is also no mention, as the previous commenter noted, of the Liberal Party’s plan to run deficits. The $14 billion in spending in their first year alone is not noted in the NDP column. Mulcair opposes the East Energy Pipeline when he speaks in French, but outside of Quebec, he supports it: maybe his position should be written as flip-flop or right “yes” and “non”. Maybe a spending section should also be added or placed in the economy section. Also, the Liberals want to create a non-partisan senate instead of abolishing it or making it elected. This deserves to be mentioned too.
At the time of research, we used all resources available including the Macleans debate and the Globe and Mail debate, as well as a few newspaper articles, and whatever parties put on their websites. The reason for Conservatives having more numbers is that they put up more numbers. If other parties put them up, we would cite them as well.
The Liberal’s plan to run deficits was announced after the research for this infographic concluded. As was the NDP’s $14 billion in spending in their first year.
Your first graphic – why so cluttered? Why not put the Conservatives on the right, if they’re ‘right’ wing? Also, based on Justin’s latest set of bribes, er. proposals, he’s going to run bigger deficits than even the NDP, meaning he’s farther left than they are!
The parties are ordered alphabetically.
Running deficits does not necessarily mean a party is more left wing (see Harper’s recent deficits).