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Liberals and NDP fight over budget
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Limbaugh On Ferguson: #39;Truth Is Relative #39; To Liberals
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh made a rare tv appearance on Sunday #39;s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to discuss a variety of topics including the state of race relations...
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Environmentalists from the Sierra Club, union members with the Communications Workers of America and even a few members of Code Pink gather to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Washington, D.C., on Monday. James Clark/NPR hide caption
Environmentalists from the Sierra Club, union members with the Communications Workers of America and even a few members of Code Pink gather to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
When it comes to environmental regulations, taxes and the minimum wage, business groups generally object to President Obama's positions, while liberals support him.
But one issue blurs the usual political lines: trade.
Just last week, Obama told the Business Roundtable he would push to complete massive trade deals with both Asian and European nations. "If we can get that done, that's good for American businesses," he said.
On Monday, as negotiators from Pacific Rim nations assembled in Washington to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), they were met by protests from liberal groups including environmentalists, union members and consumer advocates.
Outside of the U.S. Trade Representative's office near the White House, the protesters carried signs saying, "TPP = Polluters' Bill of Rights" and "Save Our Jobs."
Shane Larson was among them. He says he objects to the way trade negotiations are conducted, which is in private. "The people are completely shut out of having input in what the trade agreement should look like," said Larson, the legislative director for Communications Workers of America, a union that strongly endorsed Obama's election.
Earlier in the day, several liberal lawmakers spoke with reporters, raising objections to the trade pact that would tie together the U.S. economy with 11 others around the Pacific Rim, including Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia.
"The administration refuses to change its approach to secret negotiations and is pushing to send a final package to Congress with almost no ability for us to scrutinize it," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut.
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Liberals are again invoking the legacy of the late Jim Flaherty to criticize the Harper government, this time over its treatment of veterans.
For weeks now, Grits and New Democrats have been calling for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino to resign or be fired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in light of a number of controversies in his department.
First, it was revealed Veterans Affairs did not spend more than $1.1 billion of its budget over the past seven years. The auditor general then reported vets with PTSD are kept waiting too long for help and, days later, The Globe and Mail revealed a much-trumpeted $200-million fund to help veterans deal with mental health issues will be spread out over 50 years, not five or six.
But on Monday, much of the focus in question period was on the discovery that some of the biggest job cuts at Veterans Affairs in recent years have been in the disability awards branch and that, as reported by The Chronicle Herald, department managers reaped lucrative bonuses for slashing costs.
Fantino repeatedly told both New Democrats and Liberals that he would make no apologies for "reducing the bureaucracy" at Veterans Affairs. And the minister made it clear he isn't planning on calling it quits.
Eventually, the Liberal veterans affairs critic Frank Valeriote tried a different tack: questioning Fantino's courage.
"There was once a minister willing to stand up to the prime minister but unfortunately Jim Flaherty is gone now," Valeriote said. "When will the minister of veterans affairs stop the prime minister from making these callous cuts and misleading veterans and Canadians?"
Fantino shot back that it was pretty hard to "dignify" that question.
"However, let me assure the honourable member that the decisions that were taken are always in consideration of doing the right thing for the right reasons on behalf of our veterans," Fantino said.
The minister added that his department is focused on "creating efficiencies" so that savings can be translated to front-line services for veterans and their families.
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