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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberal party is taking aim at the New Democrats as they enter the final week of the provincial election campaign.

Liberal Leader Brian Gallant says the NDP platform doesn't contain costs for 24 of its main commitments, but NDP Leader Dominic Cardy says some of the things the Liberals are criticizing aren't even in the party platform for next Monday's election.

Cardy says the attacks are a desperate effort to cover gaffes in the Liberal campaign.

Geoff Martin, a political scientist at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., says the Liberals may be going on the attack because the NDP could play the role of spoiler in some close races with the Progressive Conservatives.

Political scientist Tom Bateman of the University of New Brunswick says the Liberals may have peaked too early in the polls and party officials might be telling Gallant to launch an offensive in the final days.

Gallant says he has an obligation to tell voters what he thinks of Cardy's and Premier David Alward's campaign promises.

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WASHINGTON: Bernie Sanders, one of the Senate's leading liberals, said on Sunday he is thinking about running for U.S. president in 2016 as either a Democrat or an independent in a move that could complicate Hillary Clinton's path to the White House.

Sanders, an independent from Vermont, could pose a challenge from the left to Clinton, widely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has not officially said she is a candidate but has acted very much like one.

"I think anybody who speaks to the needs of the working class and the middle class of this country and shows the courage to take on the billionaire class, I think that candidate will do pretty well," Sanders told the NBC program "Meet the Press," giving a possible preview of his message in the 2016 campaign.

Sanders is serving his second six-year term in the Senate. He has cultivated a following among some American liberals, especially on economic issues like the growing income disparity between rich and poor and corporate greed. He is a self-described socialist who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate.

"I am thinking about running for president," Sanders said, adding that he must decide whether to run as an independent or wade into the fight for the Democratic nomination.

Sanders is testing the waters in Iowa, a state that holds an important early contest in the nomination process.

"One of the reasons I'm going to Iowa is to get a sense of how people feel about it," he said of his candidacy. "Look, the truth is (there is) profound anger at both political parties, more and more people are becoming independent. The negative is: how do you set up a 50-state infrastructure as an independent?"

Sanders said he has "a lot of respect" for Clinton, but said, "The issue is not Hillary."

With Clinton mindful of the need to appeal to moderates in any general election battle against a Republican in 2016, a Sanders candidacy could force her to the left in the Democratic primaries to head off his challenge.

Conversely, if he runs in the general election as an independent, he could siphon away from her votes from liberals that she could need to beat any Republican nominee.

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CTV Montreal Published Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:14PM EDT Last Updated Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:30PM EDT

Could a two-tier health system be on its way to Quebec?

Variations on that theme were among the many scenarios presented at a the Liberal Forum for Ideas, which focused on health care spending in the province, in its first of two days in Montreal Saturday.

And although the suggestions were often vague, all agreed that the system needs new ways to refinance, as if left unchecked health care costs will outstrip Quebecs tax revenues by 2038.

The man in charge said that he wants prompt action.

If we are to have a health care system that is sustainable, we need to change not in two, three or four years, we need to change today," Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette told CTV Montreal.

Barrette said that services can be maintained at a lower cost with better use of equipment, more prevention and cutting 1,300 health care managers.

We will make announcements that will go in the direction of restructuring. In doing that there will be a gain of efficiency and when we do that we need normally less people to do the same work, he said.

Premier Philippe Couillard echoed the notion that changes are needed pronto.

I would turn this around and make it an opportunity because of the urgency of our fiscal situation. We are not only obliged but we must absolutely speed up the process of innovation, said Couillard.

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