Conservatives, Liberals called out over lack of ‘prudence’ in platforms

John Robson: Party Platforms Lack Value Without Plans to Fulfill Promises

Commentary This column was of necessity written before the election on Monday, so I don’t know who the winner or winners will be. But I am confident that to predict their actual policies going forward you should immediately download their platform directly into your recycle bin. Which does rather raise the question of why politicians create them and why we let them. To test their predictive value, I invite you to go back and look at platforms fr…

Pellerin: What do the federal leaders think about Ottawa priorities?

Conventional wisdom says it never pays for a political party to release its platform early. Let’s just say that in this election, the parties avoided tragedy. The Liberals released theirs on April 19, nine days before the vote; the Conservatives waited until April 22, six days before the vote — and after more than seven million Canadians had already cast their ballot — to release the blue plan. What does this frenzy of last-minute reading mean f…

Conservatives, Liberals criticized over lack of 'prudence' in platforms

Pierre Poilievre is defending the Conservative campaign platform's heavy reliance on economic growth in a period of deep uncertainty, while the NDP and Liberals spar over cost-cutting.

John Ivison: The Conservatives’ platform undermines their attacks on Liberal profligacy

Any hopes they had of profiting from the prodigal nature of the Liberal platform disappeared when they released their own costing document.

Conservatives, Liberals called out over lack of ‘prudence’ in platforms

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is defending the Conservative campaign platform's heavy reliance on economic growth in a period of deep uncertainty, while the NDP and Liberals spar over cost-cutting.

Conservatives, Liberals called out over lack of 'prudence' in platforms

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre is defending the Conservative campaign platform's heavy reliance on economic growth in a period of deep uncertainty, while the NDP and Liberals spar over cost-cutting.