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The federal Liberals would plunk a lot of money into local affordable-housing projects, a gaggle of Ottawa candidates reannounced Thursday morning.
For such an apparently content-lite affair, they did it pretty abruptly, sending out word of an 8:30 a.m. news conference at 11 p.m. the night before. I didn’t make it to the thing itself. But this is the gist they chose to emphasize:
.@cathmckenna re. urgent need to address affordable housing & homelessness in #ottcity. @ATEH_OTT #OttawaCentre #LPC pic.twitter.com/8B8JR2Bbuw
— Team Catherine (@VoteCatherine) September 10, 2015
In substance, it refers to Justin Trudeau’s first really big platform announcement of the campaign a couple of weeks ago, pledging an additional $60 billion in federal money over 10 years for transit, social housing and environmental infrastructure. “Ottawa would get some of that!” is the essential message.
Right after the initial announcement, Orléans Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie went to some effort to point out that more federal money for transit could possibly mean funding for the optional-extras parts of the city’s next phase of light-rail construction, namely extending the line as far east as Trim Road in his riding, and building a spur to the airport. Not for sure, of course, because it actually wouldn’t be up to the feds what the city did, but maybe.
Elsewhere in the land, Trudeau’s organized follow-up events to emphasize each chunk of his planned spending. One in Trois-Rivieres to talk about green infrastructure, one near Toronto talk about transit, one in downtown Toronto to talk about housing. Other candidates can do as the Ottawa ones did Thursday, scheduling events of their own to tout this or that.
By all means they should emphasize the local importance of their party’s platform and be able to talk about it in detail. Let’s just not allow them to confuse us into thinking they’re saying anything new. It’s the same thing Trudeau said in August, repeated again and again in different voices.
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For such an apparently content-lite affair, they did it pretty abruptly, sending out word of an 8:30 a.m. news conference at 11 p.m. the night before. I didn’t make it to the thing itself. But this is the gist they chose to emphasize:
.@cathmckenna re. urgent need to address affordable housing & homelessness in #ottcity. @ATEH_OTT #OttawaCentre #LPC pic.twitter.com/8B8JR2Bbuw
— Team Catherine (@VoteCatherine) September 10, 2015
In substance, it refers to Justin Trudeau’s first really big platform announcement of the campaign a couple of weeks ago, pledging an additional $60 billion in federal money over 10 years for transit, social housing and environmental infrastructure. “Ottawa would get some of that!” is the essential message.
Right after the initial announcement, Orléans Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie went to some effort to point out that more federal money for transit could possibly mean funding for the optional-extras parts of the city’s next phase of light-rail construction, namely extending the line as far east as Trim Road in his riding, and building a spur to the airport. Not for sure, of course, because it actually wouldn’t be up to the feds what the city did, but maybe.
Elsewhere in the land, Trudeau’s organized follow-up events to emphasize each chunk of his planned spending. One in Trois-Rivieres to talk about green infrastructure, one near Toronto talk about transit, one in downtown Toronto to talk about housing. Other candidates can do as the Ottawa ones did Thursday, scheduling events of their own to tout this or that.
By all means they should emphasize the local importance of their party’s platform and be able to talk about it in detail. Let’s just not allow them to confuse us into thinking they’re saying anything new. It’s the same thing Trudeau said in August, repeated again and again in different voices.
Related
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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