DOBBIN: Can the NDP challenge Harper on the economy?

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DOBBIN: Can the NDP challenge Harper on the economy?

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September 8, 2014

The NDP's announcement that it will push for a national minimum wage if elected is good news and suggests that the party may finally be overcoming its decades-long aversion to engaging its Liberal and Conservative adversaries on the question of the economy. [ http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair- ... -1.1991692 ]. It's too early to tell if they will follow up with other policy commitments and weather the expected attacks. The social bottom-feeders at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, ever eager to promote policies that harm their members' interests, have already attacked. Their knee-jerk response -- "wage inflation and higher unemployment" -- has been disproven so often that they should be embarrassed to drag it out.

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