Tories ready to 'take on' Liberals over EI reform: PM

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Wednesday that he would be willing to go to the polls over Liberal calls for changes to the employment insurance system.

Harper made the veiled threat during a heated exchange with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, whose party has spent the past week calling for reforms to the program.

Ignatieff and Liberal MPs are urging the government to lower the minimum threshold to claim EI to 360 hours and make it a national standard.


360 hrs at 8 hrs / day = 45 days
50 weeks a year at 5 days a week = 250 days

You want to move from a 250 day work year to a 45 day work year, for everyone. The whole blinking nation ? Thats like everyone suddenly working only 1 day a week. Who pays for this ? Your next door neibours ? Sorry , they're only working 1 day a week too.

This is simple political tactics. The Liberals force Harper to say no to this , and maybe they win an election. And if they win , guess what ? This is not possible. You still don't get your 1 day work week, it's not in the cards it never was. It's a scam.

This is classic Liberal Tactics. Win the election at any cost. Make any promise, even the most ridiculous ones that anyone who bothers to use grade 3 math can see is impossible to keep , and just screw the public over. They care nothing for the people. It's all tactics and what lies can I tell today ?


The French-language commercials point out Ignatieff speaks French with a Parisian accent, rather than a Quebec accent.


With the constant deluge of Liberal attacks on our Hoover in a Blue Sweater, I suppose attack ads in return were inevitable.

The French one is tactically interesting though. The French Seperatists love the Parisans and treat them like visiting royalty, but does the rest of quebec ? One has to wonder if Harper is making a mistake with them, or did he some how sneak in a survey that indicates parisians are not so popular with Quebecer's and is taking a shot ? It will be interesting to see how that plays out.