Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: Former Liberal MP voting Conservative, Tories vow better bereavement benefits” – below is their description.
With one week left of campaigning, leaders of Canada’s three main federal parties fanned out across the country making one final push to shore up support ahead of election day.
But in an interview with The West Block, former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says she will be voting for the Conservatives for the first time in her life. Caesar-Chavannes left Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s caucus in 2019, a month after Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned her cabinet position amid the SNC-Lavalin affair.
She says that she was “heartbroken because we keep continuing to reward bad behavior from a prime minister,” as Trudeau continues to claim he is still a feminist. Abigail Bimman looks at what else drove the former Liberal’s decision, and Trudeau’s reaction.
Meanwhile, on the Conservative campaign trail in Vancouver, Leader Erin O’Toole announced new commitments to improve bereavement benefits for parents who lose a child. If elected, the party says it plans to extend parental leave benefits by eight weeks in the event of a death of a child, create a new bereavement leave of up to eight weeks, and provide three days paid leave for those who experience a miscarriage. As David Akin reports, it’s also part of a broader effort to appeal to female voters.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013.
A miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy during the first 23 weeks. The main signs of a miscarriage include vaginal bleeding, followed by cramping and pain.
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Vancouver, a bustling west coast seaport in British Columbia, is among Canada’s densest cities. A popular filming location, it’s surrounded by mountains, and also has thriving art, theatre and music scenes.
Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.
