Bootle MP Peter Dowd claimed the newcomers
were copying his own
party's policies anyway: «Reports suggest that the new
party's «potential policy
proposals include asking the rich
to pay a
fairer share of tax, better funding for the NHS and improved social mobility.»
Since the recent federal election there has
been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal
party's election promise
to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new,
fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major
proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).