VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - While on a campaign stop in Vancouver, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff brought out a laundry list of things he wants to accomplish if he becomes Canada's next prime minister.
The first thing: bring back the long-form census. "I don't know how to put this politely. One of the dumbest things I've seen a modern Canadian government do is scrap that long-form census. There isn't a Canadian who understands why they did that. It was pure ideology," Ignatieff told the crowd at Langara College in Vancouver.
Other promises he is making: a better national childcare plan, a national poverty strategy, an affordable housing strategy, and ways to bridge the immigration success gap.
Ignatieff spent Tuesday evening at a rally in Richmond, where hundreds of people turned out, bearing signs supporting MPs Joyce Murray and Ujjal Dosanjh.
The leader is hoping to double the number of Liberal MPs in BC to ten.