Bill blair in ottawa, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. As Minister Of Defence in canada, how embarrassed are you that your country is still significantly failing to meet the collective commitment of nato Member States to spend at least 2 of your gdp on defence . Stephen, im not embarrassed at all because canada, under our government, has been investing very significantly in defence and theres been a very strong upper projectory of Defence Spending. Weve just introduced our latest Defence Policy, which injects a significant amount of new investment into Defence Spending. It builds up greater capabilities, it moves us much closer to the target of 2 , and with some of the other things that weve articulated in this Defence Policy, i think we are on a strong and inevitable path to achieving that 2 goal. Canada is well aware of its responsibilities to our nato allies, to our continental allies, through norad in the United States, and
Bill clinton one even though perot was more in line with bush on the issues. Joe democrats even though both were more aligned with democrats. So, can a Third Party Candidate actually win . Or just keep someone else from winning . Can a thirdparty be more than a faint echo of an existing party . Do voters really want more options . Can a Group Calling itself nonpartisan Stand A Chance and an exceedingly partisan landscape . Andrew yang knows what its like to run for president but he knows what its like to buck the trend and do things differently. He is testing whether america is indeed open to a third party. He joins us now. Welcome to you mr. Yang. I guess for me it starts with the issues. I mean pick the issue. Spending, inflation, social issues, the war in eastern europe. How would a thirdparty differ from the two existing parties. Word is at stake out its position on fill in the blank issue . You know trey, thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it. About half of americans
Bill clinton one even though perot was more in line with bush on the issues. Joe democrats even though both were more aligned with democrats. So, can a Third Party Candidate actually win . Or just keep someone else from winning . Can a thirdparty be more than a faint echo of an existing party . Do voters really want more options . Can a Group Calling itself nonpartisan Stand A Chance and an exceedingly partisan landscape . Andrew yang knows what its like to run for president but he knows what its like to buck the trend and do things differently. He is testing whether america is indeed open to a third party. He joins us now. Welcome to you mr. Yang. I guess for me it starts with the issues. I mean pick the issue. Spending, inflation, social issues, the war in eastern europe. How would a thirdparty differ from the two existing parties. Word is at stake out its position on fill in the blank issue . You know trey, thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it. About half of americans
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to increase the personal tax allowance for pensioners if they win the general election. they say the proposal would be worth £275 a year to each pensioner by the end of the decade. under the plans, the state pension would always remain below the tax free threshold. rishi sunak says the scheme shows the conservatives are on the side of pensioners but labour have called it desperate . rishi sunak will be out campaigning in the midlands today. let s get more on this with nick eardley. what do you love about it? how do you win over older voters? it s a question politicians ask themselves a lot. pensioners tend to get out and vote. so today, an offer from the conservatives, that the basic state pension will never be liable for income tax. the simple fact is that this tax change, this triple lock plus, will mean going forward that millions of pensioners, eight million pensioners, in fact, will be paying less tax than they would otherwise be paying. and that is clearly a tax cut