TORONTO - The NDP is ripping a page out of Stephen Harper's 2006 campaign playbook and promising five key priorities to be accomplished in the first 100 days of taking office.
The Conservatives used a similar focused, easily understandable strategy to defeat Paul Martin's Liberals.
The platform, released today, is a mix of previous New Democrat commitments from earlier campaigns and initiatives the party has already put before the House of Commons in proposed legislation.
It pledges to balance the federal books by 2014-15 and, while there is significant spending right away, senior campaign officials say it would not add to the deficit.
The centrepiece of the NDP's fiscal plan is to restore the corporate tax rate to 19 per cent and to crack down on foreign tax havens.
The NDP are also pledging to cut small business taxes by $1 billion.
