Canada election: Poilievre to release costed platform with 6 days left in campaign
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in Vaughan, Ont., to detail his election platform.
- He has promised a “dollar for dollar” policy, which would demand every dollar of new government spending be matched with a cut to spending elsewhere.
- The Conservatives are the last major party to release a platform.
- Liberal Leader Mark Carney is campaigning in Quebec today.
- NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is still in B.C., where he’s making stops throughout the vote-rich Lower Mainland.
- Jenna Benchetrit
Poilievre is the last of the major party leaders to release a costed platform. During an exchange yesterday with CBC reporter J.P. Tasker, he confirmed the plan would be released today.
The Conservative leader described his platform as one that will “bring home the country that we knew and love.”
What might that entail? According to Poilievre, we can expect tax cuts, measures to boost home building and natural resource development, bolstered border security and a crackdown on crime — essentially, the main pillars of his campaign over these last few weeks.
What we’re waiting to see today is how he plans to pay for all of it.
- Marina von Stackelberg
Singh is surrounded by supporters at a rally in Port Moody, B.C., on Monday. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press) I'm one of the Parliamentary bureau reporters travelling with the NDP this week.
Last night, the New Democrats held their first campaign rally in Port Moody-Coquitlam. This Metro Vancouver seat has turned into a three-way race with the Conservatives and Liberals in the past, and incumbent Bonita Zarrillo won the riding for the NDP by six per cent over the Conservative candidate in 2021.
"In this election, British Columbians will decide what happens next — whether Mark Carney gets a super majority, or whether there are enough New Democrats in Parliament to hold the line,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told the crowd of close to 400 supporters.
Winning ridings in BC is key to this party’s survival; half of all the NDP’s 24 current seats are in this province.
Former Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies also showed up to rally support. She asked the audience to “remember 1993,” when the NDP lost official party status and she said the Liberals moved their policies to the right.
“We were not there to fight back. We were there, but we didn’t have party status, and so this is a really important thing that we have to remind people as we’re out there voting in this last week,” she said.
The CBC Poll Tracker has the NDP at just over eight per cent in the polls — with the seat projection showing it could be on track to lose official party status, which requires at least 12 MPs in the House of Commons.
- Lucas Powers
Welcome. I’m a producer based in Toronto and I’ll be your live page curator for today.
With just six days until Canadians go to the polls, the major party leaders only have so many more opportunities to make their pitches to undecided voters.
We’re anticipating a busy morning, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre set to release his costed platform at a stop in Vaughan, Ont., a city in the electorally critical Greater Toronto Area.
Stay with us as we break down what’s in the platform, and all the other developments from the campaign trail today.
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