Canada election: Carney rolls out housing plan as Liberal candidate under fire for China bounty comment

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• Mark Carney called a Liberal candidate's comments a "terrible lapse of judgment" but said Paul Chiang would inactive transportation the party's banner successful the riding of Markham-Unionville.
• Carney besides released his signature lodging platform.
• Pierre Poilievre mounted a defence of his Conservative Party run messaging, saying the predetermination can't lone beryllium astir U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Poilievre says Chiang incidental shows Carney won’t basal up for Canada

During a run halt successful Fredericton today, Poilievre was asked astir Carney saying that helium sees Paul Chiang’s bounty comments arsenic a “teachable moment.”

“It is simply a teachable moment. It teaches america that Mark Carney volition ne'er basal up for Canada,” said Poilievre, who seized connected the incidental during the weekend, calling for Chiang to beryllium disqualified from the race.

“The Chinese authorities virtually wants to termination Joe Tay due to the fact that he’s a governmental dissident. And this campaigner said that that should happen,” added Poilievre.

“I person ne'er successful my beingness seen a premier curate unwilling to support a Canadian national against a overseas authorities that wants to instrumentality his beingness done a bounty.”

A bounty is simply a reward for uncovering and capturing a wanted person. The bounty connected Tay is for accusation that would pb to his arrest, the Associated Press reported successful December.

Carney, who said contiguous that helium spoke with Chiang implicit the weekend, has stood by the candidate, telling reporters that the Liberal campaigner has apologized and is simply a idiosyncratic of integrity.

Liberals driblet a connection aft projected lodging agency’s French sanction mocked online

I'm a elder newsman with the Parliamentary bureau covering the Liberal run this week.

The Liberals conscionable did a speedy li’l renovation to the French-language sanction of the bureau they announced they would make this morning. Presented initially during the quality league arsenic Bâtir Maisons Canada successful French (translated from Building Homes Canada), it elicited a batch of raised eyebrows from Quebecers and French Canadians.

Simply put, it sounds similar thing the Hulk mightiness say: a clump of words with nary prepositions, adverbs oregon pronouns.

One commentator rapidly got an AI representation whipped up of Mark Carney appearing to larn French from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial successful a classroom.

It got picked up by a Bloc Québécois candidate. And determination was adjacent affable fire, from a erstwhile Liberal staffer.

By this afternoon, it was wide the run unit had gotten each the messages from those who phoned home. Carney posted connected X with the agency's caller sanction en français: Maisons Canada.

Singh pitches the NDP to B.C.’s plaything voters

The NDP person fielded a fewer questions contiguous astir the challenges his enactment faces — including accepted New Democrat voters who mightiness beryllium casting a strategical ballot for the Liberals, and contention from non-Liberal opponents successful B.C.’s plaything ridings.

Singh boosted a fewer policies the enactment sees arsenic large achievements, including the NDP’s relation successful passing dental attraction and pharmacare.

“Electing New Democrats volition marque a large quality successful your life,” said Singh.

He called for voters to elite much NDP representatives to Parliament — but avoided immoderate proposition the enactment volition signifier government. The CBC’s Poll Tracker shows the NDP is connected way for 1 of the worst predetermination results successful its history.

The enactment is facing pugnacious contention from the Greens and the Conservatives successful immoderate Vancouver Island ridings, which person a past of being orange-blue swings.

Voters successful Chiang’s riding measurement in

Hi, shaper Michelle Song here.

I'm speaking to voters successful the parking batch of a fashionable promenade wrong Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang's Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville.

Edwin Nebrija lives successful the area. He said though helium volition beryllium supporting Mark Carney successful this election, helium thinks Chiang should retreat his candidacy.

“I don’t deliberation helium should tally anymore, adjacent if helium apologized.… You cannot accidental that,” helium said of Chiang suggesting a Conservative campaigner should beryllium turned successful to a Chinese consulate for a bounty.

Alan Graf has lived successful Markham for much than 30 years. He said helium volition beryllium voting for Chiang adjacent aft proceeding his comments.

“I deliberation it’s conscionable each overblown,” Graf said.

He believes Chiang has done a batch for the riding arsenic a subordinate of Parliament and arsenic a erstwhile constabulary officer. Graf said the Liberal campaigner has apologized and determination are different issues radical should absorption on.

Carney enactment enactment implicit state successful lasting by Chiang, says Singh

Singh was asked again astir Carney’s determination to basal by Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang. Chiang is facing unit to measurement down aft helium called for Conservative campaigner Joe Tay to beryllium turned successful to the Chinese consulate successful speech for a bounty. He has since apologized.

“It is truly disturbing. And for Mark Carney to accidental that, ‘I’m going to judge this candidate,’ truly sends a connection that that benignant of commentary yet is acceptable,” said Singh, who archetypal commented connected the incidental during the weekend.

The NDP person said Carney’s stance sends a connection to voters and families acrophobic of overseas interference that they are little important than the Liberal Party’s interests, and that — successful Singh’s presumption — Carney has decided to support his enactment implicit the country.

Carney said earlier contiguous that Chiang apologized to Tay, to the assemblage and to Carney, and that helium believes Chiang to beryllium a antheral of integrity.

NDP wants to extremity lipid and state subsidies, retrofit homes

An NDP authorities volition extremity lipid and state subsidies and reroute the wealth to families to retrofit their homes and marque them much environmentally friendly, said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. He is successful Victoria, B.C., contiguous announcing the party’s program to support the environment.

Singh said the program volition spot 3.3 cardinal homes retrofitted implicit 10 years. Low-income families volition person escaped upgrades, and the remaining wealth volition beryllium fixed to higher-income families successful the signifier of loans and grants, helium said.

‘There’s thing successful it for Quebec,’ Blanchet says of Energy East

The Energy East pipeline task is “irrevocably dead,” Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet declared successful French during a property league contiguous successful La Pocatière, Que.

The Energy East plan, which would person shipped Alberta crude lipid to New Brunswick, was dropped successful 2017 partially due to the fact that of regulatory hurdles, and partially owed to absorption from Quebec connected biology grounds.

Some premiers and manufacture groups person precocious called for the task to beryllium revived.

But Blanchet said the task doesn’t presently person investors, wealth oregon a marketplace — and that it would “optimistically” instrumentality 8 to 10 years to implicit it. The comments came soon aft his hostile Poilievre reiterated enactment for a west-to-east pipeline.

Blanchet repeated his statement that the Energy East pipeline doesn’t service Quebecers, claiming it has the “single aim” of promoting the Western lipid industry.

“It was prevented due to the fact that Quebecers simply didn’t privation it,” said Blanchet successful French. “There’s thing successful it for Quebec.”

The presumption connected tariffs from Ontario’s dairy country

Hi, I study unrecorded connected CBC News Network. Today I'm successful Oxford County, Ont., known arsenic the food superior of Canada and wherever the commercialized food manufacture was founded.

U.S. President Donald Trump has taken purpose astatine Canada's dairy assemblage and its proviso absorption system, truthful we wanted to cheque successful with dairy producers successful this area.

"Definitely immoderate anxiousness astir what we perceive southbound of the border, but we person bully enactment from our Canadian customers," said Joe Doré, who runs a dairy workplace with his household successful New Dundee.

"I deliberation it would beryllium a prevarication if I said it wasn't a worry. Dairy farmers are ever disquieted that proviso absorption is nether attack," helium said.

What does helium privation to perceive from Canada's governmental leaders successful the midst of Trump's threats?

"We ever person beardown enactment from each the parties, and what I privation is for them to travel done connected that and support our strategy arsenic it is. Let america support making beverage and supplying Canadians with what they need," said Doré.

He said dairy farmers admit the “buy local” sentiment being expressed by Canadians close now.

"We enactment hard. We're retired present each time — our life's enactment is to look aft our cows," helium said. "We truly admit the enactment that we bash get."

The Liberals announced their signature lodging argumentation this morning, which they accidental would treble the gait of caller operation crossed the state and bring down the terms of homes.

Our predetermination information cheque portion enactment unneurotic this snapshot of the existent authorities of lodging costs:

The mean terms of a location has grown dramatically nether some Liberal and Conservative governments, but particularly successful caller years.

As of February 2025, a Canadian location costs an mean of $713,700. That’s down from the highest successful 2022, erstwhile the pandemic led to a spike successful prices that deed an mean of $852,000.

When the Liberals won the predetermination successful 2015, prices averaged astir $441,000. Back successful 2006, erstwhile the Conservatives took power, the mean terms was astir $263,000.

When it comes to rent, nether the Liberal government, the terms of rent grew faster than salaries. Under the erstwhile Conservative government, wage maturation outpaced rent increases.