Canada election: Duelling tax cut proposals take centre stage on the campaign trail

How the authorities is guarding against predetermination interference

The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) task force, which is made up of Canada’s nationalist information agencies, volition show for immoderate overseas interference threats during the predetermination period.

The agencies included successful the task unit see the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), Global Affairs and the RCMP.

There volition besides beryllium a protocol to determine whether a menace meets the threshold for a nationalist announcement, Kempton said.

“We privation to debar elevating oregon drafting unnecessary attraction to a insignificant incidental that could nutrient antagonistic consequences oregon unwanted alarm,” she said. A nationalist endorsement, for example, doesn’t conscionable the criteria for overseas interference.

Elections Canada has been successful interaction with societal media platforms astir misinformation

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The caput of Elections Canada says helium has been successful interaction with societal media platforms successful an effort to code concerns astir misinformation arsenic Canada wades into an predetermination campaign.

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault told reporters contiguous that helium has reached retired to societal media sites specified arsenic X and TikTok to "seek their enactment to making this predetermination a unafraid election." He said helium has been satisfied with the effect truthful far.

"We'll spot what enactment really takes spot during the election. Hopefully they won't person to intervene, but if determination are issues, hopefully they volition beryllium existent to their word," helium said.

Perrault said helium would marque his connection and the effect from the platforms public.

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How our electoral strategy works

Canada uses a first-past-the-post strategy to determine which enactment forms authorities — and by extension, which enactment person becomes premier minister.

It starts with a contention successful each of the country’s 343 national ridings, which are represented by a spot successful the House of Commons. The enactment campaigner who wins the astir votes successful each riding wins the seat, nary bulk needed, and becomes that riding’s subordinate of Parliament. Some candidates mightiness take to tally without a enactment affiliation.

Usually, the enactment with the astir elected MPs forms government, and the Governor General — the King’s typical successful Canada — asks the person of that enactment to go premier minister. The second-place enactment forms the Official Opposition, led by the Leader of the Official Opposition.

If a enactment wins much than fractional the seats successful the House of Commons, it tin signifier a bulk government. This allows its MPs to walk laws successful enactment with their party's docket adjacent if each of the different parties’ MPs ballot against them.

If nary 1 wins a bulk of seats, past a number authorities is formed. It’s overmuch much challenging to walk authorities this way, due to the fact that it requires buy-in from different parties.

Right now, the Government of Canada is giving an update connected its program to support the national predetermination against overseas interference.

“Maintaining spot successful our electoral strategy is paramount,” said Laurie-Anne Kempton, a typical from the Privy Council Office.

‘How the hellhole bash you mean to bash that?’

Speaking during the run motorboat for the Bloc Québécois successful Quebec City, enactment person Yves-François Blanchet was asked however helium tin “compete” with taxation cuts announced by the Conservatives and Liberals this week.

“I don’t person to vie with that but fto maine accidental something. How the hellhole bash you mean to bash that?” responded Blanchet.

He said the Conservatives are promising to chopped expenses, but questioned whether it was the close happening to do, oregon whether “the infinitesimal is much due to enactment enterprise, companies and jobs.”

Turning to the Liberals, Blanchet said there’s “no mode connected earth” they’d beryllium capable to negociate their plan. “You person to get much income to walk much — and if you lone chopped and chopped and cut, you person to archer america wherever you volition marque those cuts.”

“So it seems similar alternatively of Mr. Carney convincing Mr. Poilievre to person a program, Mr. Poilievre has convinced Mr. Carney to person lone slogans.”

Carney thinks Trump is waiting for predetermination results to talk

Carney was asked astir a remark helium made implying that Trump is waiting for the results of the national predetermination earlier helium arranges a telephone telephone with the Canadian premier curate — whoever that whitethorn beryllium aft April 28.

“That’s an interpretation, but I deliberation it’s a tenable interpretation,” Carney said. As premier minister, Carney has not yet spoken with Trump connected the phone.

“I’m disposable for a call, but we’re going to speech connected our terms. As a sovereign state — not arsenic what helium pretends we are — and connected a broad deal.”

Asked what helium makes of Poilievre’s taxation cut, which is larger than the 1 announced by the Liberals yesterday, Carney said, “It’s a cardinal quality successful approach.”

He said the Liberals person a balanced attack and that Poilievre has a elemental approach.

Carney has said that his program is to alteration the gait of maturation of authorities spending, and measure spending programs that aren’t starring to desired results.

But helium said contiguous that a Liberal authorities wouldn’t backtrack connected spending transfers, including $10/day kid care, pharmacare oregon dental care.

“[Poilievre’s] effect with the tariff warfare and the gross that the authorities is collecting from the retaliatory tariffs — helium said, ‘I’m going to usage that to chopped taxes.’ We accidental we’re going to bash that to support workers who are straight affected.”

Leaders' statement dates announced

The leaders of the main national governmental parties volition beryllium invited to instrumentality portion successful a French statement April 16 astatine 8 p.m. ET and an English statement April 17 astatine 7 p.m. ET.

The Leaders’ Debates Commission made the announcement this morning.

Parties person to conscionable astatine slightest 2 of these 3 criteria to participate:

• Be represented successful the House of Commons by astatine slightest 1 MP earlier dissolution.
• Be polling astatine slightest 4 per cent nationally 28 days earlier voting day.
• Have candidates nominated successful astatine slightest 90 per cent of national ridings crossed Canada 28 days earlier the national election.

Both events volition beryllium hosted astatine the Maison de Radio-Canada successful Montreal.

The committee is simply a authorities bureau created successful 2018 to signifier national leaders' debates. It volition denote which leaders volition beryllium invited to enactment connected April 1.

What mightiness a Poilievre furniture look like?

Poilievre was asked whether helium would sanction immoderate imaginable furniture ministers.

He said helium wouldn’t sanction his aboriginal furniture today, but added, “I tin archer you that we person a precise experienced squad susceptible of moving a government.”

He specifically named Ryan Williams, existent MP successful Bay of Quinte, Ont.; Quebec MP Pierre Paul-Hus, who holds the spot successful Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles; and Yves Lévesque, erstwhile politician of Trois-Rivières, Que.

“I’m not going to name my furniture close now. I’m conscionable telling you that we person a large team,” said Poilievre successful French.

Carney focusing connected Canada-U.S. relationship

Mark Carney is present speaking from his run lawsuit successful Gander, N.L., highlighting the Canada-U.S. relationship.

As I mentioned earlier, Gander famously welcomed thousands of hose passengers whose flights were rerouted to the tiny Canadian municipality connected Sept. 11, 2001.

“We showed up — Canada showed up — for America,” said Carney. “And that was not conscionable successful times of calm erstwhile it’s easy, but successful times of situation erstwhile it’s hard.”