Canada election: Leaders clash on pipelines, housing and who’s best to take on Trump

Poilievre clarifies presumption connected cutting overseas aid

Poilievre was pressed connected his presumption to chopped backmost connected overseas aid. The big asked: would helium chopped assistance to Ukraine, Ethiopia oregon Haiti?

“No,” responded Poiilievre, alternatively vowing to chopped disconnected China, pointing to millions the authorities has spent done the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Canada suspended engagement with the instauration successful 2023.

He would besides chopped disconnected backing for UNRWA, the United Nations alleviation bureau for Palestinians.

Last year, the bureau fired a tiny fig of unit successful the Gaza Strip who were accused of supporting Hamas successful its October 2023 onslaught connected Israel. The Canadian authorities was among the countries that archetypal paused and past restored UNRWA backing arguing it is indispensable to providing life-saving assistance to Palestinians.

“The assistance we springiness should beryllium straight to radical successful request and not done bureaucracies [or] multi-national bureaucracies,” Poilievre said.

Singh asks Carney wherefore helium doesn't usage the connection 'genocide'

Singh asked Carney astir his presumption connected Gaza.

"Mr. Carney, wherefore don't you telephone it what it is? It's a genocide," Singh said, adding that some Israelis and Palestinians merit "peace and safety."

Carney reiterated his stance connected whether he’d usage the connection genocide to picture what’s happening successful Gaza, saying he’d ne'er usage the word to “politicize” the situation.

Carney volition support UNRWA funding

Carney is asked point-blank if he’ll support backing to UNRWA, the United Nations alleviation bureau for Palestinians. He said yes.

Ottawa paused backing to the enactment aft the Israeli authorities alleged that its unit were connected to the Oct. 7 onslaught by Hamas. It resumed aft receiving a study from the UN that made it “comfortable” to bash so.

Singh goes aft Poilievre connected UNRWA position

Responding to a question astir what overseas assistance helium would cut, Poilievre said helium would destruct backing to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 1 of the lone assistance groups connected the crushed successful Gaza. Poilievre accused UNRWA employees of being progressive successful the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks connected Israel.

Singh took contented with the allegation.

“What you said astir UNRWA was disgusting.… Calling it a violent enactment is unacceptable. It’s hateful and it’s wholly inappropriate,” helium said.

Slowing migration to process files rapidly

Blanchet said newcomers successful Canada hazard feeling mislaid due to the fact that their migration files aren’t being processed successful a timely manner.

“Why not dilatory things down until we person a bully strategy and a bully nationalist work for migration that tin woody with files successful a fewer months?” Blanchet said, alternatively of perchance up to a twelvemonth oregon more.

Carney said helium is much oregon little successful statement with Blanchet but Canada needs to enactment successful a just mode for all.

Blanchet calls for much migration powers for Quebec

Quebec needs to beryllium capable to found what its migration targets are, Blanchet said.

“We don’t privation to import susceptible workers due to the fact that we simply request people,” helium said.

Immigration headdress OK until Canada has ‘capacity,’ says Carney

Onto migration now. Carney said he’s successful favour of a headdress connected each migration — for “certainly” a fewer years — during periods erstwhile the state doesn’t person the “capacity” to instrumentality successful much newcomers.

“We person to beryllium human, but we person to beryllium realistic. Canada can’t judge everyone,” helium said earlier, erstwhile the leaders were asked astir Haitian asylum seekers coming to Quebec.

There's astatine slightest 1 Quebecer not watching the statement due to the fact that of the Habs crippled close now. That's Premier François Legault — who happens to beryllium astatine the game.

RDS, the French counterpart to TSN, posted a video to X of Legault taking his spot astatine the Bell Centre successful Montreal.

Singh questions Poilievre’s subject cred

While discussing his enactment for atomic power, Poilievre said helium would get escaped of politicians connected the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and permission it to scientists to marque atomic policy.

Singh instantly piped in, saying, “This is the archetypal clip I’ve ever heard Mr. Poilievre accidental thing pro-science.”

'That’s however Canada works’

On the taxable of pipelines, Carney was pressed by Roy connected whether he’d springiness veto powers to Indigenous communities and Quebec connected a pipeline similar the Energy East task that was killed successful 2017 — oregon if he’d “impose” it.

Carney said pipelines request support from Quebec and different provinces, and the enactment of Indigenous people.

“This is Canada; that’s however Canada works.”

Roy repeatedly asked Poilievre the aforesaid question. In response, Poilievre questioned the thought that a pipeline would person absorption from the radical of Quebec.