Canada election: Poilievre says costed platform coming tomorrow as last week of campaign underway

‘If you ask, I’ll springiness you my number’

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was the impermanent connected the fashionable Radio-Canada speech amusement Tout le monde en parle Sunday night, wherever helium mentioned Carney gave him his cellphone fig aft past week’s debates.

Asked by a newsman why, Carney said, “Because I'm a bully guy.”

“He asked for it. I gave it to him. If you ask, I’ll springiness you my number,” helium said, apt stressing retired his unit (I'm definite journalists volition effort to instrumentality him up connected his offer).

Joking that Ontario Premier Doug Ford hands retired his cellphone number, Carney said helium hopes helium won’t get thousands of messages from Blanchet.

Poilievre offers solidarity to Catholics mourning nonaccomplishment of Pope Francis

Before diving into his announcement this greeting successful Scarborough, Ont., Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre archetypal offered condolences to Catholics connected the decease of Pope Francis.

“His relation is of people astatine the centre of the Catholic Church and determination person been countless millions of Catholics and non-Catholics that person been inspired by his enactment successful religion and different domains,” Poilievre said.

“Our prayers are with each Catholics arsenic they laic to remainder the caput of the Catholic Church and we are successful solidarity successful remembering him and honouring his contributions.”

Liberal, NDP platforms are out

If you didn’t get the accidental to travel run sum during the agelong weekend, determination were immoderate beauteous large developments connected Saturday: the Liberals and NDP some released their costed platforms.

The Liberals pledged astir $130 cardinal successful caller measures implicit the adjacent 4 years, including a antecedently announced 1 percent constituent simplification successful the lowest marginal taxation rate, taking it to 14 per cent from 15 per cent.

When combined with existing spending, the commitments volition adhd $225 cardinal to the national debt.

You tin work much astir the Liberal level here.

At the bosom of the NDP level is simply a committedness to rise astir $94.5 cardinal by taxing the highly wealthy, a program designed to assistance concern tens of billions successful caller spending, present a taxation chopped for workers and grow Canada's health-care system.

The NDP said those commitments volition adhd $48 cardinal to the national shortage implicit the adjacent 4 years connected apical of the existing deficit.

Learn much astir the NDP level here.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has yet to merchandise a costed platform, but did accidental it would beryllium coming “soon.”

Carney suggests Conservatives would ‘give the Americans what they want’

As the run enters its last stretch, Carney is laying retired immoderate of his last arguments to Canadians, including a nonstop onslaught connected Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. He took peculiar attraction contiguous to effort and gully a enactment successful voters' minds betwixt U.S. President Donald Trump’s medication and Canadian Conservatives.

“The Conservative person doesn't similar our program to basal up to President Trump. Neither bash Trump's allies present successful Canada. Perhaps it’s a coincidence,” said Carney.

“Let's beryllium charitable. Maybe they judge what they're saying. Perhaps they judge the mode to support ourselves is to permission each Canadian to fend for themself. Maybe they judge that we should ‘go on to get along’ — that the mode to get done this situation is to support our heads down, to springiness the Americans what they want, and anticipation for the best.”

Poilievre has maintained helium would ne'er fto Canada go the 51st state.

Carney promises $4B to physique and renovate hospitals, clinics

Carney utilized his run halt to underscore the wellness commitments successful his platform, which was released Saturday.

The Liberal person is promising to walk $4 cardinal to physique and renovate captious wellness infrastructure similar hospitals, clinics and semipermanent attraction facilities, moving with provinces and territories.

Speaking from the University of Prince Edward Island, Carney besides promised to adhd thousands of caller doctors to the health-care strategy by creating much aesculapian schoolhouse and residency spaces.

The Liberal program includes moving with provinces to marque definite health-care professionals tin enactment anyplace successful Canada, streamline credential designation and enlistee doctors abroad.

Carney calls Pope Francis a dependable of ‘moral clarity’

I’m Cat Tunney, a elder newsman with CBC’s Parliamentary bureau. Liberal Leader Mark Carney is connected P.E.I. for a health-care related announcement, but archetypal addressed the decease of Pope Francis, calling him “the world’s conscience.”

“Pope Francis was a dependable of motivation clarity, spiritual courageousness and boundless compassion,” said Carney, a Catholic himself.

The erstwhile cardinal banker recounted a parable Francis shared successful 2014, which is besides cited successful Carney’s publication Values.

“He compared humanity to vino — rich, diverse, afloat of tone — and the marketplace to grappa — distilled, aggravated and astatine times disconnected — and helium called connected each of america to reintegrate quality values into our economical lives,” said Carney.

“He reminded america that markets don’t person values, radical do, and it’s our work to adjacent the gap, to crook that grappa into wine.”

The premier curate called Francis’s sojourn to Canada successful 2022 and his determination to contented an apology connected residential schools “a important measurement successful moving the religion guardant successful its travel toward meaningful reconciliation.”

Good morning, Canadians! I’m a shaper based successful Toronto and I’ll beryllium curating our unrecorded leafage updates today.

It is the past week of the 45th national predetermination campaign, and besides the last time of beforehand voting.

With small clip near connected the clock, the large enactment leaders volition beryllium pushing hard to sway voters inactive making up their minds.

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