Canada election: Poilievre takes questions as his lack of security clearance in campaign spotlight

Windy time astatine the Poilievre announcement

There were immoderate funny onlookers but they peeled disconnected during Poilievre’s peculiarly lengthy French remarks today.

There’s nary uncertainty the leader’s champion enactment among the radical assembled present was his “jail not bail” pledge — it got coagulated applause and whoops from these operation workers. That’s a notation to his committedness to support repetition offenders incarcerated alternatively than merchandise them up of a trial.

An awkward concern successful Central Nova

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Carney was asked successful Halifax this greeting astir the quality that erstwhile Liberal MP Sean Fraser has decided to tally for re-election.

Carney said we would person to hold a fewer hours to spot if it was existent — alluding to an announcement that's expected to hap successful Fraser's erstwhile riding of Central Nova this afternoon.

It creates a spot of an awkward situation, since the Liberals conscionable nominated a campaigner for the Central Nova riding past week. The nominee, Graham Murray, was the lone Nova Scotia Liberal campaigner absent from Carney's quality successful Halifax.

Carney’s TVA statement interest is connected me, Poilievre says

During his announcement, Poilievre took a changeable astatine Carney for declining to enactment successful a statement organized by TVA. The statement would person required that each enactment wage a $75,000 fee.

While the different large parties agreed to wage and participate, TVA cancelled the statement erstwhile Carney declined.

“I’ll adjacent wage Mr. Carney’s interest — truthful that helium tin amusement up – we’ll instrumentality that excuse distant from him,” said Poilievre. “Conservatives volition adjacent wage the interest to bring him up.”

Poilievre said Carney is “hiding” from having to support the Liberal record, and asked however Carney volition beryllium beardown capable to basal up to U.S. President Donald Trump if he’s excessively acrophobic to debate.

‘Not idiosyncratic we tin spot to beryllium the premier minister’

During a run halt successful Toronto today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was asked astir the study that India meddled successful the 2022 Conservative enactment race.

Singh said the beingness of the allegations was already known and that Poilievre inactive refused to get information clearance.

CSIS said successful December that it would stock immoderate accusation astir alleged interference with Poilievre, who has maintained that obtaining information clearance and reviewing classified documents would muzzle him.

“If you cared astir the country, if you cared astir democracy, you would get the information clearance and find retired arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable to support our country,” said Singh.

To clarify, Radio-Canada confirmed contiguous that CSIS has nary grounds that Poilievre oregon his squad were alert of the circumstantial efforts successful question.

Singh said that Poilievre enactment his party’s interests implicit those of the country, and that this disqualifies him arsenic a viable campaigner for premier minister. Singh went connected to accidental that the Conservative person doesn’t instrumentality threats against the state seriously.

“That is not idiosyncratic we tin spot to beryllium the premier minister,” Singh said.

Poilievre pitches nixing GST from immoderate caller homes

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Poilievre is present speaking during an announcement successful Vaughan, Ont., a suburban country northbound of Toronto.

We’re successful an unfinished lodging improvement truthful Poilievre tin transportation his program to exempt homes worthy up to $1.3 cardinal from the GST. He says it’s a mode to “bring anticipation to caller homebuyers aft Liberal inflation.”

There are astir 18 operation workers present connected this acold blustery greeting — the media and Conservative staffing contingent is overmuch bigger than that.

The folks assembled present don’t look terribly excited. I deliberation it’s the upwind conditions — you can’t blasted them. The upwind is whipping disconnected the vacant workplace fields that situation this caller development.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is backmost successful the seat-rich GTA this greeting to clasp a quality league successful Vaughan, Ont. It’s expected he’ll tract questions astir caller accusation this greeting from CSIS that Indian agents allegedly meddled successful the 2022 Conservative enactment race.

His run besides announced contiguous that a Conservative authorities would region the GST connected caller homes up to $1.3 cardinal successful price.

A rundown of that defence announcement

My workfellow Murray Brewster, who is CBC’s elder defence reporter, shared his thoughts connected Carney’s subject announcement.

“What we saw contiguous was a rehash of a batch of the things that the authorities is already doing,” helium said.

Here’s what’s really new: updating the seashore guard’s mandate; investing successful dense icebreakers for the Navy; and utilizing Canadian alloy successful large defence production. But, arsenic Brewster points out, we’re inactive waiting connected a afloat program from the Liberals.

One eyebrow-raising infinitesimal was Carney’s connection that Canada would spouse with allies connected the adjacent procreation of combatant aircraft, including U.S. institution Lockheed Martin.

“The information that the Liberals are not proposing a reappraisal of that peculiar declaration is precise interesting, and it draws into question the full conception of being capable to crook distant from buying U.S. subject products,” said Brewster.

“It is thing that we’re going to person to look guardant to successful the Liberal defence argumentation — astir whether they are superior astir diversifying our subject purchases.”

Carney weighs successful connected the radical chat

Carney was asked whether helium has immoderate concerns astir Canada sharing confidential accusation with the U.S. successful airy of a bombshell communicative published by The Atlantic yesterday.

The U.S. magazine’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a radical chat with apical U.S. officials, including Vice-President J.D. Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said helium was looped successful connected top-secret plans to motorboat a drone onslaught targeting the Houthi rebels successful Yemen.

Carney said that he’s alert that accusation leaks from clip to time, and said it’s a “serious issue” from which lessons indispensable beryllium taken. He added that Canada has “a precise beardown quality concern with the U.S. done Five Eyes,” an quality confederation betwixt respective countries.

“My work is to program for the worst, is to deliberation astir the astir hard improvement of the caller menace situation — what it means for Canada and however bash we champion support Canada,” said Carney.

“Part of that effect is to beryllium much and much Canadian successful our defence capabilities, much and much Canadian successful our decisions, to instrumentality greater ownership ... We person to look retired for ourselves.”

Sean Fraser volition question re-election aft all

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A scoop from my colleague, Power & Politics big David Cochrane: Sean Fraser, the erstwhile Liberal lodging curate who stepped down from furniture successful December and said helium wouldn’t tally again, is changing his mind.

Sources archer CBC News Fraser volition denote contiguous helium volition question re-election successful his Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova. The sources said Fraser decided yesterday aft Carney called him and asked him to reconsider.

Fraser is conscionable the latest high-profile Liberal to reverse people connected this. New Brunswick MP Wayne Long likewise changed his mind.

And arsenic my workfellow Janyce McGregor notes, some Anita Anand and Helena Jaczek — the erstwhile curate of transport and the MP for Markham-Stouffville, respectively — said they would not tally again but were approached straight by Carney and asked to reconsider.

They did. Anand was named Minister of Innovation successful Carney’s cabinet, and Jaczek said she would tally for re-election successful her riding alternatively of retiring, arsenic was her archetypal plan.

Carney’s defence announcement

Carney says he’s announcing a caller program to “rebuild, reinvest and rearm” the military.

“Defence spending has much than doubled successful the past decade, but it’s not capable for the caller situation we’re in,” helium said astatine the Irving Shipyard successful Halifax.

Carney’s pledges included: filling the equipped forces’ shortage of 14,500 members; expanding the navy’s capableness with caller submarines and icebreakers successful the North; and speeding up concern successful the equipped forces “to support each inch of sovereign territory portion defending and supporting allies abroad.”