Canada election: Poilievre to pledge tax haven crackdown fresh off of Harper endorsement

Here’s today’s polling update courtesy of TheWrit.ca’s Éric Grenier, who manages CBC’s aggregated Poll Tracker passim the predetermination period.

From Éric:

“The Liberals would beryllium highly apt to triumph the astir seats, and precise apt a bulk government, if an predetermination were held today. The enactment could triumph 200 seats oregon much for the archetypal clip successful its past connected existent polling numbers,” helium wrote.

“The Conservatives would signifier a sizable opposition, portion the Bloc and NDP would spot their spot holdings importantly reduced.”

Carney held a rally past nighttime successful Richmond, B.C.

Liberals told elder newsman Catharine Tunney that astir 2,000 radical were successful the main country to perceive Carney’s speech, with different 400 successful an overflow room.

Tunney, who’s been pursuing Carney’s campaign, said 1 infinitesimal that stood retired to her was erstwhile Carney told the assemblage the champion mode to instrumentality connected Trump is to springiness Liberals a beardown mandate (that is, he’s asking for a majority).

She said that was memorable “not due to the fact that we haven't heard it before, but due to the fact that it elicited specified a beardown cheer successful the room.”

Greens to contiguous health-care level today

Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May is acceptable to unveil her party’s health-care level contiguous astatine 10 a.m. ET, successful Guelph, Ont.

We expect to perceive much details astir however the enactment would grow wellness security sum and marque intelligence wellness attraction and medicine much accessible to Canadians.

Separately, co-leader Jonathan Pedneault volition beryllium campaigning successful his riding of Outremont, successful Montreal.

Harper endorses Poilievre

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In lawsuit you missed it, Poilievre picked up an endorsement past nighttime successful Edmonton from erstwhile premier curate Stephen Harper.

Harper is usually selective with his appearances. But helium went connected signifier astatine the rally — wherever enactment organizers said determination were 12,000 oregon much radical — to present Poilievre with a 10-minute speech.

“Elected accountable governmental acquisition and the capableness for maturation with that governmental acquisition — that is what Pierre has demonstrated for 2 decades and that is the azygous astir important diagnostic a premier curate needs,” Harper said.

As my workfellow Verity Stevenson reported, the erstwhile premier curate inactive wields power successful blimpish circles and arsenic seat of the International Democracy Union, a planetary confederation of centre-right governmental parties.

Somehow it’s already Day 17!

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It’s Day 17 of the national predetermination run — which means we’re astir halfway to predetermination day. Here’s what’s connected the docket today:

• Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May volition unveil the party’s health-care level astatine 10 a.m. ET successful Guelph, Ont.
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is successful Edmonton, wherever he’ll marque a pledge to ace down connected offshore taxation havens astatine 8:30 a.m. MT (10:30 a.m. ET).
• Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet volition talk to media astatine 11 a.m. ET successful beforehand of the Supreme Court of Canada successful Ottawa. He’s expected to speech astir the notwithstanding clause.
• Liberal Leader Mark Carney is successful Delta, B.C., making an announcement astatine 9:30 a.m. PT (12:30 p.m. ET). He hinted astatine past night’s rally that it mightiness beryllium astir housing.
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh volition marque an announcement astatine 9:30 a.m. PT (12:30 p.m. ET) successful Vancouver.

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