Canada election: Quebec’s biggest leaders debate cancelled after Carney turns down invite

TVA cancels Face-à-Face debate, blames Carney's absence

There's much fallout to Carney's determination not to enactment successful a national leaders’ statement organized by backstage French-language network, TVA.

TVA had asked enactment leaders to wage $75,000 each to enactment successful the statement to offset $300,000 of accumulation costs.

The Quebecor Media enactment present says it's cancelling the full happening aft the Liberal Party said Carney wouldn't instrumentality part.

How bash the Liberals and Conservatives program to chopped taxes and equilibrium the books?

This seems to beryllium the question of the day.

Both the Conservatives and Liberals are promising varying taxation cuts for the lowest-income bracket of Canadians, who wage 15 per cent successful national taxes connected their archetypal $57,375 successful taxable income.

Both Carney and Poilievre promised to little authorities spending and trim the country's debt, which stands astatine $1.3 trillion.

Carney has projected a 1 per cent chopped to the lowest taxation bracket successful Canada, portion Poilievre would chopped it by 2.15 per cent. Mahmood Nanji, a argumentation chap astatine Ivey Business School, said a chopped of either size would beryllium "very, precise expensive."

Poilievre's connection is estimated to outgo $14 cardinal erstwhile the taxation chopped is afloat implemented successful 2027-28.

"We volition beryllium cutting bureaucracy, cutting consultants, cutting backmost connected handouts to insiders and we volition chopped backmost connected overseas aid," Poilievre said, answering a question by the Globe and Mail's Bill Currie.

Poilievre is besides proposing a "dollar-for-dollar instrumentality requiring ministers to find 1 dollar of caller savings for each dollar of caller spending."

Carney has said, if elected, helium volition boost investments that volition assistance wage for cuts. Both leaders accidental they volition backmost their proposals up with numbers soon.

From 'why not?' to not truthful much

Hi there, I'm Verity, taking implicit from the greeting team. Carney volition not be the statement being organized by the backstage French-language web TVA.

The TVA statement is abstracted from the commission's statement and it comes with a $75,000 terms tag for participants. The Quebecor Media-owned web says it needs to rise $300,000 to screen accumulation costs.

The Conservative Party, Bloc Québécois and NDP person confirmed they volition participate.

At first, Carney appeared to hold to articulation in. Asked successful French astatine his quality league Monday greeting whether helium would go, the Liberal person said, "Why not?"

But a Liberal Party spokesperson soon followed up to accidental Carney would successful information not beryllium portion of the TVA's projected "Face à Face."

"He looks guardant to participating successful the authoritative debates organized by the Leaders' Debates Commission," said run spokesperson Guillaume Bertrand.

The Liberal run is taking disconnected for Halifax aft Liberal Leader Mark Carney spent the time successful Gander, N.L.

Gander famously took successful thousands of planetary travellers connected Sept. 11, 2001, aft their planes were diverted pursuing the violent attacks successful the U.S. Carney met with Beulah Cooper and Diane Davis, locals who helped stranded passengers.

Davis, a retired teacher, said they “represent thousands successful this territory who stood up that day, and past hundreds of thousands of arrogant Canadians who realized that this is the close happening to do."

Carney said what Gander did is an illustration of the “unbreakable bond” betwixt Canadians and Americans.

“Unfortunately, President Trump's actions person enactment that kinship nether greater strain contiguous than astatine immoderate clip successful our storied history,” helium said.

NDP taking the scenic route

Good afternoon. I’m a elder newsman with the CBC News Parliamentary bureau presently covering the NDP campaign.

We’re successful for a agelong thrust connected the NDP autobus today. The run conscionable near Montreal en way to Toronto, and we person a six-hour-plus thrust up of us. That's a batch of clip to walk connected the roadworthy erstwhile New Democrats are down successful the polls — astir a full time connected the roadworthy alternatively of campaigning.

I asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh whether spending truthful overmuch clip connected the roadworthy was the close move. Why not fly? (The enactment has secured a level for this campaign, but it won’t get utilized successful the archetypal week.)

“I privation folks to know, wherever you are, whether you're successful Toronto, whether you're successful Montreal, East Coast, West Coast, northbound oregon south, you were amended disconnected erstwhile you've got a New Democrat warring for you,” Singh said.

Next stop: the riding of Taiaiako'n-Parkdale-High Park successful Ontario. Only 4 hours to go.

Fact check: national lands for housing

This is Ishitaa Chopra, a shaper with our CBC News predetermination information cheque team.

The NDP claims the Liberals person been sitting connected a portion of onshore for years that could person been utilized for affordable housing.

Last year, the national authorities announced plans to physique 3.9 cardinal homes by 2031. Rather than constructing the homes itself, it has made properties disposable to developers, successful efforts to boost proviso and little costs. Currently, 90 properties covering 473 hectares of onshore person been identified for imaginable development.

This connection differs from the NDP’s, arsenic they suggest the authorities should ain and physique the affordable lodging itself.

Fact check: authorities spending

This is from Stephen Hoff, a shaper presently moving with our CBC News predetermination information cheque team:

Pierre Poilievre claimed contiguous that national authorities spending roseate 80 per cent nether the Liberals. Not quite, but Canada’s nationalist fund has grown substantially since Justin Trudeau’s archetypal fund successful 2016 and his past successful 2024. According to fund documents, spending has risen astir 70 per cent (however, those calculations don’t instrumentality into relationship inflation).

Poilievre besides said the nationalist indebtedness has doubled. That is correct. Canada’s nationalist indebtedness has astir doubled successful the aforesaid play from $619 cardinal to $1.2 trillion successful the past budget.

People’s Party person says he’ll deed intermission connected immigration

Maxime Bernier and the People’s Party of Canada are launching their authoritative run today, too, from Saint-Georges, Que.

Bernier has described his enactment — which came retired successful beardown absorption to COVID-19 lockdowns, and has called for migration cuts — arsenic the populist alternate to Canada’s “globalist” large parties.

Speaking successful French, Bernier said the 4 large pillars of the PPC’s level volition beryllium the following: a intermission connected immigration; an extremity to “woke” policies, specifically those related to trans radical and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; boosting the system by cutting spending; and implementing what helium called “pro-Canada” policies related to nationalist information and immigration.

“Our state is broken,” helium said.

Bernier received astir 5 per cent of the nationalist ballot during the 2021 national election. He’s been accused of courting far-right support, but has said that achromatic supremacists and extremists aren’t invited successful the party.

Last week, Bernier was interviewed by InfoWars laminitis and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Hi, I'm our elder concern correspondent.

In a batch of ways, the Liberal and Conservative taxation chopped proposals are precise similar. Both are trying to bring down the taxation complaint paid successful the lowest bracket.

Right now, Canadians wage 15 per cent successful national taxes connected their archetypal $57,375 successful taxable income.

The Conservative program would bring that down to 12.75 per cent.

The Liberal program would trim the taxation load to 14 per cent.

Remember, two-thirds of Canadian taxation filers marque little than $57,375. So these reductions would assistance the bulk of Canadian families.

But economists volition accidental a determination to driblet that lowest complaint volition besides payment precocious earners (even the highest-income Canadians wage the aforesaid complaint connected that archetypal chunk of income).

Government wants voters to enactment vigilant

Before its property league started earlier this morning, the authorities shared its program to support voters, MPs and candidates from overseas interference.

It’s urging voters to enactment informed truthful they tin admit the signs of disinformation and overseas interference. The RCMP and section constabulary volition besides supply outreach to communities who are astatine hazard of being targeted.

MPs volition beryllium notified if there’s a credible menace against them oregon their families, and they tin get threat-specific briefings from nationalist information agencies.

Major enactment leaders volition person information made disposable to them for the duration of the campaign. Some enactment representatives were fixed a wide briefing by the task unit earlier the predetermination was called.