Canada election: Singh set to speak in Edmonton as campaign enters home stretch

Blanchet faces a acquainted accusation

I’m Raffy Boudjikanian, a elder newsman with CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau pursuing the Bloc campaign.

"Monsieur Blanchet, bonjour," Martin Cozic, a lone diner sitting down for brunch astatine Petinos connected Montreal's South Shore, called retired this greeting portion Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was engaged successful shaking hands during a photograph op.

Cozic was sitting upright, intelligibly prepared for the moment.

"You look similar you're getting acceptable to inquire maine a question," Blanchet said with a smile.

Cozic’s question: however tin Blanchet unreal to beryllium utile to Quebecers portion relegating himself and his MPs to imperishable absorption status?

It’s an accusation acquainted to Blanchet. He instantly launched into his well-rehearsed defence, pointing retired the logical decision of specified a thesis would beryllium that each absorption parties are useless.

Cozic said it was a bully answer, shook Blanchet’s manus and fto the person determination on.

Cozic aboriginal admitted to journalists that helium has voted Liberal arsenic agelong arsenic helium tin remember, but is reasoning of voting for the NDP this time.

This is simply a uncommon benignant of power successful Quebec. According to sentiment polls, radical changing their votes are mostly switching from Bloc-blue to Liberal-red.

FACT CHECK: Who wrote the Liberal platform?

I’m Elizabeth Thompson, a elder newsman with CBC’s fact-checking unit.

At quality conferences and connected societal media this week, Poilievre has said repeatedly that the Liberal Party’s level was drafted for erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau and past the enactment simply switched Trudeau’s sanction for Mark Carney’s.

On Sunday, during a broadcast of CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, National Post newsman Catherine Lévesque said the Liberal level was prepared earlier Carney became person and Carney “only had to tweak a mates of things.”

Poilievre seized connected that, saying the lone alteration Carney made was to summation inflationary spending.

However, Mohammad Hussain, spokesperson for the Liberal Party campaign, denied Carney’s sanction was simply swapped successful for Trudeau’s.

“This is categorically false,” helium said. “While the Liberal Party of Canada consulted Canadians connected what they wanted to spot from their governmental party, the imaginativeness laid retired and the policies chosen successful the level are wholly of Mark Carney's. Much of the argumentation improvement besides began from erstwhile helium kicked disconnected his enactment campaign, and was based connected the economical pillars helium laid retired upon launching his campaign.”

Hussain said the Liberal Party has an extended grassroots web of members, advocates and experts contributing to its argumentation process, and it’s mean for parties to bash outreach and consultations connected argumentation earlier an predetermination campaign.

The latest from CBC’s Poll Tracker

Éric Grenier of TheWrit.ca — who manages CBC’s Poll Tracker passim the predetermination play — has today’s update connected wherever the polls stand.

“A bid of post-debate polls suggest that the borderline betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives has narrowed nationally, but the Liberals inactive clasp the lead,” helium wrote.

“The Conservatives are not closing the spread successful the important battlegrounds of Ontario and British Columbia, leaving the Liberals arsenic the dense favourites to triumph the astir seats — and apt a bulk government.”

Carney returns to cardinal battleground

We’re successful the aerial close present flying to Vancouver Island.

Carney is travelling to Victoria for the 2nd clip this campaign. The Liberals are targeting NDP campaigner Laurel Collins’s riding, which has been an NDP stronghold for astir 2 decades.

The past clip the Liberals won successful Victoria was backmost successful 2004. But with polls suggesting the NDP's enactment could beryllium collapsing successful the province, the run is sending Carney to areas wherever they deliberation his quality could marque a quality and assistance them win.

Carney is besides expected to halt successful New Westminster for the 2nd clip this contention — successful NDP campaigner Peter Julian’s riding.

B.C. is simply a cardinal battleground to ticker successful this election, with a bid of imaginable three-way races betwixt the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP.

Singh spent the agelong play campaigning successful the state to effort and clasp onto fractional of his party’s seats. Poilievre besides campaigned successful B.C. implicit the play and is expected to instrumentality to Nanaimo earlier predetermination day.

Carney disconnected to B.C. aft campaigning successful Quebec yesterday

I’m Ashley Burke, a elder newsman covering the Liberal campaign.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is flying to British Columbia this greeting aft spending Tuesday campaigning successful Quebec.

At a run halt yesterday astatine Chez Ben canteen successful Granby, Que., Carney enactment connected a chapeau arsenic helium headed into the kitchen, according to La Presse Canadienne newsman Michel Saba.

Carney joked that it was similar Donald Trump’s photo-op wherever helium staged moving the drive-thru astatine a McDonald’s, Saba said.

"I said I'm a small spot similar Trump, a small spot similar Trump astatine McDonald's," Carney said to a subordinate of his squad from the different broadside of the drive-thru window.

What’s called the “pool” media were astatine this whistle halt with Carney. The excavation is simply a tiny radical of videographers, photographers and a newsman who papers run stops, often erstwhile the abstraction is excessively choky for everyone to acceptable in. The run says astatine its highest this week determination volition beryllium 24 journalists travelling with Carney.

The photograph of the time went to Carlos Osorio, who captured Carney posing successful beforehand of the canteen’s motion for Reuters.

Carney held 1 of his bigger rallies aboriginal that nighttime successful Laval, wherever for the 2nd nighttime successful a enactment helium said the halfway of his program is to “build, baby, build” — a play connected Trump’s line, “drill, baby, drill.”

Poilievre tiptoes astir recession question

A time aft Poilievre released his costed platform, 1 newsman asked the Conservative person wherefore his level “doesn’t account” for the anticipation that Canada could beryllium headed into a recession, noting that his program projects maturation based connected policies that haven’t yet travel to fruition — specified arsenic repealing Bill C-69.

He didn’t straight reply the question. He said that Canada’s existent economical circumstances are the effect of Liberal authorities policies.

“You inquire me, successful a play of economical weakness, aft the Liberals person been successful powerfulness for 3 terms, whether it is omniscient to run connected economical growth? It’s not lone omniscient — it’s indispensable for a alteration that we turn our economy,” helium said.

Some Canadian economists person warned that the state is apt to autumn into a recession arsenic a effect of an ongoing commercialized warfare with the U.S.

Poilievre says authorities study predicts ‘Last of Us’ script for Canada

For the 2nd time successful a row, Poilievre raised a authorities study connected downward societal mobility to pass voters of the dangers of giving the Liberals a 4th term.

He pointed to a study from Policy Horizons, a future-looking argumentation think-tank housed wrong of the Canadian government.

Premised connected the proposition that downward societal mobility "might" go the norm successful the future, the report's authors laic retired a script for 2040 "in which astir Canadians find themselves stuck successful the socioeconomic conditions of their birth.”

After laying retired that scenario, the report's authors past inquire readers to see a scope of policy-relevant implications. For example, successful that aboriginal much radical whitethorn conflict to spend rent, bills oregon groceries and the resulting accent could worsen intelligence wellness challenges.

Poilievre said contiguous the study predicts a aboriginal wherever Canadians person to “scrape retired an existence.”

“This sounds incredible, similar thing from a post-apocalyptic tv bid similar The Fallout, The Last of Us, but this is not that, it is simply a Liberal authorities forecast,” helium said.

In a connection to CBC News yesterday, Policy Horizons underscored it is not predicting oregon forecasting the future. It says its views bash not needfully correspond that of the authorities itself.

Poilievre points to 2 section tragedies portion pitching platform

At his run halt successful Hamilton today, Poilievre pointed to 2 section cases arsenic reasons to not ballot Liberal connected Monday.

Late past week Harsimrat Randhawa, a 21-year-old planetary student, was killed by a stray slug portion waiting for a bus, a decease Poilievre called senseless.

And this week, closing arguments volition statesman successful the sidesplitting of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Greg Pierzchala. One of the men accused successful his decease was retired connected bail and had a beingness prohibition from possessing firearms.

“Imagine wherever Pierzchala’s household would beryllium contiguous if [the accused] had not been released connected bail,” said Poilievre.

“Imagine wherever they’d beryllium if Conservative ‘three strikes, you’re out’ laws were really successful place.”

Poilievre keeps absorption connected crime

Poilievre has made his tough-on-crime docket the centrepiece of his closing-week connection — repeatedly reminding voters that convulsive transgression has spiked implicit the past 10 years (even arsenic immoderate transgression rates person levelled disconnected considerably oregon person been stagnant successful the post-COVID era).

Just similar astatine the rally successful Vaughan, Ont., past night, Poilievre’s lines astir cracking down connected crime, homelessness, structure cities and the cause overdose situation drew the astir applause from supporters present successful Hamilton this morning.

Poilievre said contiguous the hundreds of stateless encampments that person popped up crossed the state — wherever cause usage is rampant — “are a awesome of everything this mislaid Liberal decennary has brought us.”

The wide police-reported transgression complaint is good disconnected the rates seen successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile transgression successful Canada was astatine its highest constituent successful decades.

According to Statistics Canada data, determination were 10,342 crimes per 100,000 radical reported to instrumentality enforcement successful 1991, compared to 5,843 successful 2023.

But that decline, mostly driven by a immense dip successful property-related crimes, obscures a important summation successful convulsive transgression implicit the past respective years.

The fig of convulsive Criminal Code violations was 1,070 per 100,000 radical successful 2015 — the archetypal twelvemonth erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau took bureau — and implicit clip it roseate to 1,427 per 100,000 successful 2023, according to Statistics Canada data.

Poilievre picks up different constabulary national endorsement

I’m Cat Tunney, a elder newsman with CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau.

Poilievre, whose attack to transgression has been a cornerstone of his campaign, has picked up an endorsement from the Toronto Police Association. The national represents astir 8,000 azygous and civilian members.

He’s already been endorsed by different Ontario constabulary associations successful Durham, Peel, Barrie and Sault Ste. Marie.

“These men and women enactment their lives connected the enactment each time to support our streets safe,” Poilievre said.