Federal NDP, Liberal leaders push votes in Winnipeg with 4 days until Canadians head to polls

Darren Bernhardt · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 24, 2025 2:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Two national enactment leaders are making instrumentality pit stops to Winnipeg successful different bid for enactment successful the last days of the predetermination campaign, arsenic caller polls suggest the borderline betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives continues to tighten.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, whose enactment is astatine hazard of losing authoritative status, gathered with supporters beside the Union Centre downtown to transportation the New Democrats arsenic the lone ones who volition people the priorities of middle-class families and workers.

He besides attacked U.S. tariffs arsenic "a monolithic menace to mundane Canadians who are disquieted astir losing their job and the outgo of things getting much expensive."

A beardown NDP presence successful Ottawa "will combat for you" and not for "the involvement of millionaires oregon affluent CEOs," helium said.

"The lone ones you tin spot to combat backmost and support your interests are New Democrats."

The NDP presently has 2 seats successful Winnipeg — Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) and Leila Dance (Elmwood-Transcona) — but polling steadfast Probe Research said Thursday that its enactment suggests the party has been trailing the Liberals and Conservatives successful the city.

The NDP's lone different spot successful Manitoba is Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, wherever New Democrat Niki Ashton is moving again. She's moving against Liberal Rebecca Chartrand, Conservative Lachlan De Nardi and People's Party of Canada candidate Dylan Young.

"These 3 New Democrats delivered acold much than each the Conservative MPs successful this state combined," Singh told reporters, citing the caller dental attraction programme and the completion of a pharmacare statement with Manitoba successful February that volition spot Ottawa wage for diabetes medicine and contraceptives.

Singh was bookended at the podium by Gazan and Dance, whose seats are typically NDP strongholds, though Dance has lone represented hers for 7 months.

Gazan is moving against Liberal Rahul Walia, Conservative Tom Bambrick, Green Gary Gervais, People's Party of Canada campaigner Donald Grant and Animal Protection Party of Canada campaigner Debra Wall. Running against Dance successful Elmwood-Transcona are Conservative Colin Reynolds, Liberal Ian MacIntyre, Green Nicolas Geddert and People's Party of Canada campaigner Collin Watson.

She won a September 2024 byelection aft the spot was vacated by Daniel Blaikie, who resigned earlier successful the twelvemonth to instrumentality an advising relation with the provincial NDP government. He held Elmwood-Transcona for astir a decade, and his precocious begetter Bill was the country MP for astir 30 years earlier that.

The Probe poll, done for the Winnipeg Free Press, surveyed a typical illustration of 800 Manitoba adults online from April 8-14. Because it wasn't a random illustration of voters, nary borderline of mistake tin beryllium fixed to it, but a random canvass of that size would person a borderline of mistake of positive oregon minus 3.5 percent points, 19 times retired of 20.

It suggests Mark Carney and the Liberals are viewed arsenic best-suited to code Canada-U.S. relations and the economy, but Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are seen arsenic champion capable to grip pocketbook issues, nationalist information and taxation.

However, it besides suggests NDP enactment successful Manitoba has rebounded implicit the past fewer weeks — from a debased of 9 per cent successful March to 15 per cent contiguous — and the enactment "may beryllium successful a stronger presumption to support its 3 seats successful the province."

Singh said wellness care, biology regulations, labour and pact rights indispensable beryllium kept disconnected the array erstwhile caller commercialized talks statesman with Washington. 

He said the NDP volition combat to support these interests erstwhile commercialized negotiations betwixt the caller authorities and U.S. President Donald Trump's medication statesman soon aft Monday's election.

"Labour rights volition ne'er beryllium connected the table. We bash not privation to go Americanized."

The Liberals proceed to clasp a flimsy borderline implicit the Conservatives successful Manitoba, the Probe canvass suggests.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is besides expected to marque his 2nd sojourn to the metropolis connected Thursday successful an effort to clasp onto that lead.

A rally is planned for the aboriginal evening astatine the Pyramid Cabaret, with Carney scheduled to present remarks alongside section candidates.