The economy, housing, pipelines: Not all claims in the federal election campaign were true

In an predetermination run plagued by misinformation, exaggerated claims and adjacent lies, however tin voters tell what's true?

CBC's Election Fact Check Unit has looked into dozens of statements made by the leaders of the 4 largest national parties. It recovered that each of the leaders — immoderate much than others — has at times made statements oregon cited facts that were either retired of date, misleading oregon conscionable plain false.

Here's an overview of a fewer of the things each person said connected the run way that didn't rather walk the odor test.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney

Financial situation of 2008-09

The claim: On April 3, Carney told reporters connected Parliament Hill that successful 2008-09, erstwhile helium was politician of the Bank of Canada, the country avoided a recession.

The facts: It didn't. Canada did upwind the situation amended than the United States, but its gross home product dropped for 3 consecutive quarters during that play — constituting a recession. Carney acknowledged this successful February 2009, erstwhile helium testified earlier the House of Commons concern committee.

"The planetary downturn and the declining request for our exports volition marque this a precise hard twelvemonth for Canada's economy," Carney told members of Parliament. "We are present successful recession, with GDP projected to autumn by 1.2 per cent this year."

Auto sector

The claim: On March 26, Carney told reporters that motor-vehicle manufacturing was Canada's second-largest export, providing 125,000 nonstop and astir 500,000 indirect jobs.

The facts: The numbers Carney cited were retired of date. According to Statistics Canada, motor-vehicle manufacturing was Canada's third-largest export successful 2024 and accounted for 138,520 nonstop jobs.

Foreign aid

The claim: On March 23, the time helium launched the predetermination campaign, Carney accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of readying to destruct overseas aid.

The facts: Poilievre has said determination would beryllium "massive" cuts successful overseas assistance due to the fact that helium believes excessively overmuch Canadian authorities wealth is going to dictators, violent groups and planetary bureaucracies. However, helium has not said that a Conservative authorities would wholly destruct overseas aid.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

Policy Horizons report

The claim: In the last week of the campaign, Poilievre has often talked astir a January 2025 study connected societal mobility successful 2040 prepared by Policy Horizons, a think-tank wrong Employment and Social Development Canada. The study paints a bleak representation of Canada's imaginable future. Poilievre has portrayed the study arsenic containing predictions and scenarios resulting from Liberal authorities policies successful caller years.

The facts: While the study looks astatine imaginable scenarios for Canada successful 2040, it doesn't marque predictions. The study besides includes a disclaimer saying that it "does not needfully correspond the views of the Government of Canada."

Liberal platform

The claim: Over the past week, ever since the Liberal Party released its platform, Poilievre has said repeatedly that the Liberal Party's level was drafted for erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau and that the enactment simply switched Carney's sanction for Trudeau's.

The facts: Poilievre bases his connection connected an April 20 interrogation connected CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, wherever a panellist said Liberal MP Mona Fortier had been moving connected the level for months, good earlier Carney became leader.

The Liberal Party says that though Fortier was consulting enactment members, advocates and experts portion Trudeau was inactive premier minister, the enactment lone began drafting the level aft Trudeau announced helium would resign. A 2nd Liberal says Carney and a squad of advisers began moving connected the level successful January, portion Carney was moving to beryllium Liberal leader.

Bill C-69

The claim: On societal media and during some the English and French debates, Poilievre has said that the Liberals' Bill C-69, which allowed the national authorities to look astatine the interaction that assets improvement projects could person connected clime change, blocked 16 projects and billions of dollars of investment.

The facts: Many of the projects Poilievre points to were cancelled anterior to the measure receiving royal assent successful June 2019, oregon were halted by provincial governments. In the lawsuit of different projects, specified as the Energy East pipeline, companies pulled the plug aft concluding that economical conditions had changed and the projects were nary longer viable.

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh

Housing Accelerator Fund

The claim: On April 7, Singh pledged to treble the Housing Accelerator Fund, a national programme for municipalities and Indigenous governments, and marque it permanent. "The Liberal program close present is to support the Housing Accelerator Fund temporary. They're not going to marque it permanent," helium told reporters.

The facts: The Housing Accelerator Fund was a Liberal run committedness successful the 2021 election. The Trudeau authorities followed up by including the program in its 2022 fund and past launched the money successful 2023. The $4 cardinal money is presently scheduled to tally until 2026-27, and its extremity is to assistance physique 100,000 caller homes.

On March 31, a week earlier Singh made his statement, Carney unveiled the Liberal Party's program to summation the fig of homes built successful Canada, including boosting the Housing Accelerator Fund. "My authorities volition not conscionable support it, we volition reenforce it, including by publically reporting connected municipalities' advancement to velocity up permitting and support timelines."

Houses built

The claim: During the French-language debate, Singh accused Poilievre of gathering lone six houses erstwhile helium was curate liable for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) successful 2015.

The facts: While the CMHC did physique lone six non-profit oregon assemblage lodging units during that time, it besides partnered with backstage companies successful projects that built 3,742 non-profit homes arsenic good arsenic 506 co-ops, for a full of much than 4,000 homes. During the debate, however, Poilievre responded that helium got 200,000 homes built portion helium was minister. That is besides inaccurate. In 2015 astir 200,000 homes were built crossed Canada, but the immense bulk were built by backstage companies — not the government.

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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet

Border crossings

The claim: On April 10, Blanchet told a quality league that nonrecreational human-smuggling networks had begun advertizing packages that included a harmless spot successful Canada to enactment for 2 weeks.

The facts: Under the Safe Third Country Agreement betwixt Canada and the United States, exile claimants who effort to participate Canada from the U.S. are turned backmost astatine the borderline unless they suffice for an exemption. In 2022, the 2 countries signed an further protocol that includes a proviso that allows idiosyncratic who has been successful the U.S. to marque an asylum assertion successful Canada without being turned backmost if they person been successful the state for astatine slightest 14 days.

Asked by CBC News for the root of Blanchet's claim, the Bloc pointed to a December 2024 Radio-Canada communicative astir irregular borderline crossings that mentions that "different networks" were helping exile claimants who marque it to Canada from the U.S. to fell for 2 weeks. However, the nonfiction does not notation to professional, for-profit, human-smuggling organizations, and the networks could see well-meaning volunteers oregon groups.

Pipelines

The claim: In some the English and French debates, Blanchet accused Carney of saying 1 happening successful Quebec and different happening successful the remainder of Canada, and said the Liberal leader was prepared to unit lipid and state pipelines done Quebec, against the volition of Quebecers.

The facts: While Carney's connection connected pipelines has shifted astatine assorted times, helium has not said that helium would unit pipelines done Quebec against its will.

In a code successful February successful British Columbia, Carney said helium would usage national authorities powers to physique a commercialized corridor, clean-energy projects and vigor infrastructure. He past told the CBC that helium would accelerate approvals for pipelines successful consultation with provinces and First Nations. A fewer days later, helium told Radio-Canada that helium would ne'er enforce a pipeline connected Quebec.

In April, erstwhile helium appeared connected the fashionable Radio-Canada tv amusement Tout le monde en parle, Carney said the authorities would take a fewer large projects and that those projects would request societal acceptance. "Not needfully pipelines, but possibly pipelines," helium said. "We'll see."