As the federal election campaign nears its end with less than a week to go before voting day, all federal party leaders are making their last pitches to Canadians on why they deserve their vote.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre unveiled his party’s costed platform in Vaughan, Ont., on Tuesday while the Liberals and NDP already released platforms over the weekend.
The platform showed plans to cut the annual deficit to $14.1 billion by 2028-2029 through reduced program spending (cutting nearly $9.8 billion by the same year) and increased revenue (projected to be up by almost $5.2 billion in 2028-2029).
Many of the platform’s central policy planks, such as cutting the federal industrial carbon tax and focusing on initiatives to build more homes, were previously announced.
Four days of advance polls closed yesterday, with Elections Canada reporting record turnout on the first day with more than two million people casting their vote.
Poilievre spent Monday in Toronto and announced a homebuilding plan, pledging to build 2.3 million homes over the next five years.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney started Monday in Charlottetown talking about his health-care plan and efforts to address Canada’s shortage of primary-care providers, and then campaigned in Truro, Nova Scotia and held a rally in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started his day in Nanaimo, B.C., where he promised to cover “essential medicines” by the end of the year in an expansion of pharmacare.
