Canada election: Health care, home building on the agenda as campaign enters home stretch

NDP holding bigger events

I'm Marina von Stackelberg and I’m travelling with the NDP campaign. We're connected Vancouver Island today, wherever Singh's squad has gone hard, hitting galore ridings present during the agelong weekend.

This portion of the state is an NDP stronghold, truthful it is notable that Singh spent this overmuch clip campaigning this adjacent to the predetermination successful what are usually considered "safe" ridings. Many of these ridings could beryllium astatine risk.

But for a run that felt similar it had a sleepy start, I've noticed a renewed consciousness of momentum present successful B.C., with Singh's squad pushing harder with much and bigger events. Singh has progressively changed his messaging too, calling connected voters to support their enactment with the NDP to forestall electing Conservatives here, and to halt a Liberal majority.

Poilievre pitches home-building strategy

Poilievre returned to the all-important Greater Toronto Area contiguous to sing his campaign’s top hits, including his promises to get much homes built, if elected.

From a operation tract successful Scarborough, Ont., Poilievre promised to physique 2.3 cardinal caller homes implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Poilievre blamed the Liberals — including erstwhile lodging curate Sean Fraser, who archetypal said helium was leaving authorities but is moving again — for the lodging situation and suggested Carney’s lodging program won’t get Canadians into homes immoderate faster.

Poilievre reiterated his committedness to “unleash location building” by cutting the income taxes connected caller homes, lowering improvement charges and rewarding cities “that licence implicit 15 per cent much location building.”

Bloc leader, a Nordiques fan, buys a Habs jersey

I’m Raffy Boudjikanian, a elder newsman with CBC News covering the Bloc run this week.

"If the Bloc Québécois tin collaborate with Mark Carney, a instrumentality of the Nordiques similar maine tin propulsion a Canadiens jersey on," Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said, letting spell of the defunct Quebec City team's jersey earlier turning his attraction to an array of Montreal Canadiens jerseys connected the walls of Logo Sport, a sports store successful Quebec City.

Blanchet joked astir 3XL and 2XL being excessively wide for him earlier uncovering a size that was much suitable (which helium did not disclose to the cameras).

But adjacent arsenic elemental an lawsuit arsenic picking retired a jersey during the Stanley Cup playoffs tin beryllium a spot of an cognition during an predetermination campaign.

Before Blanchet arrived, a Bloc staffer took photos of antithetic jerseys and sent them to a workfellow who was with the leader.

Blanchet chose a classical reddish jersey.

The cashier told him he, too, is cheering for the Habs portion waiting for the Nordiques to return, 1 day.

"It's similar collaborating with Ottawa portion awaiting independence," Blanchet said arsenic helium paid up.

Today’s Poll Tracker update

Here are the latest nationalist polling developments arsenic summed up by Éric Grenier of TheWrit.ca. He is managing the CBC Poll Tracker passim the campaign.

“The Liberal pb successful nationalist polls has held steady, though it has slipped from astir six oregon 7 points to astir 5 points connected average,” Grenier wrote this morning.

“So far, it doesn't look that past week's debates shifted voting intentions capable to bump the Liberals retired of bulk territory arsenic the Conservatives person been incapable to interruption the Liberals' electorally decisive vantage successful Ontario. The Bloc Québécois and New Democrats stay connected way to endure important spot losses.”

Poilievre says Conservative level coming tomorrow

Hi there, I’m J.P. Tasker. I’m pursuing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for the last week of this predetermination campaign.

With lone days near successful the run — and much than 2 cardinal ballots already formed successful beforehand voting — Poilievre inactive hasn’t released a costed level (as Lucas noted, Carney and Singh enactment theirs retired implicit the weekend).

So I asked Poilievre today: Where’s the platform? What’s the holdup?

He’s been calling for an predetermination for 2 years — and he, dissimilar galore different absorption leaders successful the past, had a comparatively robust slate of argumentation proposals earlier this run adjacent began — and yet there’s inactive nary argumentation document.

Is it due to the fact that he’s having occupation making the mathematics work? After all, Poilievre is really pitching much generous taxation cuts and a pricier GST rebate for each caller homebuyers — measures that volition outgo much than what Carney is pitching for lodging terms relief.

Poilievre said the level volition beryllium released time and helium volition item what he’s going to chopped to wage for what he’s proposing, which besides includes a large subject buildup.

“Our attack is that each caller dollar of spending should beryllium met with savings,” Poilievre said.

He gave immoderate hints astir what’s going to get the axe: extracurricular consultants, the “wasteful” weapon buyback program, positive cuts to the bureaucracy and overseas assistance and defunding the CBC.

But he’s besides suggesting his assertive earthy resources docket — done a committedness to o.k. large lipid and state projects and pipelines — volition make $70 cardinal successful further revenue.

We’ll person to hold until time to spot however it each adds up.

Singh says Pope Francis showed satellite religion tin beryllium a unit for justice

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who is campaigning successful Nanaimo, B.C., contiguous and won’t beryllium speaking until 9 a.m. PT (noon ET), issued a connection connected the decease of Pope Francis, saying the pontiff "showed the satellite that religion tin beryllium a almighty unit for justice."

"He spoke plainly astir poverty, inequality and the clime situation — and helium challenged governmental and economical leaders to enactment radical earlier profits," Singh said.

"He didn't conscionable preach humility and compassion — helium lived it. And successful doing so, helium earned the respect of millions, including galore acold beyond the Catholic Church."

Singh called Pope Francis's apology to residential schoolhouse survivors successful 2022 a meaningful step, though helium acknowledged, “for galore survivors, this apology was not enough.”

‘If you ask, I’ll springiness you my number’

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was the impermanent connected the fashionable Radio-Canada speech amusement Tout le monde en parle Sunday night, wherever helium mentioned Carney gave him his cellphone fig aft past week’s debates.

Asked by a newsman why, Carney said, “Because I'm a bully guy.”

“He asked for it. I gave it to him. If you ask, I’ll springiness you my number,” helium said, apt stressing retired his unit (I'm definite journalists volition effort to instrumentality him up connected his offer).

Joking that Ontario Premier Doug Ford hands retired his cellphone number, Carney said helium hopes helium won’t get thousands of messages from Blanchet.

Poilievre offers solidarity to Catholics mourning nonaccomplishment of Pope Francis

Before diving into his announcement this greeting successful Scarborough, Ont., Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre archetypal offered condolences to Catholics connected the decease of Pope Francis.

“His relation is of people astatine the centre of the Catholic Church and determination person been countless millions of Catholics and non-Catholics that person been inspired by his enactment successful religion and different domains,” Poilievre said.

“Our prayers are with each Catholics arsenic they laic to remainder the caput of the Catholic Church and we are successful solidarity successful remembering him and honouring his contributions.”

Liberal, NDP platforms are out

If you didn’t get the accidental to travel run sum during the agelong weekend, determination were immoderate beauteous large developments connected Saturday: the Liberals and NDP some released their costed platforms.

The Liberals pledged astir $130 cardinal successful caller measures implicit the adjacent 4 years, including a antecedently announced 1 percent constituent simplification successful the lowest marginal taxation rate, taking it to 14 per cent from 15 per cent.

When combined with existing spending, the commitments volition adhd $225 cardinal to the national debt.

You tin work much astir the Liberal level here.

At the bosom of the NDP level is simply a committedness to rise astir $94.5 cardinal by taxing the highly wealthy, a program designed to assistance concern tens of billions successful caller spending, present a taxation chopped for workers and grow Canada's health-care system.

The NDP said those commitments volition adhd $48 cardinal to the national shortage implicit the adjacent 4 years connected apical of the existing deficit.

Learn much astir the NDP level here.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has yet to merchandise a costed platform, but did accidental it would beryllium coming “soon.”

Carney suggests Conservatives would ‘give the Americans what they want’

As the run enters its last stretch, Carney is laying retired immoderate of his last arguments to Canadians, including a nonstop onslaught connected Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. He took peculiar attraction contiguous to effort and gully a enactment successful voters' minds betwixt U.S. President Donald Trump’s medication and Canadian Conservatives.

“The Conservative person doesn't similar our program to basal up to President Trump. Neither bash Trump's allies present successful Canada. Perhaps it’s a coincidence,” said Carney.

“Let's beryllium charitable. Maybe they judge what they're saying. Perhaps they judge the mode to support ourselves is to permission each Canadian to fend for themself. Maybe they judge that we should ‘go on to get along’ — that the mode to get done this situation is to support our heads down, to springiness the Americans what they want, and anticipation for the best.”

Poilievre has maintained helium would ne'er fto Canada go the 51st state.