Canada election: Poilievre says working seniors ‘should not be punished’ as he promises tax cut

Poilievre criticizes Carney implicit Bermuda taxation haven

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Poilievre is criticizing Carney implicit today’s study that the Liberal person co-chaired 2 concern funds registered successful Bermuda portion helium worked for Brookfield Asset Management.

“His company, nether his watch, enactment wealth successful Bermuda to debar paying Canadian taxes. All portion Liberals unit Canadians to wage higher taxes, Mark Carney dodges the measure himself. He thinks millionaires similar him shouldn’t person to pay,” Poilievre said.

The Conservative person besides claimed Carney is “hiding his assets successful overseas taxation havens.” To beryllium clear, it’s not known if those 2 funds had immoderate of Carney’s idiosyncratic assets.

Carney responded to the CBC/Radio-Canada communicative earlier contiguous and said the Canadian entities who person wealth from the funds wage the due taxes.

Working seniors ‘should not beryllium punished’

Here’s a recap of Poilievre’s elder taxation plan:

• Let moving seniors gain up to $34,000 taxation free.
• Let them support their savings successful RRSPs until property 73 (up from the existent bounds of property 71).
• Keep the status property astatine 65, which the enactment says would support outgo programs similar Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement and the Canada Pension Plan.

“No elder should ever beryllium forced to work. But those who take [to bash so] should not beryllium punished,” helium said, saying the existent benefits aren’t enough.

“They volition virtually prevention thousands of dollars they tin walk connected a bully abrogation oregon possibly spoil the grandkids conscionable a small spot more,” oregon wage disconnected the remainder of their mortgage, helium said.

Homebuilding ‘one of my apical priorities,’ says Poilievre

Poilievre is speaking from a Maisons Laprise plant. The institution builds pre-fabricated homes, and homebuilding is “one of my apical priorities,” says Poilievre, adding that helium wants to “reverse Liberal lodging hell.”

Poilievre says galore of the works workers are implicit 65, and that they walk connected their contented to younger employees. That plays into the Conservative’s argumentation transportation contiguous — a taxation chopped for moving seniors.

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Poilievre successful Conservative country

Poilievre is present speaking astatine the podium aft a delay. He ever begins successful French, truthful our livestream volition spell to him erstwhile helium switches to English.

He’s successful Côte-du-Sud-Rivière-du-Loup-Kataskomiq-Témiscouata, the archetypal Conservative-held riding he’s visited since the run kicked disconnected (barring the motorboat of his section run office).

The different locations he’s visited up to this constituent successful the run were successful Liberal-held ridings.

Ontario seniors measurement successful connected what matters to them

Good afternoon, I’m a elder newsman with CBC News. Today, I’m astatine the St. Thomas Seniors Centre successful southwestern Ontario.

Members present are enactment dancing to Shania Twain and talking astir the election.

Almost each of the seniors present hold this is the astir consequential predetermination of their lives. When asked why, they accidental it’s due to the fact that of the commercialized war, threats to Canada’s sovereignty and the affordability situation they accidental galore seniors are feeling.

Everyone here, they archer me, knows idiosyncratic who is reliant connected nutrient banks, struggling to marque ends conscionable oregon moving arsenic a store greeter to get by good into retirement.

Most of the seniors present accidental they are paying adjacent attraction to the enactment platforms and what is being pledged — particularly astir increases to Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement — and that each small spot helps.

One retiree told maine she isn’t arsenic focused connected “seniors’ issues” arsenic she is connected what this predetermination means for the aboriginal of her children and grandchildren and this country’s survival.

Food banks, lodging costs and the election

Hi, I study unrecorded connected CBC News Network. Today, I’m connected determination astatine the Parkdale Community Food Bank, 1 of galore nutrient banks successful Toronto that is serving a increasing fig of clients.

This 1 serves much than 13,000 radical a month. Executive manager Kitty Raman-Costa says the request for nutrient banks is tied to the outgo of housing, which is apical of caput for galore voters successful this national election.

She says galore clients walk astir oregon each of their income connected rent, with small oregon thing near implicit to bargain nutrient oregon different necessities.

"We request options for assemblage members for rent geared to income. Truly affordable lodging is 1 of the astir important things for us," said Raman-Costa.

I met a pistillate named Rosemarie Legault, a dedicated unpaid and besides a client. She shares a one-bedroom flat with her spouse and teenage daughter.

“Our girl has the bedroom. We slumber successful the surviving room. It’s precise hard. We person to agelong each dollar. Housing is precise overmuch needed successful the area,” she told me.

Renting a two-bedroom flat is retired of scope for Legault — they can’t spend it. I met different young antheral successful the neighbourhood named Ethan Pon who can’t spend immoderate rent astatine all.

"I inactive unrecorded with my parents," helium said, explaining that he's connected the hunt for a good-paying job. "It's hard to get a occupation here."

Poilievre announcement delayed

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Blanchet makes lemonade of Carney’s Quebec lemons

You can’t accidental Yves-François Blanchet doesn’t person a consciousness of humour.

The Bloc Québécois person took a changeable astatine Carney this greeting by holding an quality astatine Montreal’s MELS Studio, wherever backstage web TVA’s French-language statement would person been held, if Carney hadn’t declined to participate.

Blanchet besides chastised the Liberal person for mistakenly saying yesterday that the 1989 École Polytechnic massacre happened astatine Concordia University and misnaming Polytechnic subsister and Liberal campaigner Nathalie Provost.

Blanchet is seizing connected the Liberal leader’s Quebec-related blunders, according to my workfellow Raffy Boudjikanian, who is covering the Bloc Quebecois connected the run trail.

“These are each points that [Blanchet] wants to support live successful this campaign, due to the fact that helium wants to usage them to amusement himself to beryllium the large defender of Quebec civilization and practice and history,” said Boudjikanian.