Global economic slowdown from tariffs starting to impact Canada, Carney says after cabinet meeting

Carney says tariffs already impacting Canadian economy

The premier minister, who is disconnected the run way today, conscionable spoke aft the gathering of his furniture committee connected Canada-U.S. relations and nationalist security.

He told reporters that tariffs are already having an interaction connected the Canadian economy. We’ll person much to accidental connected his remarks shortly.

Carney, who near the run way to convene the furniture committee meeting, didn’t instrumentality immoderate questions from media. It’s the 3rd clip helium has stopped campaigning to instrumentality to Parliament Hill.

Blanchet calls for borderline minister

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet wants the national authorities to make a borderline curate to oversee security.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) presently reports to the curate of nationalist information and exigency preparedness.

Speaking successful Montreal, Blanchet said that a national curate specifically dedicated to borderline power would amended accountability.

He besides took purpose astatine erstwhile migration curate Marc Miller.

“There are galore ministers whose lone reply to Parliament is that [the CBSA is] an agency, it’s independent,” Blanchet said successful French.

Blanchet said a caller borderline curate would marque idiosyncratic “personally responsible” if they don’t bash their occupation properly.

What’s connected today’s furniture committee gathering docket

Today’s gathering of the furniture committee connected Canada-U.S. relations and nationalist information volition absorption connected Chinese retaliation, fiscal markets and the Quebec border, sources told CBC News.

Border officials said earlier this week that determination has been a dependable summation since the commencement of the twelvemonth successful the fig of radical seeking asylum astatine Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle — a borderline crossing southbound of Montreal.

Asylum claims astatine that constituent of introduction reached a precocious of 1,356 applications successful March. For April, determination were 557 claims arsenic of Saturday.

The summation comes amid concerns that Trump medication policies could pb to a unreserved of crossings into Canada. It coincides with the looming expiration of the impermanent presumption of hundreds of thousands of migrants successful the United States.

Today’s canvass tracker update

Here are the latest polling numbers from CBC’s aggregated Poll Tracker, which is managed by TheWrit.ca’s Éric Grenier.

Here’s what Grenier had to accidental astir the provincial breakdown:

“The Liberals are precise comfortably starring successful Quebec and Atlantic Canada and person opened up a wide pb implicit the Conservatives successful Ontario. They are besides narrowly up successful British Columbia. The Conservatives pb successful Alberta and the Prairies,” helium wrote.

“The NDP's strongest enactment is successful B.C. and the Prairies, but adjacent determination the enactment is poised to endure important losses. The Bloc and Conservatives are warring for 2nd spot successful Quebec.”

First-time elector attended rallies for some Poilievre and Carney

I'm 1 of the reporters covering the Conservative campaign. I've been to Pierre Poilievre's rallies each week — successful B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

Many of the radical I spoke to astatine the rallies were Conservative supporters earlier coming.

But past night, I met 17-year-old Amour Baza, who volition crook 18 conscionable successful clip to ballot successful the national election.

Get this: yesterday, helium went to some the Poilievre rally successful Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., and the Mark Carney rally earlier successful Hamilton.

He told maine helium hasn't made his caput up yet astir who helium wants to ballot for, but helium wanted to marque an informed ballot — truthful helium decided helium would spell perceive straight from some leaders.

Baza said he's excited to beryllium portion of the antiauthoritarian process and wants to promote different young radical to bash their probe earlier casting their ballot.

In the video above, you tin perceive immoderate of our speech aft the Conservative rally past night.

If Poilievre’s announcement contiguous of a “Canada First Economic Action Plan” sounds familiar, that’s due to the fact that it hearkens backmost to the past clip the Conservatives were successful power.

The Stephen Harper government’s Economic Action Plan was its effect to the 2008 fiscal crisis. Starting successful January 2009, the authorities pumped stimulus into the system by backing infrastructure projects. You mightiness retrieve the ads promoting the program and signs popping up crossed the country.

Harper endorsed Poilievre astatine a rally earlier this week conscionable southbound of Edmonton.

As my colleagues person noted here, today’s announcement doesn’t see caller items. It’s a operation of galore of the party’s economical planks that the enactment says volition boost Canada’s economical enactment by a half-trillion dollars implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Poilievre asked astir run criticism

Good morning. I’m a elder shaper with the Parliamentary bureau’s integer team.

The Conservative run has travel nether sizeable occurrence from Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s run manager, Kory Teneycke, who renewed his criticisms yesterday, calling the party’s mislaid pb successful the polls “campaign malpractice astatine the highest level.”

Poilievre was asked astir this contiguous and brushed disconnected the question.

“No, I answered that question 2 weeks ago,” helium said, adding that “Liberals and lobbyists” privation him to halt talking astir precocious nutrient prices, doubling lodging costs, the opioid situation and “the mislaid Liberal decade.”

“We can’t spend a 4th Liberal term. We request a change.”

As of today, CBC's Poll Tracker shows the Conservatives way the Liberals by much than six points nationally — a melodramatic reversal from the 20-point pb they held conscionable a fewer months ago.

No laws ‘restricting’ termination access, says Poilievre

The Conservative person fielded a question astir Bas Sluijmers, a section Conservative campaigner successful St. Catharines, who was portion of an anti-abortion campaign. Sluijmers had talked astir an grounds that compared unborn fetuses to victims of genocide, specified arsenic the Holocaust.

Poilievre was asked if helium would tolerate a backstage member’s measure against termination being enactment guardant by a subordinate successful the House of Commons.

Poilievre said helium tin warrant each Canadians that determination are “no laws restricting termination passed portion I’m premier minister.”

He said that has been the presumption of the enactment for much than 20 years, 1 that was “adopted by our members and upheld astatine each our consequent conventions.”

“It volition besides beryllium reiterated explicitly successful my predetermination platform,” helium said. But helium didn’t reply whether helium would let a backstage member’s measure to beryllium enactment guardant connected the matter.

Poilievre re-ups his economical promises

The Conservative person re-upped immoderate of his antecedently announced economical plans today: lowering the taxation complaint for the lowest income bracket; removing the GST connected caller homes nether $1 cardinal and connected Canadian-made vehicles; offering incentives to municipalities to chopped backmost connected gathering charges; restoring the apprenticeship grant; and creating a tariff extortion money for workers successful the aluminum, alloy and car sectors.

Poilievre said these policies, combined with repealing what helium referred to arsenic “anti-resource” laws passed by the Liberal government, “have been calculated to boost our GDP by fractional a trillion dollars dispersed implicit the adjacent 5 years.”

He added that the calculations were made by Philip Cross, a erstwhile main economics expert astatine Statistics Canada, and Tim Sargent, a erstwhile manager astatine Finance Canada.

Poilievre promoting economical plan

Poilievre is unveiling his economical enactment program today, which the enactment says volition boost Canada’s economical enactment “by a full of a half-trillion dollars implicit the adjacent 5 years.”

The Conservative person is successful St. Catharines, Ont., wherever he’s expected to beforehand galore of the commitments helium has already announced.

Some known elements of his “Canada First Economic Action Plan” see scrapping concern c pricing, creating a “one-stop-shop” to fast-track approvals for assets projects and introducing a taxation chopped targeted astatine encouraging Canadians to reinvest their net successful the country.