GM assembly plant in Ontario temporarily shutting down, affecting 500 jobs

Some grim quality for the car sector

GM’s CAMI Assembly works successful Ingersoll, Ont., volition beryllium temporarily shutting down, sources connected with the manufacture person told CBC’s David Cochrane.

The works volition beryllium unopen down successful May and enactment closed until astatine slightest October. When it reopens, it volition person conscionable 1 shift.

The nett effect is that 500 radical volition beryllium receiving layoff notices, Cochrane reports.

The quality was archetypal reported by CTV.

Singh takes purpose astatine Carney for Brookfield’s ties to taxation havens

Singh said helium worries Carney won’t ace down connected offshore taxation havens, amid caller reports that Brookfield Asset Management, which Carney chaired earlier moving for the Liberal Party, registered entities successful the Cayman Islands.

“There’s much grounds that Mark Carney has chosen to not lend to Canada erstwhile helium was managing these funds. And here’s different illustration successful the Cayman Islands,” Singh said.

Dodging a question astir whether helium believed that Carney is utilizing his relation arsenic premier curate to his vantage successful the mediate of the campaign, Singh said Carney should beryllium much transparent successful his decisions.

Singh said employment security should beryllium accrued to assistance Canadians marque ends meet. For immoderate workers, EI lone covers fractional of their salary, which is not capable for them to get by, helium said.

“People request to spot investments successful our wellness care. They request to spot protections for our workers. And that’s what New Democrats are going to combat for,” Singh said.

Singh says it’s champion ‘one enactment doesn’t person each the power’

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is urging Canadians to nonstop much New Democrats to Ottawa to clasp the aboriginal authorities to account. In caller days, he’s stopped saying that he’s moving for premier minister.

“Because radical voted for us, we were capable to clasp the authorities to account,” Singh told reporters contiguous successful Ottawa. He pointed to instances erstwhile the NDP pushed for the number Liberal authorities to proceed with societal programs similar dental attraction and pharmacare.

“In each of this, I deliberation Canadians cognize it’s champion [when] 1 enactment doesn’t person each the power,” helium said.

Singh was besides asked if the predetermination is over, and if he’s conceding that the Liberals volition win. According to CBC’s aggregated Poll Tracker, the NDP appears to beryllium connected way to suffer astir of its seats and the Liberal Party is poised to triumph a bulk government.

Singh didn’t answer, nor did helium accidental whether he’ll enactment connected arsenic NDP leader.

“I deliberation campaigns matter,” helium said. “I privation Canadians to cognize that your ballot does matter.”

‘Our halfway strategy is to fight’

Carney said members of the Canada-U.S. relations furniture committee had a “good agelong discussion” connected reactions from different countries to U.S. tariff policy. They besides discussed archetypal signs of slowing successful the planetary system and impacts connected the Canadian economy.

“We reviewed our effect to those [U.S.] tariffs. Our halfway strategy is to fight, to support and to build,” Carney said during his little remarks to media.

“We near instructions for officials to guarantee that the adjacent government, whichever authorities Canadians choose, volition beryllium successful the champion presumption for negotiations with the United States, which [U.S. President Donald Trump] and I person agreed volition beryllium from the commencement of May.”

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.