Poilievre pushes crime crackdown in Saskatoon, Carney talks tariffs in SSM
Poilievre blazing path from Saskatoon to Vancouver Island, while Carney sticks to Ontario from the Soo to London
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OTTAWA — As election day looms on Monday, the two main contenders spent the last weekday of the campaign hustling for votes in friendly territory.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spent Friday on a whirlwind tour of western Canada, starting the day with a press conference in Saskatoon, followed by a whistle-stop in Calgary before ending the day in Nanoose Bay, a town on Vancouver Island just north of Nanaimo.
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“Change, change, change — this election comes down to one word, and that is change,” Poilievre said during his morning presser.
Poilievre outlined his plans for his first 100 days in office, should fortunes favour the Tories come Monday — centred around making life more affordable, making Canada safer, and putting Canadians to work.
“Canadians are asking the simple question: Can we really afford to allow Mark Carney have the fourth term of Justin Trudeau, raising exactly the same taxes, running exactly the same deficits, doubling exactly the same housing costs, with exactly the same Liberal team,” he said.
While the Tories concentrated on western Canada, Liberal Leader Mark Carney set his sights on Ontario.
Carney kicked off Friday with a press conference in Sault Ste. Marie, before heading south to Georgetown, followed by a meet-and-greet in Cambridge and ending the day with a rally in London.
One day after being caught lying about the content of his conversations with Donald Trump, Carney began his press conference by speaking about the U.S. president.
“The president’s latest comments are more proof, if we ever needed any, that the old relationship with the United States that we had is over,” Carney told reporters during a stop at Algoma Steel.
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“It’s a reminder, it’s a call to action, that we need to chart a new path.”
If elected, Carney announced his government would create a $2-billion “response fund” to boost the competitiveness of Canada’s auto sector, create an all-Canada auto manufacturing network, establish a made-in-Canada government procurement strategy, and make Canadian contractors a priority in defence procurement.
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