Where are the five federal party leaders heading into the third day of the election campaign?

By: Jonathan Innocente

The five Federal Party leaders continue traveling to different cities to speak to the media and answer questions regarding their election campaigns. All of the federal party leaders have discussed several different topics during the first full day focusing on the election campaign. These topics included taxes, trades, tariffs, and skill trades.

Liberal party leader Mark Carney, will be visiting Halifax for an important announcement and media availability that will eventually take him to Dartmouth and Elmsdale, Nova Scotia. Carney is starting his campaign with the goal of cutting the tax rate one-point cut to the middle-class people of Canada. The Liberals say that more than twenty-two million Canadians will be able to benefit from this tax cut, those benefiting are the middle to low-income Canadians would benefit the most. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre disagreed with the tax cut from Carney saying that “this cut will would save the average Canadian nine-hundred dollars a year”.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be having another day in the GTA with a media availability in Vaughan, ON starting. This comes as Poilievre is promising a 2.25 percent point income tax cut that he said would save a dual-income family $1,800 per year. Poilievre says that he would immediately drop the lowest income tax bracket from 15 to 12.75 percent.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will be in Toronto with an announcement and media availability at the Glad Day Workshop. Meanwhile, Singh will be having a couple of different events with union leaders later today. The NDP leader has scheduled an event in Hamilton that opens the campaign office for local candidates. As far as Singh is the NDP leader, his government would use federal Crown land to build more than 100,000 homes controlled by rent for the next ten years. The housing pledge implemented by the NDP government includes a promise to ease more people into the skilled trades.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet will start his day by visiting Neuville, Que, with media availability. Blanchet will then hold a news conference and a late rally in  Trois-Rivieres and Becanour later this afternoon.

Green party leaders Jonathan Pedneault and Elizabeth May will be travelling to Vancouver Island and Montreal. May is currently travelling by BC Ferries to her home riding of Saanich Gulf Islands, where she is expected to join supporters for a sign wave and canvassing later this afternoon. Pedneault, however, will campaign with supporters in his riding of Outremont.

The Liberals are currently holding a six-point lead. A Leger poll, conducted for the Canadian Press suggests that the Liberals are increasing their lead over the Conservatives. The poll suggested that forty-four percent of voters will vote Liberal in the upcoming election, while thirty-eight percent of voters are expected to vote Conservative. The Leger poll was conducted over the weekend and saw a two-point increase for the Liberals and a one-point drop for the Conservatives since last week.