Conservatives, NDP set their sights on Liberal campaign

One of the other findings of the poll was that support for the Trudeau Liberals is strongest in southern Alberta, where they garnered 27 per cent support, compared with 47 for the Conservatives and 17 per cent for the NDP.

Heightened interest in advance voting, however, doesn’t necessarily translate into an overall increase in the proportion of voters who cast a ballot. So, EI premiums won’t be going “up” by that amount, they just won’t go down as much as under the Conservative promise.

Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has weakened Canada’s environmental laws and global climate commitments in his quest to turn the Great White North into an energy superpower.

Mulcair told his supporters in Maple Ridge, B.C. that his party was the only credible choice for beating the Conservatives on October 19.

There, Trudeau announced a Liberal government’s first act would be to cut taxes for Canadians with incomes between $44,700 and $89,401, presumably, those who fit the Liberals’ definition of the oft-referenced middle class. The same piece of legislation would increase taxes for the wealthiest one per cent of Canadians, those making more than $200,000 a year, by introducing a new 33 per cent tax bracket for them.

The prime minister had a similar game show style announcement a day earlier that focused on what a Trudeau government would cost families.

Since election rules say no campaigning is allowed at polling stations, the Conservative bus – emblazoned with logos, party slogans and Harper’s giant face – had to stay parked. Under the circumstances, the last thing we should be doing is discouraging people from saving for their retirement.

“Under a Liberal government, the annual amount that a business owner has to contribute to employment insurance for his employees would go up by about $560”, Harper claimed as Dino started laying out his money. 

With polls suggesting a possible Liberal minority government, the NDP leader faced renewed questions Tuesday about the extent he was prepared to go to work with other parties.

Tom Mulcair says Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is going along with what the NDP leader calls Stephen Harper’s job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, telling voters he’s the only one who can ensure a better agreement for Canadian workers.

Harper is visiting the highly-symbolic Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, where former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff lost his seat in the 2011 campaign en route to the worst Liberal electoral drubbing in party history. Trudeau fils would, at best, rescue a few of the furniture – sauver les meubles, as we say – to save his party from total humiliation.

Nevertheless, Harper has managed to keep the Conservatives in contention throughout the marathon election campaign, with polls suggesting they’re running just ahead or just behind the Liberals.

The Ipsos numbers are a close match to an Ekos Politics survey that shows the Liberals are in front with 36 per cent support, followed by the Conservatives at 31 per cent. The NDP is in a distant third with 21 per cent.

Trudeau didn’t elaborate on Harper’s alleged interference.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe has eight stops on his schedule today, including three in Repentigny, Que.