OTTAWA – The major party leaders are fanning out across the country today to various battlegrounds in the last few days of the election campaign.
The latest polls show the Liberals are starting to break away from the pack, and support for them continues to surge. They are now projected to win 142 seats, up 14 from the last projection just a few days ago.
But there’s no way to know whether voter turnout will be affected by Monday’s Blue Jays game, which some say may dissuade younger electors from voting and could benefit the Tories.
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NDP
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is in British Columbia, campaigning first in the new riding of Burnaby North-Seymour then holding a rally at the Vancouver Convention Centre, which is in the Vancouver Centre riding that has been held by Liberal Hedy Fry.
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Conservative Party of Canada
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper starts his day campaigning once again in Quebec, where the Tories are hoping to double their seat count from five to 10.
He is set to visit the new riding of Vimy in Laval, then he’ll head to the Conservative riding of Oakville, west of Toronto, finishing up with a rally in so-called Ford Nation.
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug have a strong base of support in their Toronto suburb of Etobicoke and though Doug Ford went so far as to say earlier this week he and his brother were organizing the rally, Harper has said the rally is organized by his party.
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Liberals
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau continues to target his opponents’ ridings. He started his day in the riding of Halifax, where NDP incumbent Megan Leslie is running again.
During the raucous campaign rally in Halifax, Trudeau urged supporters and campaign workers to redouble their efforts to ensure, in his words, that “no vote – and no voter – gets left behind.”
Trudeau will then hop over to Saint John-Rothesay in New Brunswick – a new riding but one where a Conservative incumbent is running.
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He’ll then head to northern Ontario, where he targets the NDP-held riding of Thunder Bay-Rainy River before wrapping up his day with a rally in Winnipeg.
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— With files from Global News
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