Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the savings would go toward his party's plans for a universal tax cut and various tax credits.

The Liberals all but flipped off the lights on Canada's Office of Religious Freedoms, voting Monday against a Tory motion to keep open the controversial post and saying that its stand alone status is over.

The Conservatives are promising to bring 10,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq if re-elected - despite refusing to say whether thousands of others from the war-torn region have already been resettled.

How the Paris shooting attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is impacting efforts lobbying Canada's government to remove a rarely-seen blasphemy law.