Liberals, NDP release costed campaign platforms as advance voting continues
By Canadian Press on April 19, 2025.
OTTAWA — The Liberals and NDP released their costed campaign platforms Saturday, with just over one week left in the election campaign.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney rolled out the party’s campaign commitments in Whitby, Ont., one of several battleground ridings in the seat-rich Greater Toronto Area.
The platform pledges billions in new spending and charts a major change in priorities from the party’s 2021 platform under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
The 65-page document shows a reversal in the proportion of operating and capital spending within the government as Carney eyes attracting and stimulating private-sector investment amid the global economic crisis prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The documents come after advance voting began Friday, with voters packing polling stations across the country.
Carney will focus his campaign on southern Ontario Saturday, making a whistle stop in Newcastle before holding a rally in Peterborough. The Liberals are trying to unseat incumbent Conservative Michelle Ferreri in the Peterborough riding.
Ferrari won in 2021 by several thousand votes but polls have suggested a closer contest this time. A third party group registered with Elections Canada to try and unseat Ferreri, under the name No More MP Ferreri.
The other two main party leaders are just outside Vancouver, with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh releasing his platform in Burnaby, B.C., and then heading to a rally in Victoria.
The NDP platform promises a wealth tax on “super-rich millionaires” the party says would generate more than $22 billion a year, as well as $7 billion for mental health coverage.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slated to hold a news conference in Richmond, B.C.
Advance polls continue today through Monday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. local time.
— with files from Craig Lord and Kyle Duggan in Ottawa and Catherine Morrison in Whitby, Ont.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 19, 2025.
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
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That’s a laugher. Singh standing beside a guy who utilizes tax havens to avoid taxes in Canada and telling him, Carney, he is going to tax him. Carney and the ultra rich are way ahead of Singh, they have already moved their money. Can’t make this BS up.
Singh now says he will build an east west energy corridor, so he along with Carney has stolen that idea from Poilievre as well . . . It is also funny that Singh was part of the push in BC to shutdown pipelines and oil/gas facilities with this affiliation with the non-profit groups against fossil fuels . . . the same group that saw one of its high ranking members become Mayor of Vancouver back then!
Now Singh wants pipelines? I doubt it!
I will be happy when this gong show is over!
It is laughable that Carney thinks he can bring back the massive home building projects we saw after WW II. The workers back then didn’t have to have the the trade tickets needed today, many were veterans looking for jobs, they didn’t have the permit procurements, and all the other roadblocks building homes in today’s world.
There are job shortages in every industry . . . where is he going to find all the ‘qualified’ workers to build, to work in supply and government inspector positions?
False hope! There just are not enough trained trades people to make his pipe dream successful!