Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday released his party’s election platform, a day after millions of Canadians have already voted in the advanced polls and with less than one week until Election Day.
The Conservative plan comes after the Liberals and the NDP both released their platforms over the weekend.
The Tory platform promises to cut the deficit “by 70%” while simultaneously lowering income taxes by 15 per cent.
Poilievre said a Conservative government would cut the deficit “with less spending on bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid, and handouts to insiders and special interests, while boosting growth with resource jobs.”
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“Canadians have been pinching their pennies long enough. It’s time for government to start pinching pennies,” Poilievre said.
Four days of advance polls closed Monday, with Elections Canada reporting record turnout on the first day with more than two million people casting their vote.
Poilievre spent Monday in Toronto and announced a homebuilding plan, pledging to build 2.3 million homes over the next five years.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney started Monday in Charlottetown talking about his health-care plan and efforts to address Canada’s shortage of primary-care providers, and then campaigned in Truro, Nova Scotia and held a rally in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started his day in Nanaimo, B.C., where he promised to cover “essential medicines” by the end of the year in an expansion of pharmacare.
–with files from Canadian Press
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