Canada’s federal leaders have hit the homestretch of the election with nine days of campaigning to go.
Saturday brings another day of campaigning and advance polls, with eligible voters being able to cast their ballot between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. local time.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to release a fully costed platform on Saturday.
The Bloc Québécois became the first party to release its costed platform on Friday, publishing a document that promised $133 billion in new federal spending over five years.
The main items include $22 billion for a wage subsidy related to the trade war with the United States, and a $15 billion fund for public transit.
The Bloc only runs candidates in Quebec and cannot form the government so, the promises made are things the party could push whoever wins the election to do but couldn’t enact on its own.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party’s full, costed platform will come “very soon,” but on Friday, he unveiled his party’s Quebec platform. The document puts a more regional focus on NDP policy planks, such as plans for an east-west clean electricity power grid, and argues Quebec could sell its hydroelectricity to the rest of Canada.
The Conservative Party is expected to release its fully costed platform in the “coming days.”
