Original Publish Date » April 4 , 2025
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The Polls

Liberals open up a 10-point lead over Conservatives, according to Nanos Research

  • Liberals 44.7% / Conservatives 36.6% / NDP 10.1% / BQ 5.6% / Green 1.6% / PPC 1.3 %
  • The Liberals have also increased their lead to 15 points in Ontario, with 51% of those surveyed choosing them over the Conservatives, who have fallen a point since yesterday to 36%.
  • The Liberals have increased their lead in Quebec to 54%, while the Conservatives are down to 17%.
  • The Liberals also continue to lead in every region except the Prairies, where the Conservatives continue to dominate, with 60% of those surveyed backing them – versus 25% for the Liberals.

Liberal lead over Conservatives holds according to the CBC Poll Tracker

  • Liberals 43.6% / Conservatives 37.7% / NDP 8.2% / BQ 5.5% / Green 2.3 / PPC 2.0%

CBC Poll Tracker says the Liberals are leading the Conservatives by roughly six points nationwide and would be heavily favoured to win a majority government if an election were held today. The New Democrats and Bloc Québécois, struggling to make headway in the polls, are on track to suffer significant seat losses.

On The Campaign Trail

Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced in Montréal today that he would increase annual funding to CBC/Radio-Canada by $150 million. He would also modernize the public broadcaster’s mandate, push for more transparency, and expand more local stations. (CBC)

  • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly promised to defund the national public broadcaster
  • Today, Poilievre was asked about Carney’s announcement of additional funding for the CBC/Radio-Canada. Poilievre answered, “We can’t go on spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need,” said Poilievre.“I will be cutting waste, bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid, and other unnecessary expenses to reduce taxes, debt, and inflation.”

Conservatives drop another candidate, Simon Payette, the fifth this week

  • Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out “shameful” comments by a now-dropped Conservative candidate, Simon Payette, who accused her of playing the “victim game” in her quest for stronger gun regulations. Provost, who survived being shot in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre and who was awarded the Governor General’s Medal of Bravery for attempting to dissuade the shooter, says she was left speechless by some of the comments that tarnish the memory of her classmates subject to the worst mass-murder of women in Canadian history. (CP) 

Poilievre’s bid to woo the union vote is hitting snags

  • Labour groups say the Conservatives support anti-worker policies and would cut public spending on programs like health care and employment insurance as workers struggle with economic uncertainty. (The Tyee)

With falling polling numbers, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre moves closer to the Liberal policies, now supports keeping the Liberal government’s 3% digital services tax on tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, one of Trump’s trade irritants (Toronto Star)

Western NDP candidates focus on their ground game — scrambling to keep their seats

  • Seat projections suggest the NDP caucus could be cut by half as voters look to support the Liberals (CBC)

What Canadians learned from Radio-Canada’s ‘Cinq chefs’ party leader interviews.

  • French-speaking Canadians got a first taste of how the five main federal party leaders defend their platforms beyond U.S. tariff threats in the span of two hours Thursday night on Radio-Canada’s Cinq chefs, une élection program. (CBC)

The Liberals have revoked the candidacy of Edmonton-area candidate Rod Loyola

  • After the National Post asked about a video in which he praised the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah at a 2009 anti-NATO protest. (NP)

» The regional chief for British Columbia is calling on the Conservative Party to drop another candidate

  • In posts on Twitter/X between 2019 and 2021, Aaron Gunn — the Conservative candidate in North Island-Powell River in British Columbia — has said Canada’s program of residential schools did not constitute an act of genocide and that the schools are “much-maligned.” Gunn said “residential schools were asked for by Indigenous bands.” “There was no genocide. Stop lying to people and read a book,” Gunn wrote in 2020.  (CP)
  • In a statement, the Conservative Party said: “Aaron Gunn has been clear in recognizing the truly horrific events that transpired in residential schools, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is simply false.” (CBC)