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The Polls

Liberal lead over Conservatives holding (CBC Poll Tracker – April 7, 2025)

  • Liberals 43.9% / Conservatives 37.2%  / NDP 8.6% / BQ 5.2% / Green 2.5% / PPC 2%

A three-day rolling sample by Nanos Research ending April 6 has the Liberals at 42.8% over the Conservatives who are at 37.7% nationally. The NDP remain 7.9% —a new low for the party—followed by the Bloc Quebecois at 6.7%, Green Party at 2.8% and the People’s Party at 1.6%.

A national Ipsos poll released Sunday shows 46% of Canadians surveyed would cast their ballots for the Liberals, up two points from last week. The Conservatives, by contrast, fell four points to 34% support among polled voters, a 12 point gap. (Global News)

Most polls in Quebec show the Liberals holding a double-digit lead over the Bloc Québécois, while the BQ and Conservatives battle it out for a distant second (338Canada.com)

On The Campaign Trail

Mark Carney lays out plan to help economy along amid Trump-induced market chaos, pledges to protect retirement savings

 

Ruth Ellen Brosseau eyes a return to Parliament Hill, will run for NDP in Quebec riding of Berthier-Maskinongé

  • Brosseau first garnered national attention in 2011 when she flew to Las Vegas during the election campaign to celebrate her 27th birthday.
  • She had never set foot in her riding before becoming its MP (CBC)

Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative politician who had lost a 25-point lead when Trump showed up on the scene and threatened to annex Canada (NYT)

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s record on Indigenous rights is concerning

  • In an election ad, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to a bust of John A. Macdonald about the importance of developing national projects like the Canadian Pacific Railway. “What do you think, prime minister? Could you get the railway built today?” Poilievre asks the bust. It’s only the most recent way Poilievre has expressed his admiration for Canada’s first prime minister — the man who got the railway built, but did it by displacing Indigenous Peoples using starvation and detention, and who also was a key proponent of the residential school system. (CBC)

Ex-Conservative candidate says party removed him over past podcast comments

  • Lourence Singh, a former Conservative candidate in the Metro Vancouver riding of New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville, spoke out Sunday for the first time since his removal, saying he was dismissed after a nine-minute phone call with a party official on April 1. (CBC)

Anaida Poilievre has taken on an ‘outsized role’ in her husband’s failing campaign

  • At a recent campaign event in North York, Ont., Pierre Poilievre had just left the podium after answering a media question about an underfunded francophone school when his wife Anaida approached him. The Conservative leader promptly returned to the podium, saying that his wife had just reminded him to make the point that Liberal Leader Mark Carney does not have an official languages minister. It wasn’t the first time she’d given her husband some quick advice while still on stage, including reminding him to acknowledge someone in the crowd, for example. But perhaps it’s indicative of the significant role Anaida Poilievre has been playing in the campaign as an effective booster of her husband, a potential softener of his image — but also a key political adviser. “She certainly is a savvy political operator in her own right,” said Conservative strategist Amanda Galbraith. “She’s not just there for the photo ops.” (CBC)

In disaster-stricken Okanagan, a conspicuous silence from the Conservative’s Poilievre

  • Extreme weather has hit this region harder in the past five years than almost anywhere else in Canada. Last year, an unprecedented January cold snap obliterated the entire wine-grape harvest and some 90 per cent of the stone-fruit crop. That deep freeze came between worsening summer droughts that have sparked a chronic rise in pest infestations now hammering all manner of crops. Then there are the wildfires: “smoke taint” ruined up to 30 per cent of the wine produced here in 2021, and is now a perennial threat.These are the kind of economic disasters Conservatives are supposed to be attuned to. (National Observer)

NDP focus on rent control as Conservatives tackle addictions treatment

  • NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in Halifax that his party would tie federal housing funding for provinces and municipalities to tenant protection policies like rent control.
  • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, campaigning in British Columbia, said that he has a plan to tackle drug addiction in Canada. (CP)

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