Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 13

Welcome to Day 13 of Canada Minute’s 2025 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2025 Canadian federal election now finally underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

Campaign Roundup - Day 13:

• Liberal Leader Mark Carney has pledged an initial $150 million annual funding increase for CBC/Radio-Canada and plans to make its funding statutory, requiring full parliamentary approval for any changes. He said the public broadcaster is underfunded compared to counterparts in the UK, France, and Germany and emphasized strengthening local news and emergency information.
  
  
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh also expressed strong support for significantly investing in CBC/Radio-Canada, emphasizing its role in combating misinformation and defending Canadian democracy and sovereignty. He highlighted the broadcaster’s importance in celebrating Canadian and Quebec culture.
  
  
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that his approach would not have an impact on Radio-Canada. He stressed saving Canadians money overall by cutting waste, consultants, bureaucracy, and foreign aid.
  
  
• Poilievre pledged to toughen penalties for intimate partner violence, including creating a new criminal offence, enforcing stricter bail conditions with GPS monitoring, and treating the murder of a partner or child as first-degree murder.
  
  
• Singh promised to crack down on corporate tax avoidance by closing offshore loopholes, ending tax agreements with countries like Bermuda, and enforcing public financial reporting. He criticized Liberal Leader Mark Carney for his past role at Brookfield Asset Management, which Singh says avoided billions in Canadian taxes through funds based in tax havens. Singh argued that companies profiting in Canada should pay taxes in Canada.
  
  
• Maxime Bernier, Leader of the PPC, held a press conference to discuss US tariffs. He argued that counter tariffs are a counterproductive way to respond to Trump's measures. “When we impose tariffs, we shoot ourselves in the foot,” he said.