Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 22

Welcome to Day 22 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 22:

• Elections Canada has opened on-campus polling stations at over 100 universities and colleges across Canada, allowing early voting until April 16th. All eligible Canadians, not just students, can vote at these locations, with the usual ID and proof of address requirements.
  
  
• Environmental issues have dropped significantly in importance for Canadian voters in the 2025 federal election, falling from the top concern in 2021 to eighth place, according to CBC’s Vote Compass data. The top issue now is Canada-US relations, followed by the economy, cost of living, social justice, and health care.
  
  
• New research from the University of Ottawa highlighted the role social media influencers play in shaping political campaigns and voter behaviour, especially among younger Canadians. The study urges greater media literacy and regulatory frameworks to ensure transparency and accountability in how influencers participate in elections.
  
  
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to tighten transparency rules, including banning "shadow lobbying" and requiring cabinet ministers to divest from tax havens - a move aimed at Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
  
  
• Poilievre also pledged to protect Canadian Jews from rising antisemitism, criticizing the Liberal government for fostering division and failing to respond to hate targeting synagogues and Jewish schools.
  
  
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh unveiled his party’s plan for northern Ontario, promising to tackle health care shortages, high grocery prices, poor infrastructure, and gaps in French-language services. Speaking in Timmins, Singh criticized the federal government’s neglect of the region and outlined commitments including expanding local medical training, fixing the Nutrition North program, improving transportation routes, and strengthening Francophone services.