Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 34

Welcome to Day 34 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 34:

• Election Day is Monday, April 28th. To locate your polling place or learn more about your local candidates, you can visit the Elections Canada website and enter your postal code.
  
  
• Liberal Leader Mark Carney visited Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie to promote a "buy Canadian" procurement strategy and warn against the threat of renewed US tariffs, pledging to defend Canadian workers. Carney emphasized plans for domestic auto manufacturing, infrastructure projects, and a $2-billion fund to protect manufacturing jobs.
  
  
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to cancel Parliament’s summer break if elected, vowing to pass three major bills within the first 100 days focused on affordability, crime, and the economy. His proposed legislation includes tax cuts, repealing the carbon tax, a tough-on-crime agenda using the notwithstanding clause, and repealing laws seen as barriers to resource development. Poilievre emphasized urgency for change and contrasted his vision with what he called a “lost Liberal decade” of rising costs and division.
  
  
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he has no regrets about supporting the Liberal government, emphasizing that doing so allowed key programs like dental care and pharmacare to roll out. Singh defended the decision as a way to improve lives and block a potential Conservative majority he believes would bring cuts and division. While the move has drawn criticism from both Conservatives and progressives, Singh argues it was necessary to protect hard-won social benefits.
  
  
• The Green Party has filed a judicial review after being excluded from the federal leaders’ debates, calling the last-minute decision by the independent commission unfair and lacking transparency. The Commission cited a discrepancy in the party's candidate numbers, while Co-Leader Elizabeth May argued the Greens followed all rules and were not given enough time to respond. The Party contends the exclusion violated its Charter rights and was based on politicized media reports rather than clear procedural guidelines.