Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 6

Welcome to Day 6 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 6:

• Some Canadians have already cast their ballots in the federal election, even in ridings where official candidates have not yet been confirmed. Voters can submit a write-in ballot for a candidate they expect to run. Early voting is open until April 22nd at Elections Canada offices across the country.
  
  
• Thousands gathered at a Surrey warehouse for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s first BC rally, where he criticized the Liberal government for making life unaffordable and putting Canada "under the American thumb." Poilievre focused on issues like housing, crime, and immigration, promising to prioritize working Canadians and roll back Liberal policies.
  
  
• Poilievre pledged life sentences for large-scale human trafficking, gun smuggling, and fentanyl trafficking if the Conservatives form government. He also promised bail reforms and changes to human trafficking laws to make prosecutions easier, arguing Canada’s justice system is too lenient on repeat offenders. Poilievre says his plan will ensure “monsters rot in jail forever.”
  
  
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pledged to ban corporate landlords from purchasing affordable rental properties, calling the practice predatory and harmful to housing affordability. Speaking in Toronto, he highlighted the policy as central to his party’s platform. Singh also vowed to end financial supports for corporate landlords and expand funding for community housing initiatives.
  
  
• Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced that Canada and the US will begin negotiations on a new economic and security relationship after the election. Carney described a recent discussion with President Donald Trump but confirmed Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs next week in response to Trump's planned tariffs on April 2nd. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will continue talks with US officials during the election, while Carney focuses on the campaign.