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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a press conference at Petro Plastics Corporation Ltd. in Toronto on Sunday, March 30, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Proctor
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Federal party leaders are campaigning in Quebec today

Apr 4, 2025 | 10:03 AM

OTTAWA — Party leaders will be in Quebec today as the second week of the federal election campaign comes to a close.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he would strengthen Canada’s public broadcaster if his party wins the federal election later this month. Speaking in Montreal this morning, Carney promised to increase C-B-C’s funding by 150-million dollars, saying it plays a vital role in Canadian storytelling, news and information.

Meanwhile, N-D-P Leader Jagmeet (JUG’-meet) Singh is pitching to voters that only his party will close corporate tax loopholes that he says cost Canadians up to 39-billion dollars annually.

Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre will hold a press conference in Trois-Rivières, Que., today.

Quebec is a seat-rich province with 78 electoral districts and recent polls suggest the Liberals have reversed a lead previously held by the Bloc.

A Leger poll released this week, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, suggests that 44 per cent of decided voters say they will vote Liberal in the upcoming election, ahead of the Conservatives at 38 per cent. The poll had the NDP at just seven per cent.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2025.