Party leaders campaign in Ontario, B.C. battlegrounds as election day nears
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Party leaders blitzed key ridings in southern Ontario and British Columbia on Saturday with the final vote in the federal election now just two days away.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney took his tour through battleground ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as Windsor, Ont., a city where U.S. President Donald Trump's auto tariffs have created immense anxiety.
At a news conference at the Seneca College campus in King City, Ont., on Saturday morning, Carney focused his message heavily on protecting Canada from Trump.
"President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us," Carney said, repeating one of his most frequent campaign statements.
"And well, that will never happen."
Carney said if Canada unites, "we will win this trade war, and we will build the strongest economy in the G7."
When asked if that is an overly ambitious reading of what economists expect to happen to the Canadian economy in the coming years, Carney responded that winning a trade war means becoming an energy superpower with high amounts of trade with other countries and affordable housing.
Carney rejected the comments Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet made on Friday that Canada is "an artificial country with very little meaning."
"I reject them completely. This is an incredible country," he said. "What I would look to be part of is this process that is underway, of the country coming together, of unifying. And I want to support that, not divide."
He similarly said he aspires to be a prime minister for all Canadians. Yet he would not specify how he would include supporters of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre who say the country is headed for dire living conditions if Carney wins.
King City is in the riding of King-Vaughan, just north of Toronto, where the difference between the Liberals and Conservatives in 2021 was just over 1,000 votes.
Carney's tour is set to breeze through several more 905-area ridings on Saturday — named for being in the area around Toronto that originally all had a 905 area code.
Short stops were planned in Newmarket, Aurora and Markham, all seats the Liberals won in 2021 and need to keep to be victorious on Monday.
Later Saturday, Carney is expected to hold rallies in Mississauga and Windsor.
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