By Canadian Press

CANADA’S CHOICE 2025

Federal party leaders enter first full day on campaign trail in five-week election

Mar 24, 2025 | 2:01 AM

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising a middle-class tax cut, following a Liberal pledge that involves a lower reduction to the same tax rate.

Poilievre says he would drop lower the lowest income tax bracket by 2.25 percentage points, compared to a promise Liberal Leader Mark Carney made Sunday for a drop of one percentage point.

The Conservative leader is holding his first campaign event today at a paper products plant in Brampton, Ont., while Carney is leaning on Canadian symbolism with a stop today in Gander, Nfld.

The town in northeastern Newfoundland famously fed and housed thousands of passengers — most of them Americans — when flights were grounded after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will make an announcement in Montreal before heading to downtown Toronto, with an evening event planned.

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The Greater Toronto Area will likely loom large in this election; with so many seats it can make or break a party in a close election.

Asserting Canada’s sovereignty and economic strength is key in all three major party pushes so far, as the leaders try to promote themselves as the best positioned to handle U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic attacks and threats of annexation.

The election will be held on April 28.