Canada Election: Leaders Make Final Appeals Before Monday's Vote

[Little Tich]

Source: Huffington Post Canada

OTTAWA — The federal party leaders are making their final pitches to Canadians as one of the longest, most unpredictable national election campaigns since Confederation grinds to a close before Monday's vote.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, fresh off a controversial Saturday night rally with former Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug, made whistle stops in a couple of Toronto's suburban 905-area code ridings before winging west to Saskatchewan and then British Columbia.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair also began the day in Toronto with a rally but heads east to Montreal to close out his 78-day campaign.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, was in Edmonton Sunday morning where he made an unorthodox pitch to Quebeckers, half a continent away, to get on board with a new national government after a decade of Harper government rule.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/18/final-appeals-come-as-leaders-make-last-day-vote-pitch-before-monday-election_n_8326096.html

[Ken Burch]

1. The only hope for anything good is if Trudeau is held to a minority.

If he doesn't need NDP support, he'll be just like Chretien and Martin.

It's a tragedy that the NDP is falling to third place again. Only the rich benefit from that.

[uawchild]

4. So true, the NDP is the strongest voice for social justice of all parties

Right wing media in Canada has managed once again to marginalize NDP candidates in the voters' eyes by playing to fear and hatred.
This election it was the fact that Mulcair and the NDP thought that Muslin women should be allowed to wear niqabs (veils) at Canadian Citizenship swearing in ceremonies. The NDP sees it as a clear cut case of religious freedom and not a "security" issue as the conservatives and conservative media has painted it.

"Mulcair holds firm on allowing niqabs during citizenship oath, even if vote slips"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mulcair-clarifies-stance-on-niqab-at-citizenship-ceremonies/article26540126/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. Still hoping for an NDP minority at the very least.

"Never let them tell you that it can't be done." I for one don't trust the polls, but at the same time I have low confidence of Canadian voters critical thinking skills. We might just up with a 'kinder gentler type of conservatism", that can purchase overpriced crappy weed at government sanctioned outlets. Sigh.

[roamer65]

3. Hopefully you folks get a Lib-NDP coalition government.

If projections are correct, a Lib-NDP coalition would be well past the 170 seats required for a majority. Some of Canada's best legislation came out of Lester Pearson's coalition with the NDP.