Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Green Leader Elizabeth May are both in Montreal today, as the third week of the federal election campaign begins.
Scheer has a morning announcement scheduled at Jarry Park and then hits the town with Conservative candidates in what have historically been among the safest Liberal ridings in the city: Mount Royal and Saint-Leonard-Saint-Michel.
Mount Royal has gone for the Liberals in every election since 1940; it was the seat of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s father Pierre for nearly 20 years.
Saint-Leonard-Saint-Michel has elected Liberals since it was created in the 1980s, though its three MPs have been Alfonso Gagliano, a minister brought down in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s; Massimo Pacetti, whom Justin Trudeau expelled from the Liberal caucus in 2014 over allegations he91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™d harassed another MP; and Nicola Di Iorio, who stopped showing up in the House of Commons before eventually resigning last winter.
Still, Conservatives have never come close to winning there.
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May is to speak in the afternoon about the role she sees Quebec playing in the Greens91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™ vision of a Canada powered by renewable energy.
Trudeau starts his day in Sudbury, Ont., expected to continue a string of environment-related announcements at a conservation area, before whistlestopping his way southeast to a rally in Peterborough, where cabinet minister Maryam Monsef is fighting to keep her seat.
The NDP91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s Jagmeet Singh is spending a third day in a row in British Columbia, talking mainly about housing in events on Vancouver Island. He91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s playing defence: Vancouver Island is where the Greens see their best chances of picking up seats, after a byelection win over the New Democrats in Nanaimo-Ladysmith last May.
Singh is starting in Campbell River and plans to roadtrip south to Nanaimo.
And Maxime Bernier of the People91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s Party continues his own trip to the West, spreading his populist message in Calgary after spending Wednesday in Vancouver.
The Canadian Press
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