A day after making their respective campaign pitches to Quebec voters during back-to-back interviews on Radio-Canada’s widely-viewed weekend talk show Tout le monde en parle, both Liberal leader Mark Carney and his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre are making the rounds in Montreal this morning.

According to his campaign team, Poilievre is scheduled to hold his daily “message event” — which typically includes both a policy announcement and a brief back-and-forth with reporters — somewhere in the city. (9 a.m.)

For his part, Carney will “deliver remarks and hold a media availability” in Dorval, Que., where he’s all but guaranteed to face a flurry of questions on what, if any, further action he or his party intend to take against the still-unidentified Liberal staffers who, as CBC News revealed yesterday, “planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party” at the Canada Strong and Free Networking conference in Ottawa last week. (10 a.m.)

“The Liberal Party said Sunday evening that some campaigners ‘regrettably got carried away’ with the use of buttons ‘poking fun’ at reports of Conservative infighting,” the public broadcaster reported last night.

“Liberal spokesperson Kevin Lemkay said the party has conducted a review of the matter and that leader Mark Carney had made it clear ‘this does not fit his commitment to serious and positive discourse.’”

Elsewhere in the city, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault will outline why his party “strongly supports the open letter issued by mayors and councillors across Canada calling for bold, national action on climate and infrastructure” — which, as CBC News reported last week, was co-signed by outgoing Montreal mayor Valérie Plante, Jasper mayor Richard Ireland and former Toronto mayor David Miller, among others — during a mid-morning press conference at his campaign office in Outremont, Que. (10:30 a.m.)

Meanwhile, New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh starts his day in Toronto, where, according to his office, he’s booked to appear on CTV’s Your Morning (7:05 a.m.) and Breakfast Television (8 a.m.) before teaming up with Toronto-Danforth New Democrat hopeful Clare Hacksel for a mid-morning policy reveal. (10 a.m.)

Also on the radar: The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force holds a mid-morning briefing session to update reporters on its ongoing efforts to monitor — and, if necessary, publicly flag — “hostile state interference” in the current election, as it did last week when, as Global News reports, the group “detected a Beijing-backed operation on the Chinese social media platform WeChat focused on (Carney),” courtesy of a “popular news account (that) has been linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s central political and legal affairs commission.” (11 a.m.)

ON AND AROUND THE HILL

Canadian Health Coalition representatives and likeminded “health care advocates” — including, it’s worth noting, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada president Amanda Black and Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights executive director Frédérique Chabot —  hit the West Block press theatre to “call on political party leaders to make health care and pharmacare key issues in the election debate” — and, more specifically, to “explain their plans to defend and improve public medicare,” as well as respond to what the advisory describes as “concerns surrounding the completion of universal pharmacare, implementing public dental care (and) funding and enforcement of the Canada Health Act,” which “have not been addressed clearly by all parties,” the advisory contends. (10:30 a.m.)

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Following the formal dissolution of the 44th Parliament, the federal election is now underway as voters get ready to head to the polls on Apr. 28, 2025.

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