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6:30 a.m.
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.)
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.)