{"id":232562,"date":"2019-09-27T01:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232562"},"modified":"2019-09-27T01:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:28:52","slug":"party-leaders-scatter-from-vancouver-island-to-montreal-as-campaign-starts-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/27\/party-leaders-scatter-from-vancouver-island-to-montreal-as-campaign-starts-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Party leaders scatter from Vancouver Island to Montreal as campaign starts Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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. (File Photo:<\/a> Andrew Scheer\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Green Leader Elizabeth May are both in Montreal today, as the third week of the federal election campaign begins.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mount Royal has gone for the Liberals in every election since 1940; it was the seat of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s father Pierre for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n

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 he’d harassed another MP; and Nicola Di Iorio, who stopped showing up in the House of Commons before eventually resigning last winter.<\/p>\n

Still, Conservatives have never come close to winning there.<\/p>\n

May is to speak in the afternoon about the role she sees Quebec playing in the Greens’ vision of a Canada powered by renewable energy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh is spending a third day in a row in British Columbia, talking mainly about housing in events on Vancouver Island. He’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.<\/p>\n

Singh is starting in Campbell River and plans to roadtrip south to Nanaimo.<\/p>\n

And Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party continues his own trip to the West, spreading his populist message in Calgary after spending Wednesday in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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