April 29, 2024 10:12 GMT
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- Recent polls suggest Trudeau Liberals remain stuck well behind Conservatives after a budget with a plan to build millions of homes amid an affordability squeeze.
- Senate and House committees to hear from BOC Governor Macklem, Wed at 415pm EST and Thurs at 845am. Conservatives often press for comments about budget deficits and inflation.
- Honda agrees to build Ontario facility with Canada continuing to offer multibillion dollar subsidies to advance EV production.
- Polling aggregator 338Canada shows Conservatives likely to win majority government if an election were held now. Election is due in 2025 under traditional four-year mandate.
- Provincial relations remain frayed: Trudeau said Saskatchewan continues to defy tax agreements by withholding carbon tax revenue owed to the federal treasury.
- Mark Carney landing on lists of potential Liberal leadership candidates. From speech last Monday: “We can’t redistribute what we don’t have” and “Governments that spend too much and invest too little will eventually pay a heavy price.”
- Conservatives will ask Carney to testify at parliamentary committee, after he suggested their plans are simply to tear things down.
- Sample headlines: The Liberal’s immigration policies have accomplished the opposite of what was intended (Globe and Mail) ; When will Mark Carney run? (Globe); Sophie Gregoire Trudeau says family life with PM post-separation 'gets messy,' but they have each other's back (CBC)
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