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By Rod Nickel and Allison Lampert
NEWMARKET/TORONTO, Ontario Oct 18 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper and his team on Sunday urged
Conservative supporters to get out the vote as polls showed
Liberal rival Justin Trudeau holding a firm lead one day before
the country's fiercely fought election.
Fighting for a rare fourth term as prime minister, Harper
used a rally in Newmarket-Aurora, just north of Toronto, to
again tout his economic track record.
"There is an awful lot at stake," he told a crowd of about
600 supporters. "The choice we make is going to have real
consequences for the next four years for families, for seniors,
for small business."
A Nanos survey released on Sunday put the Liberals at 37.3
percent, approaching levels needed to win a majority of seats in
Parliament in Monday's vote. They lead the Tories by almost 7
percentage points, with the left-leaning New Democratic Party at
22.1 percent.
An Ipsos poll also published Sunday found 38 percent of
decided voters prefer the Liberals, 31 percent the Conservatives
and 22 percent the New Democrats.
Still, the Conservatives have a strong get-out-the-vote
track record, which could help them perform better than polls
suggest.
"Elections in some ridings are determined not by who votes,
but by who does not vote," Conservative member of parliament
Peter Van Loan said at the rally.
Speaking to supporters in Toronto, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair
remained feisty, even though his party has sunk to a distant
third.
Mulcair, who like Liberal Trudeau is wooing centrist voters
in addition to his party's left-leaning base, argued the NDP's
promise of four years of balanced budgets is socially
progressive.
Building up billions of dollars of debt is "a way of the
past," he said, trying to allay voter fears that an NDP
government would run up huge deficits with its social spending.
Addressing a 1,000-strong crowd in Edmonton in the oil-rich
province of Alberta, his rival Trudeau indirectly addressed the
lingering hostility toward his father, Pierre Trudeau, who was
prime minister for all but about nine months from 1968 to 1984.
The elder Trudeau alienated the West with energy policies
enacted during his rule.
Justin Trudeau said he came to deliver a message that
Alberta matters deeply to him. The Liberals have not had a seat
in the province since 2006.
"It's a message that I'm proud to deliver here with a big
smile as a Liberal, as a Trudeau and as a Quebecer," he said.