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Canada's Harper rallies voters as election enters final stretch

Published 2015-10-18, 11:04 a/m
© Reuters. Canada's Harper rallies voters as election enters final stretch

By Rod Nickel
NEWMARKET, Ontario, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Canada's Conservative
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his allies called on voters to
turn out to cast their ballot on Sunday as campaigning in the
closely fought, prolonged election entered its final stretch.
Fighting for a rare fourth term as prime minister and
lagging behind Liberal leader and frontrunner Justin Trudeau in
the polls, Harper used a rally in Newmarket-Aurora attended by
about 600 supporters to again tout his economic track record.
"There is an awful lot at stake," he said. "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 in
Parliament, ahead of Monday's vote. They lead the Tories by
almost 7 percentage points.
"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.
The comments came after Harper attended a Toronto rally on
Saturday evening organized in part by controversial former
Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who admitted to smoking crack during his
time in office.
The left-leaning New Democratic Party stand at 22.1 percent
in the Nanos poll.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair held events in Toronto on Sunday
before traveling to Montreal, where his party is facing a close
contest with the separatist Bloc Quebecois.

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