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Canada's Trudeau braces for close election in last campaign weekend

Published 2015-10-17, 11:57 a/m
© Reuters. Canada's Trudeau braces for close election in last campaign weekend

By Randall Palmer
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Political leaders
began their final weekend dashes across Canada on Saturday
before voters decide on Monday whether to grant Conservative
Prime Minister Stephen Harper a rare fourth consecutive mandate
after a prolonged and hard-fought election.
"This is going to be a close election," front-runner Liberal
leader Justin Trudeau told a crowd of about 1,000 supporters in
Halifax, on Canada's east coast.
He told reporters afterwards he was not taking anything for
granted.
It was the first of four campaign stops he would make over
thousands of miles on Saturday before staying overnight in the
western province of Alberta.
"We're on the verge of accomplishing something big,"
Trudeau, 43, said.
Harper also started on the east coast and was heading to
Laval, Quebec, and Toronto. Thomas Mulcair, leader of the
left-leaning New Democratic Party, flew across the country on
Friday and was concentrating on the Pacific province of British
Columbia on Saturday, where candidates are fighting a tough
three-way race. The party is in third place in national polls.
Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is
leading the Conservatives by as much as eight percentage points
in the opinion polls, sitting as high as 38 percent, very close
to what is needed to win a majority of seats in the House of
Commons.
Ipsos pollster Darrell Bricker cautioned on Saturday however
that the tradition in Canada is to report all eligible voters,
rather than likely voters. An Angus Reid poll on Friday that
looked at likely voters put the Liberal lead at only one point
ahead.
An Ekos poll released on Friday said the Conservatives had a
narrow lead among those who had voted in advance polls.

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