Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe will campaign Monday with a face from the past, as a new democratic leader, Jack Layton returned to Quebec to hammer home his advantage.
Jacques Parizeau, former leader of the Parti Québécois is scheduled to join Duceppe in the suburbs of Montreal, St-Lambert on Monday morning, which should encourage Québec voters to support the block on 2 May. The appearance is an attempt to suppress the growing support of NDP in Quebec.
During this time, Layton, who began the day of the Saint John, will wrap with a rally in Gatineau, Quebec, when trying to take advantage of the apparent momentum of his party. A recent survey indicates NDP is climbing in Quebec over the block.
Conservative leader Stephen Harper will be the campaign day in Ontario, starting with a campaign event at a local college in Sault Ste. Marie and finishing with a rally in Windsor.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is criss-crossing the country Monday as the last week of the campaign gets underway. He began the day with an availability of media in Thunder Bay, Ontario, then travels to the West Coast, where he will visit a business local in West Vancouver, followed by an evening City Hall in Vancouver.
Green party leader Elizabeth May is his campaign strategy to focus on his riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands Monday. May is taken on conservative incumbent Gary Lunn.
It will be vague for commuters to a centre commercial of Saanich in the morning, followed by a meeting with Media House Victoria Gordon Head and door-to-door canvassing in Sidney, British Columbia Colombia, Monday night.
In an interview Sunday night on everyone talking about, Radio-Canada popular talk-show watched by more than 1.5 million Quebecers, Ignatieff addressed suggestions that the NDP is overtaking bloc and the Liberals.
"I think that the end of the week of Easter, after the Turkey and leg of lamb, I think that Canadians are reflecting," he said in French.
On the show everyone speaks, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff defended his comments on the views of Quebec and the Quebec of the Canadian Constitution. (Radio-Canada)"I think they are, if I may say so, tired of Mr. Harper." For example, they have respect for Mr. Duceppe, but they think, what can that get us? They seek to Mr. Layton closely, they look at me closely. They will make a choice.... "I remain very confident in the judgment of voters".
Ignatieff also known as the scandals of the conservatives who have surfaced in the campaign - including the controversy surrounding the former advisor of Harper Bruce Carson and suggestions of political interference by official of high communications Dimitri please - saying there is no "goodies".the Conservatives have served late.
There are four people in the immediate entourage of Mr. Harper, who are accused of criminal fraud. There was Mr. Carson, which is a fraudster and the time spent in prison and now it is Mr. Soudas, I know not all the details, but it does not feel good, and it continues. He y atmosphere in the Harper Government that I find unacceptable to Canadians. ?
Host Guy a. Lepage questioned Liberal leader on its claim to the debate of the leaders of the French language, echoed by Conservative leader Stephen Harper, that Quebecers do not see the Canadian Constitution as a major anymore.
Ignatieff said he believes that it is a national "wounds" that Quebec never signed the Constitution Act, 1982, which created the Charter of rights.
"I have always believed that.". But what I noticed as a political reality when I'm in regions... is that people are not talking about the Constitution. This is what I wanted to say. They talk about employment, they talk about the future of their children.
Appearance of Jack Layton on the show earlier in the campaign is credited contributing to increase his popularity in Quebec. Duceppe's Bloc went also on the show, while Harper has no plan for.
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