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Maxime Bernier and the People’s Party of Canada launched their official campaign from Saint-Georges, Que., on Monday, focused on slashing government spending while halting immigration.

“We need to stop that to preserve our culture, our standard of living, our economy,” Bernier said.

The former Conservative MP for Beauce is pitching his party — which strongly opposed COVID-19 lockdowns — as the “real conservatives” in this federal election.

Well, there goes the Globe and Mail. One of the few news outlets in the country that hadn’t been entirely captured by the Liberals gifted them with a smear of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday morning.

The story — headlined, CSIS Alleges India Organized Support for Poilievre’s 2022 Conservative Leadership Bid — contains almost no new information, at best 100 new words out of 1,100. Delivered on the third day of the election campaign, and laced with Liberal talking points about Poilievre’s “security clearance,” nothing about it smells right.

In the lead-up to most elections, pollsters and pundits usually have a good idea of what is most likely to happen.

We rely on signals beyond the popular vote race to form our assessments — signals like historical precedent, the mood of the electorate, economic performance, incumbency, inertia, and the desire for change.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told Canadians on Tuesday that they should be more worried about Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s ties to China, amid allegations that India meddled in Poilievre’s favour in the 2022 Conservative leadership race.

Poilievre dismissed the newsworthiness of a Globe and Mail article Tuesday outlining the allegations about India, but said at a housing announcement in Vaughan, Ont., that he was glad the story broke when it did, because it raised the issue of Carney’s own questionable foreign dealings.

Two days into the campaign and a single phrase has come to define the Conservative case against the Liberals’ re-election: the lost decade.

It seeks to convey Canada’s poor economic and social outcomes over the past decade of Liberal governance. The most notable expression is Canada’s declining GDP per capita, which has fallen for eight of the past 11 quarters.