Canadian leaders square off on final day of campaigning

Ottawa: Contenders for Monday’s Canadian general elections, including incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who is seeking a second term, have staged their final, frantic barrage of sales pitches before voters went to the polls to elect a new leader.
On Sunday, Trudeau was campaigning in the country’s West Coast, where he called on voters to unite behind the ruling Liberals, particularly in his home province of Quebec, reports CBC News.
“Canadians need to come together,” Trudeau added.
Andrew Scheer, the candidate of the main opposition Conservatives and Trudeau’s main rival, kicked off his day in Stanley Park, Vancouver touting what he called his party’s “positive” campaign, before visiting a number of local ridings, culminating in a rally at a hotel near the city airport.
Addressing the public on Sunday, leader of the New Democratic Party (NPD) Jagmeet Singh, who is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to sit as a provincial legislator in Ontario, said that any divisions in the country were a result of economic insecurity, exacerbated by the policies of successive Conservative and Liberal governments.
“All these worries and fears create division, or worries and fears allow others to come in and to divide us based on things that are not the reason for the problems,” he said.