Layton draws heat from the last days of the campaign

West new leaders Jack Layton, leader of the Democrat party drum up support in British Columbia Colombia Friday, while Conservative leader Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff move to ensure support in Ontario and Quebec.

Layton attend a campaign in Kamloops, followed by a rally event in Courtenay, on Vancouver Island, in the evening.

Harper will attend a campaign event in Montreal, followed by the judgments of the Ontario in Kingston and Ajax and a rally in Brampton.

Ignatieff issue: a hotel in city of Val-d'or, Que., Friday morning, followed by an announcement and visit with local businesses in London, Ontario and a rally in Kitchener.

Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, will deliver a speech in Gatineau, Quebec, followed by a meeting with supporters of Shefford and a visit to local companies in Magog. It encapsulates the day by meeting with supporters of Brome-Missisquoi.

Green party leader Elizabeth may attends to the candidates met in Victoria, followed by for a lunch of royal wedding and the press conference in Sidney, British Columbia Colombia.

Faced with polls suggesting Democrats have emerged in second place and are closing on the Conservatives, the Liberals have continued their attack on the NDP Thursday.

Ignatieff told an election rally in Quebec, where the NDP has gained ground - that the policies of Layton pass muster, saying that the Chief has a beautiful smile, but has not been placed "under a microscope" insofar as that other federal party leaders have.

Harper, promised during this time, conservative vigilance to ensure the Loon mounted the Canada translates into more competitive consumer prices soaring.

The talking about conservative leader of the trade and security on the border issues as he made a final assault through the Golden Horseshoe of Ontario in the empty goal until enough swing of seats to give him a majority government Monday.

Layton is faced with more difficult questions on the holiday of candidates and the potential impact of the policies of his party on jobs and the economy.

He dismissed the report of the critic, which proposed a CAP and the NDP for carbon trade system would add 10 cents per litre for the price of gasoline, as collusion between the large polluters.

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Ignatieff campaign of Harper in New Brunswick

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff responds to a question during an appearance of media in Winnipeg on Tuesday. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

Conservative leader Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff headed east to New Brunswick day 26 of the campaign, while Jack Layton tries to ensure support NDP in Ontario.

Ignatieff will spend Wednesday morning in Saint John, including a meeting with the local Liberals and an appearance in a museum.

The Liberals lost the southern New Brunswick riding for the conservatives in 2008 by fewer than 500 votes. The Liberals have the Deputy Mayor of Saint John are running in the riding.

Ignatieff said in an interview with CBC News last week that the Liberals would be willing to cover some of approximately $ 1 billion in overruns on the Point Lepreau Nuclear renovation project. Only nuclear reactor of the Atlantic Canada is located about 30 km west of Saint John.

Liberal leader then in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to lead a campaign rally in the evening.

Harper begins the day in Québec with an event of campaign with the candidates in the region to Rivière-du-Loup, prior to New Brunswick.

The Conservative leader will appear at Edmundston, N.B., with Bernard Valcourt, former Minister of the cabinet of Brian Mulroney which seeks to return to federal politics in the electoral district of the North-West of Madawaska — Restigouche.

Valcourt is often known for a motorcycle accident serious, in which he lost his right eye. After losing the 1993 election, Valcourt served as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in New Brunswick.

Harper will then move to Fredericton, New Brunswick a venue that the Conservatives fought away from the Liberals in 2008.

Jack Layton, new democratic party leader will spend the day in Ontario, including a campaign event in the counties of Essex and the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario hotel meeting.

Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe meeting with the local media in Farnham, Que., Wednesday morning, followed by a visit to a centre of textile in Saint-Hyacinthe and Drummondville plant visit. It encapsulates the day with a rally in Quebec City in the evening.

Green party leader Elizabeth may heads back to the Colombia British Columbia, where she is fighting against conservative incumbent Gary Lunn in the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands.

May meet with the citizens on issues relating to disability in Saanich and attend a Chamber of commerce candidates gathered in Sidney, in the evening.

Ignatieff said in an exclusive interview with CBC News Tuesday, that he would be willing to form a Government if the Conservative Party won the most seats in the election but failed to win the confidence of Parliament.

In the interview with Peter Mansbridge, CBC, Ignatieff said that he would try to form a Government if called by the Governor General.

It is the nearest Ignatieff came to describe how he could become Prime Minister since his first day of the campaign to renounce a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.

Harper said that ignatieff finally admits that he is open to try to become Prime Minister, with the support of the NDP and the Bloc.

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Green Campaign ' on winning seats,' may says

Green party leader Elizabeth May, departed from the discussions of the heads will be televised later this week, took to the airwaves in a national broadcast Sunday night which saw a panel of journalists grill him on the platform and the electoral aspirations of his party.

"We are serious." "We are pragmatic about the issues that matter to Canadians," can be said in his remarks. "And they do not find a better platform for any of the other political parties."

May has invited several television stations, CHCH in Ontario and CHEK in British Columbia Colombia, and the other four heads of major party political debate, but only the Green Chief agreed.

She was interviewed by journalists from the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator in a half-hour program called Elizabeth May, For the Record.

After may confirmed that "it's election is subject to win seats" for his party, journalists asked him where she thought that the Greens could make the elusive breakthrough asked and capture a constituency to the House of Commons.

May replied that she thinks that it is current neck-and-neck with conservative candidate in the riding of British Columbia Colombia of Saanich-Gulf Islands Gary Lunn and maintained Greens also have a chance for Vancouver Centre, Yukon and the districts of Guelph and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Ontario.

She then swat away sharp investigations of journalists, which asked him to account for 2 million per year than his party receives public funding to all the main political parties, as well as to explain why voters should choose green if they have almost no chance of forming a Government.

May, is to the left, supporters at a campaign in Halifax Saturday gathering. Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press

"The only way a citizen in the Canada may waste their vote is not to vote," it can be said. "Canadians are so disillusioned frankly an existing political parties in Parliament." … This is a very clear message to vote Green. ?

She noted that the NDP under the former leader Tommy Douglas never formed Government but nonetheless forced the creation of the health care system to the Canada.

On the question of financing of elections, may said federal funding for political parties is "a public plan fair" - and, for a total cost of less than $ 30 million per year, step in line with the cost to the taxpayers by allowing deductions of tax on donations of individual parties policies.

The Conservatives have assailed the public-financing law and attempted unsuccessfully to repeal it.

The consortium of broadcasters hold leaders debates chose to exclude may on the grounds that the Greens did not have a member in the last legislature.

Then, the Federal Court of Appeal declined to hear a court from the decision of the consortium may challenge before the first debate, in English, on Tuesday.

The Greens did not get a seat on the federal election of 2008, but has attracted nearly one million votes. The Bloc Québécois 1.4 million votes he won 49 seats, in comparison.

Perhaps submission for inclusion in the debates was supported by two former Prime Ministers - Joe Clark and Paul Martin - as ombudsman of the SRC Kirk LaPointe, former Chief of the Department of elections, Jean-Pierre Kingsley and fair to the Canada.

"Our system allows you to elect a representative in a district with as little as 35 to 40% of the vote," it can be said Sunday, the electoral structure underlying the difficult situation of the her party. "60 To 65 percent of voters in that district have no representation and is anti-democratic."

Four other party leaders national - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, new democratic party leader and leader of Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe - will be beat you in a debate in Ottawa on Tuesday English and a French debate Wednesday.

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