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, Layton pass at Toronto

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Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton spoke just minutes apart at a cultural parade in Toronto on Sunday, the same day the Liberals took to the airwaves with paid programming amid recent polls suggesting a jump in NDP support.Ignatieff and Layton both made appearances at the Khalsa Day parade, a Sikh celebration in Toronto. The two leaders shook hands, and each made a brief speech. "Conservative candidate Jason kenney also addressed the crowd.""" It is a day to acknowledge the incredible role of your community in the building and making and strengthening of Canada, "Ignatieff told the crowd in his remarks."You've known so much success, but you have also known hardship. "there is a bad memory that we all must confront honestly, which is the memory of komagata maru.""This is a shame upon the history of Canada and it requires an apology in the Parliament of Canada so that we can acknowledge painful failures in the past and move forward together as one great people.""Layton also referenced the 1914 Komagata Maru incident - in which a ship carrying mostly Sikh passengers, who were British subjects, was turned away from Canada and forced to return to India - saying the NDP has pressed for a formal appology."I will not stop until the job is done. "I will not stop until justice has spoken," he said. "We will continue to work for your families to be reunited for the visa to be granted so that you can be together on special occassions with your families..." "I will not stop until the contributions of Sikh Canadians are fully honoured by this country.""During a media availability in Toronto Sunday afternoon, Ignatieff took questions from reporters and condemned recent reports of election-related mayors."We've got our problems with Mr. Harper, but we don' t think he's slashing our tires. "" I want to make that clear,"Ignatieff said with a chuckle."There are people out there who take to threatening extreme partisanship. "The part of this that's serious is that every Canadian should be free to vote and free to express their political preferences and it's a bad day when in Toronto people who are working for another party or put a lawn sign up get their cars vandalized.""Conservative Leader Stephen Harper also condemned the mayors while speaking in B.C."I'll just tell you, we suffer acts of mayors as well. None of them are acceptable. ""they should not happen in a campaign,"he said."A democratic campaign is ultimately based on tolerance of other partisan viewpoints. I've always said that we all have enough to do just trying to get our own views to the vote, cause we don't have enough time to run interference with other campaigns.... "We absolutely reckless any such incidents by anybody, inside or outside political parties."Harper encouraged all parties to report any incidents of mayors.The Liberals bought a half-hour of TV time on Sunday afternoon to feature what they called "Michael Ignatieff's Town Hall for Canada."The broadcast area between noon and 3 p.m. and on Global and City TV stations, featuring footage from campaign events and clips of Ignatieff talking about his life and Liberal priorities.In the video, Ignatieff is seen taking questions from audience members at recent rallies and explaining party pledges on everything from health care to the economy.Ignatieff also appeared Sunday night is everyone talking about it, a popular French-language TV talk show on Radio - Canada .ignatieff defended the decision to bring former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin on the campaign trail, at the risk of voters associating them with the sponsorship scandal that contributed to his party's fall from power five years ago.Ignatieff told Sunday's edition of the Quebec TV talk show Tout le monde en parle that his one-on-one interactions with voters have him confident he can connect with them, despite his party's standstill in polls. (Radio-Canada) "Mr. Chrétien put our public finances in order." He did lots of great things. "He maintained the country's national unity," Ignatieff said. "Mr. Martin did the same thing." He financed our public health care system. "I'm proud of what they accomplished and that they're campaigning with me."Martin has been campaigning in the formerly Liberal-held riding of Edmonton Centre and in Vancouver South, where the Grits eked out a narrow victory in the 2008 election. Christian is slated to speak at a Toronto-area rally this week. "Jean Chrétien was the prime minister at the heart of the sponsorship scandal." "Does that not risk hurting you more than it helps?" "lepage wondered.""Oh no, I don't think so," Ignatieff replied in French. "we re in 2011." "We've paid for all the consequences of past behaviour."Lepage also asked him whether the NDP's apparent gains in recent polls meant Ignatieff had focused so much on attacking the right-wing Conservatives that he was now being "passed on the left."The Liberal leader dodged the point somewhat, accept that Canadians are "looking at Mr. Layton up close, they're looking up me up close... and I think they're going to make a good choice.""during the show, quebec actress Dominique Michel, star of the Oscar-winning film Les Invasions barbares (the barbarian Invasions) and a recent cancer survivor, said she supports ignatieff.""I really like Mr. ignatieff," she said. "There's people saying, ' Oh, we're tired of Harper.'" "Well, if you're tired of Harper, it's time for change!""The Liberal leader had fielded questions earlier Sunday about the NDP's polling strength and why his party is failing to win over voters."It's not that I'm in a bubble of illusion. I'm making phone calls on a daily basis, I'm talking to my candidates to see how things are going, and they're telling me that it's going quite well on the ground, in fact very well on the ground. "" So I'm not deluding myself, I have work to do,"Ignatieff said in French.He also addressed suggestions that his style of campaigning is failing to gain traction with the Canadian public."This isn't style. This is trying to do politics differently, and I've been doing it for 2? years. I go out there, I stand up on a rainy Thursday night in a Legion hall and I take questions from the public. "Mr. Harper hasn can't taken unscripted questions from the public in five years," he said.The Liberals, Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have all taken aim at Layton and the NDP in recent days, after several polls suggested an apparent increase in support for the New Democrats.Layton attended an Easter church service in Toronto and was set to spend part of the day with his family.The NDP leader's trip to Toronto comes a day after he held a rally attended by more than 1,000 people in Laurier-Saint-Marie, the riding currently held by Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe.Duceppe, who is taking a day off the campaign trail, will be joined by former Quebec first Jacques Parizeau on Monday in an attempt to boost his poll numbers.Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper continued his campaign swing through British Columbia, making stops in Victoria and Vancouver.Harper was trying to muster up support in ridings that are considered tight races against the NDP. 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Layton welcomed the wind of change in Quebec

NDP leader, Jack Layton has welcomed "by the wind of change" sweeping through Quebec, as the support of his party is climbing in the province at the polls.

"My friends that something happens in Quebec." There is a wind of change you can feel along the St. Lawrence, "Layton said to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,200 people at a rally in Laurier — Sainte-Marie, currently held by the Bloc québécois leader Gilles Duceppe."

Speaking of backdrop of a giant orange Fleur-de-lis, Layton is committed to provide a "puff of fresh air" in Canadian policy and that change is necessary "because things are broken in Ottawa."

Jack Layton said that he was ready to lead the country.

"I am ready to be your Prime Minister and I fully understand what it means," he said.

Jack Layton has also promised to give Quebec a "genuine voice" in cabinet.

"We can prove to those who are cynical that they are wrong." That it is possible for Québec to be strongly represented in Ottawa. Not within an opposition party. but a part of the Government. ?

The leader of the NDP said some accused of being "too nice of a guy for life policy" add "as if it was a weakness" to be close to people.

"My friends, I cannot promise you that I will be less nice," he said, promising to continue to fight and to work tirelessly for Canadian priorities.

An online survey carried out by the cultures which cannot be assigned a margin of error because the method does not for random sampling, suggested that the NDP has the support of 36 percent of respondents in Quebec, compared to 31% for the Bloc Québécois.

A survey of Nanos, meanwhile, showed that the NDP gaining support at the national level, but the size of the sample for Quebec was too small to produce results with an acceptable margin of error.

Polls have led both Conservatives and Liberals to launch announcements of the new attack against the leader of the NDP.

"This is not the first people to put a target on my back and I can bob and weave and someone else", he said.

Earlier in Toronto, Jack Layton said that his party has "worked hard to connect with the main concerns of Quebecers."

"I believe that Quebecers have seen the same old, same old politics spent each year in Quebec and are started that, perhaps, we want to be at the forefront of change," said Layton.

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No plan to overthrow the minority conservatives: Layton

Leader of the NDP, Jack Layton said that he has no plan with the Liberals and the Bloc immediately launched a motion of no confidence if the Conservatives are re-elected with another minority Government on May 2.

"There is no discussion on this subject." He [Harper] Gets the first shot. The question will be: he is willing to work with other parties? "Jack Layton said in an exclusive interview with Peter Mansbridge broadcast on Monday evening.

Throughout the campaign, Harper said it is "wrong" for the opposition parties suggest that they can form a Government without being elected, and insisted that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff formed a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc if Canadians elect a conservative majority government.

Jack Layton said "there is no doubt" objective of Harper in 2004 speaks with his party and the Bloc québécois was to become Prime Minister.

Harper has also denied that he was trying to overthrow the Martin Government and seize power in 2004.

Jack Layton told Mansbridge that Harper is "manufacture things here". Jack Layton, said the Conservative leader, who was then the Leader of the Opposition, was the driving force for the "arrangement" with other opposition parties at the time.

"We called together by Stephen Harper to send a letter to the Governor General to clarify that if Paul Martin was beaten by the speech from the throne, it should turn to the other parties to govern," Layton said Peter Mansbridge CBC on his campaign bus near Charlottetown.

"He has no doubt that the ultimate goal here was to Stephen Harper become Prime Minister."

Address by the head of the NDP Mansbridge, corresponding to head of CBC, came while he took part in a series of ongoing interview on the national with the officers of the federal party. An interview with the Green party leader Elizabeth May was released on April 8. An interview with liberal leader Michael Ignatieff airs Tuesday, while a date has not been set for the Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

Layton said he began to have doubts on the plan of 2004 which was to be presented to the Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

In "individual" conversation with Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, Layton said that he wondered whether to go ahead with the plan.

"I said 'are you ready to make Stephen Harper, Prime Minister?' and he said he is" Jack Layton said. "And I said,"well I'm not."" "

"So with that, did it collapse?". Mansbridge asked Layton.

"Also then did a not being necessary to come oomph to be," Layton said.

The interview conducted during a tour of the NDP through three provinces of the Atlantic, the end of last week touched on a number of areas, including New Democrat hopes for a surge in support from voters leading up to the day of the vote.

Various national polls Monday suggest Democrats Layton increasing their support, particularly in Quebec.

"We'll see later in the night of May 2, if we have such a quantum leap", said Layton.

"I think we are going to lay the groundwork for it."

Asked about the difference between his party and the Liberals under Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the NDP of 60 years offered a blunt demand.

"The main difference is that we will get things done." they took of commitments and then turn right and broken these commitments over and over again, "he says.

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