ANALYSIS | 7 million Canadians voted before all party platforms were out. Do platforms still matter? | CBC News

At Issue | Party leaders unveil their platforms — finally4 days agoDuration 22:27At Issue this week: All the major federal parties have finally released their costed platforms, but will they sway voters? What does the path to victory look like for each party on election night? And could some leaders lose their own seats?Before the Conservatives unveiled their election platform on Tuesday — the last platform to be released by the mainfederal parties—more than seven million Canadianshad already voted.That suggestsa significant chunk of the Canadian public felt they didn'tneed to compare the costed party platforms before casting a vote. Butit alsocallsinto question the relevanceof such documents."The fact that all the key parties waited very late in the campaign to put forward their platform, I think, gives us an indication that they didn't think this would be what voters would be very interested about," said Sébastien Dallaire, executive vice-president of Eastern Canada for the Leger pol...