Leaders echo messages in final push to election day

Federal party leaders hit the hustings Friday with election day fast approaching, as Mark Carney of the Liberals focused on U.S. tariff threats in a steel town and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre campaigned on his anti-crime platform in Saskatoon.Canadians cast ballots to choose their next government on Monday.The Liberals are widely seen to be leading in the polls, with the Conservatives in second place and the Bloc Québécois, NDP and Greens trailing behind.The campaign stops in the final phase of the election are showing each leader’s hand, said David McGrane, a political scientist at the University of Saskatchewan.The Conservatives are trying to hold onto their seats through visits from Poilievre, McCrane said, while the Liberals are confident enough they’ll form government that Carney is spending time in contested ridings.“Historically this is sort of the equivalent of a poker player having a tell,” he said. “They’re telling their opponents essentially what they have in their...