Economics
Harper Warns of Liberal Economic Decline on Eve of Canada Vote
- Incumbent Conservative attacks Trudeau in Bloomberg interview
- PM trails by 5 points in national polls after 11-week campaign
Conservative leader Stephen Harper looks on during a rally in London, Ontario.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in one of his final interviews before Canada’s election, warned that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau would lead the nation to long-term economic decline, and expressed confidence Canadians will choose his platform of balanced budgets and tax cuts.
Lagging in the polls ahead of Monday’s vote, Harper has spent the last week of the campaign highlighting what he says are the risks of returning the Liberals to power: higher taxes, deficits and increased government spending. In an interview Sunday at a campaign stop in Mississauga, Ontario, just outside Toronto, Harper stressed many of those same themes.