Montreal: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, tried to carve out the advantage ahead of the election Monday, on Thursday said his main rival had adopted a loose approach to fighting Covid-19 and showed weak leadership.
The opinion poll shows the Liberal Trudeau tied with a central conservative at the center of Erin O’Toole and sees will fail in their efforts to win the majority of Parliament.
Trudeau, 49, noted that O’Toole, 48, had praised the decision of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney earlier this year to quickly raise restrictions on public health in the Western Province.
Covid-19 cases soared, threatening a health care system.
Kenney on Wednesday apologized for the wrong handling pandemic, said he would introduce a vaccine passport.
“The choice made by leaders in the crisis only a few days ago O’Toole was still clapping Kenney for managing a pandemic,” Trudeau told reporters in Montreal.
“It’s not the leadership we need in Ottawa to end this pandemic forever,” Trudeau added, which supports the mandatory vaccine mandate.
The liberal leader has been in power since 2015 but only has a minority of seats at the House of Commons.
Trudeau said Ottawa would send a ventilator to Alberta, which turned off liberals in the 2019 election.
The liberal campaign organizer, quoted unhappiness with Kenney, said the party could take three of the 34 provincial seats.
How to handle Covid-19 has become a political challenge for O’Toole.
He supports inoculation but says he prefers fast testing than vaccination mandates.
Conservatives can also see leakage support to Canadian right people (PPC), which consumes public anger for vaccination and locking.
In a tweet, the PPC leader Maxime bernier attacked Kenney for the announcement of the vaccine passport.
Bernier said he would go to the province “to join Albertans in their struggle against this wasland.” A revolving Nanos research telephone survey of 1,200 Canadians for CTV on Thursday placed public support for liberals at 31.9%, conservatives at 30.3% and new Democrats leaned on 22.4%.
Such results can produce deadlock where no parties are able to form even a stable minority government.
Trudeau triggered the election of the previous two years, trying to benefit from handling pandemic, but liberals could not eliminate voter fatigue.