Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking to carve out a lead ahead of a Sept. 20 election, on Thursday accused his main rival of showing weak leadership in the fight against COVID-19.
Opinion polls show Trudeau's center-left Liberals are tied with the right-of-center Conservatives led by Erin O'Toole and appear set to fail in their bid to win a parliamentary majority in Monday's vote.
"That's not the leadership we need in Ottawa to end this pandemic for good," added Trudeau, who backs mandatory vaccine mandates. The Liberal leader heads a minority government that depends on the opposition to pass legislation. "As prime minister, I will work with all premiers, regardless of stripe, to fight against the pandemic," he told reporters in Saint John, New Brunswick, saying Trudeau should not have triggered an election during a pandemic.
The Conservatives are at risk of seeing some support leak to the right-wing People's Party of Canada , whichPPC leader Maxime Bernier, who also was a minister in Harper's government, attacked Kenney over his vaccine passport announcement. Bernier tweeted that he would go to the province "to join Albertans in their fight against this despot."
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