Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff responds to a question during an appearance of media in Winnipeg on Tuesday. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)Conservative leader Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff headed east to New Brunswick day 26 of the campaign, while Jack Layton tries to ensure support NDP in Ontario.
Ignatieff will spend Wednesday morning in Saint John, including a meeting with the local Liberals and an appearance in a museum.
The Liberals lost the southern New Brunswick riding for the conservatives in 2008 by fewer than 500 votes. The Liberals have the Deputy Mayor of Saint John are running in the riding.
Ignatieff said in an interview with CBC News last week that the Liberals would be willing to cover some of approximately $ 1 billion in overruns on the Point Lepreau Nuclear renovation project. Only nuclear reactor of the Atlantic Canada is located about 30 km west of Saint John.
Liberal leader then in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to lead a campaign rally in the evening.
Harper begins the day in Québec with an event of campaign with the candidates in the region to Rivière-du-Loup, prior to New Brunswick.
The Conservative leader will appear at Edmundston, N.B., with Bernard Valcourt, former Minister of the cabinet of Brian Mulroney which seeks to return to federal politics in the electoral district of the North-West of Madawaska — Restigouche.
Valcourt is often known for a motorcycle accident serious, in which he lost his right eye. After losing the 1993 election, Valcourt served as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in New Brunswick.
Harper will then move to Fredericton, New Brunswick a venue that the Conservatives fought away from the Liberals in 2008.
Jack Layton, new democratic party leader will spend the day in Ontario, including a campaign event in the counties of Essex and the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario hotel meeting.
Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe meeting with the local media in Farnham, Que., Wednesday morning, followed by a visit to a centre of textile in Saint-Hyacinthe and Drummondville plant visit. It encapsulates the day with a rally in Quebec City in the evening.
Green party leader Elizabeth may heads back to the Colombia British Columbia, where she is fighting against conservative incumbent Gary Lunn in the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands.
May meet with the citizens on issues relating to disability in Saanich and attend a Chamber of commerce candidates gathered in Sidney, in the evening.
Ignatieff said in an exclusive interview with CBC News Tuesday, that he would be willing to form a Government if the Conservative Party won the most seats in the election but failed to win the confidence of Parliament.
In the interview with Peter Mansbridge, CBC, Ignatieff said that he would try to form a Government if called by the Governor General.
It is the nearest Ignatieff came to describe how he could become Prime Minister since his first day of the campaign to renounce a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.
Harper said that ignatieff finally admits that he is open to try to become Prime Minister, with the support of the NDP and the Bloc.
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