With wide-ranging platform, Liberals aim to shore up support on affordability

The platform covered promises of support to nearly every segment of society except the wealthy, writes columnist Les Whittington.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, attempting to blunt the Conservatives' message that their government would make life more affordable, sought to link Andrew Scheer to Ontario Premier Doug Ford's cuts to education, health care, and environmental protection regulations.
The Liberals tried Sunday to build an advantage on the central election issue of affordability by announcing a wide array of tax and spending measures that would, on balance, run up the federal budget deficit while providing more government support to the middle class...

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