Prime Minister Justin Trudeau swung by Port Coquitlam Friday, Oct. 11, on a whirlwind schedule that brought him from Ottawa through Surrey, PoCo and into Burnaby for an evening rally.
The Liberal candidate stepped off his campaign bus around 5 p.m. greeted by Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam Liberal MP Ron McKinnon and Port Moody-Coquitlam Liberal candidate Sara Badiei.
The visit was largely contained to dozens of quick handshakes, quiet side conversations with supporters and a lot of selfies.
As Trudeau left to board his campaign bus en route to a rally in Burnaby this evening, a single protestor appeared bearing a sign. "PROPAGANDA + GREED = PIPELINES," it read.
This is not the first time Trudeau has visited the Tri-Cities this year. He has paid visits to Badiei’s campaign team and showed up in an unannounced visit to Pinetree secondary school — where he used to work as a teacher — in May.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer have also recently visited the Tri-Cities, an area that encompasses two ridings and is expected to be battlegrounds in the upcoming Oct. 21 election.
According to CBC’s Poll Tracker, which aggregates national polling data from a variety of sources, the Conservatives and Liberals remain neck and neck, each with about 32% of the vote. The NDP have seen a slight bump in the polls, putting them at just over 15% support, while the Greens sit just shy of 10%.
