WINNIPEG — With less than a month left before Canadians hit the polls to choose their next prime minister, Stephen Harper made his second campaign stop in Winnipeg Tuesday morning.
Harper was joined by three Conservative candidates at Bison Transport on Wellington Avenue starting at 8:40 a.m.
One of the candidates in attendance was Lawrence Toet who won Elmwood-Transcona in 2011 by a narrow margin.
This year, Daniel Blaikie, the son of longtime MP Bill Blaikie, will try to take the riding back for the NDP.
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Another Conservative there will be Francois Catellier who is also in a tight race to hold onto St. Boniface – St. Vital.
Catellier is competing with Liberal candidate Dan Vandal and Erin Selby of the NDP in this election.
Allie Szarkiewicz also joined, looking to win Winnipeg Centre for the Conservatives while NDP Pat Martin and Liberal Robert Falcon-Ouellette are locked in a heated race for the riding.
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According to a recent Ipsos poll for Global News, in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the Conservatives hold the top spot at 44 per cent ahead of the NDP who were at 34 per cent and the Liberals are at 21 per cent.
The last time Harper was in Winnipeg was August, just over a week after he launched the longest, most expensive federal election campaign in Canadian history.
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