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Trudeau Stops In Welland For Labour Day Speech

Talks to workers at Valbruna ASW Inc.

With less than two weeks to go before Election Day on September 20th, all three leaders spent the day in vote-rich Ontario.

During a stop in Welland yesterday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau he promised to expand the hiring and worker support programs his government introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A small group of protestors showed up at the factory holding signs and shouting profanities.

At a weekend stop in London, protestors threw gravel at Trudeau as he boarded his campaign bus.

He later told reporters he was grazed by the rocks.

In Ottawa, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole repeated a promise to double the Canada Workers Benefit and the disability supplement.

The N-D-P's Jagmeet Singh was in Hamilton, committing to $10 a day universal child care, higher minimum wage and paid sick leave. 

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