7 million Canadians voted before all party platforms were out. Do platforms still matter? [Video]

Before the Conservatives unveiled their election platform on Tuesday — the last platform to be released by the main federal parties — more than seven million Canadians had already voted.

That suggests a significant chunk of the Canadian public felt they didn’t need to compare the costed party platforms before casting a vote. But it also calls into question the relevance of such documents.

“The fact that all the key parties waited very late in the campaign to put forward their platform, I think, gives us an indication that they didn’t think this would be what voters would be very interested about,” said Sébastien Dallaire, executive vice-president of Eastern Canada for …