Party leaders campaign in Ontario, B.C. battlegrounds as election day nears [Video]

Party leaders blitzed key ridings in southern Ontario and British Columbia on Saturday with the final vote in the federal election now just two days away.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney took his tour through battleground ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as Windsor, Ont., a city where U.S. President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs have created immense anxiety.

At a news conference at the Seneca College campus in King City, Ont., on Saturday morning, Carney focused his message heavily on protecting Canada from Trump.

“President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us,” Carney said, repeating one of his most frequent campaign statements.

“And well, that will never happen.”

Carney said if Canada unites, “we will win this trade war, and we will build the strongest economy in the G7.”

When asked if that is an overly ambitious reading of what economists expect to happen to the Canadian economy in the …