Canada election: Poilievre releases costed platform with 6 days left in campaign [Video]

The Conservative platform includes relatively few surprises in terms of policies.

Poilievre will spend big on cutting income taxes, scrapping the capital gains inclusion rate tax hike and doing away with the GST on new homes. Like in Carney’s budget, another major budget line item is a sizable increase in military spending — with the Conservatives projecting $17 billion more will be spent on the armed forces over the next four years.

There are a few new policies in this platform — Poilievre is promising to pursue a CANZUK free trade and mobility agreement with the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

He’s promising to ban “drug dens” — his name for safe consumption sites — within 500 metres of schools, parks and seniors’ homes.

The platform also calls for a greater focus on Canadian history, with a promise to erect new monuments honouring veterans who served in the Second World …