Leaders fan out across Canada in 2nd weekend of election – National [Video]

Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C., where he is set to make an announcement on cutting bureaucratic red tape, while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Atlantic Canada, where he promised to ensure all Canadians have access to a family doctor by 2030.

Singh made the announcement in St. John’s in the morning, saying an NDP government would offer an additional one per cent in Canada Health Transfer funding to provinces that guarantee access to a family doctor.

Meanwhile, Poilievre is scheduled to hold a press conference in Osoyoos, B.C. at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time. He is set to promise to cut bureaucratic red tape by 25 per cent in two years.

The plan for what he calls a “two-for-one” law would mandate two regulations be repealed for every …