Liberals, Tories slug it out on last day of Canada election

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival Andrew Scheer slugged it out Sunday on the last day of a rancorous election campaign.

With Canadians going to the polls on Monday, the Liberals and Tories went into the home stretch in a dead heat, each with about 31-32 percent support after 40 days of mudslinging.

Pollsters are predicting a minority government will result -- either Liberal or Conservative -- as the smaller New Democratic Party (NDP), Green Party and Bloc Quebecois continued to chip away at the frontrunners' lead.

Their voices hoarse, Trudeau and Scheer made last desperate pitches to undecided voters over the weekend in key battlegrounds in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec provinces.

"We need a strong progressive government that will unite Canadians and fight climate change, not a progressive opposition," Trudeau told a rally in a suburb of Vancouver after whistle-stops in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta.

"We need to unite as citizens. We need to unite as a planet," he said.

Scheer, also criss-crossing the country over the weekend, accused the Liberals of being spendthrift, saying late Saturday: "Justin Trudeau has made it clear he will pay any price to stay in power and he will use your money to do it."
"And that's what we do as Liberals."