5 things federal party leaders keep getting wrong | CBC News

CBC - 18/04
Sometimes political leaders get it wrong — repeatedly. The CBC News fact-checking team looks at some of the inaccurate claims that leaders have made more than once in this campaign.

In the cut and thrust of an election debate, it's not uncommon for a political party leader to get a number or a fact wrong. But sometimes they repeat those erroneous statements — both on the campaign trail and the debate stage.

The CBC News fact-checking team looked into some of the inaccurate claims that leaders have made more than once in this campaign.

Bill C-69

The claim: On X and during both the French- and English-language debates, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that Bill C-69 blocked 16 projects and billions of dollars of investment.

The facts: Bill C-69, which allowed the federal government to look at how resource development projects could impact climate change, was adopted in 2019. However, many of the projects Poi...
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