6 Major Federal Parties · Verified First-Person Leader Statements
Mark Carney (Prime Minister)
Governing party in the 45th Canadian Parliament (169 MPs)
National unity & governance
Let's put an end to the division and anger of the past. We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone.
Canada-U.S. relations & sovereignty
When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economy and security relationship between two sovereign nations.
Pierre Poilievre
His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons (141 MPs)
Trade & economic sovereignty
My message to the president is this: Canada will fight back. We will defend our people and our economy, and we will put Canada first.
Housing & red tape
We need to build homes faster than ever, and that means removing the bureaucracy, the red tape, the taxes and the gatekeepers, and I will make it happen.
Yves-François Blanchet
Third-largest party in the House of Commons, representing ridings in Quebec (22 MPs)
Minority Parliament & collaboration
Canada will pick Mark Carney as its prime minister. I can change nothing from that, even if there were 45 MPs from the Bloc. I can change nothing from that. So we have to collaborate.
Campaign strategy in Quebec
I'm not playing defence — that's your analysis, not mine.
Don Davies (Interim Leader); Jagmeet Singh (2017–2025 Leader)
Federal social-democratic caucus in the House of Commons (7 MPs)
Federal budget & public services
We can't accept an austerity approach.
Parliamentary confidence votes
We're going to wait and see what the budget says.
Elizabeth May
Represented in the House of Commons by the Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands (1 MP)
Electoral reform & climate action
I would never have done the kind of deal that Jagmeet Singh did with Justin Trudeau, which ignored fair voting and ignored climate.
Party renewal & representation
We obviously need to rebuild, and we need to fundraise and we need to make sure we keep moving forward.
Maxime Bernier
Registered federal political party contesting ridings nationwide
2025 election & Canadian sovereignty
For me, that election was not a traditional election, if I may express myself like that. It was a referendum on the 51st state.
Party democracy & leadership review
It's very important for the democracy in our party. And depending on the result, I will stay or I will leave, but we'll see.
For me, that election was not a traditional election, if I may express myself like that. It was a referendum on the 51st state.
I'm not playing defence — that's your analysis, not mine.
You can be respectful and firm and I believe we have to be both.
When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economy and security relationship between two sovereign nations.
I won't let anyone in this election tell Canadians that the only way to beat Donald Trump is to become more like his version of the United States.
The best way we can deal with this crisis is to build our strength here at home. And help people who will be hit hardest by these tariffs.
I read Newton. What goes up goes down.
I would never have done the kind of deal that Jagmeet Singh did with Justin Trudeau, which ignored fair voting and ignored climate.
We can't accept an austerity approach.
We need to build homes faster than ever, and that means removing the bureaucracy, the red tape, the taxes and the gatekeepers, and I will make it happen.
We believe that whoever you are, whether you were born here or you came here, whatever the colour of your skin, whoever you love or what pronouns you use, however you worship or what you believe, you belong.
Canada will pick Mark Carney as its prime minister. I can change nothing from that, even if there were 45 MPs from the Bloc. I can change nothing from that. So we have to collaborate.
Let's put an end to the division and anger of the past. We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone.
But we are legitimately one of the few parties in opposition that retained the seat of the leader, which is not nothing.
We're going to wait and see what the budget says.
It's very important for the democracy in our party. And depending on the result, I will stay or I will leave, but we'll see.
We obviously need to rebuild, and we need to fundraise and we need to make sure we keep moving forward.
My message to the president is this: Canada will fight back. We will defend our people and our economy, and we will put Canada first.
It will be our full knowledge that we have many, many other options to build prosperity for all Canadians.
I want you to know that I will fight for you. I will fight for your job, I will fight for your family, I will fight for your chance at owning and paying off a home and I will fight for your retirement. And I will fight to put Canada first.