Mulcair accuses PM Harper of desperately signing on to a secret trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim partners simply to have something to announce on election campaign trail.
Khalil Ramal is standing tall after bigots defaced his signs, but the Islamophobia unleashed by the niqab row shows no sign of abating as the federal election builds up to its final climax.
"Da jia hao (hello everyone)," Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted stiffly in Mandarin, before naming the Conservatives the "party of Chinese-Canadians."