Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. April 22nd, 2025

The Conservatives released their fully-costed today, with more than $31 billion in deficits in store for 2025. Pierre Poilievre is promising to cut $23 billion in government spending over the next 4 years, while also projecting $20 billion in revenue gain from counter-tariffs on the United States. Scrapping programs such as clean electricity regulations, on top of the federal Carbon Tax for industries and residents, is another gameplan that the Tories are cooking up. As expected, the Liberals and NDP are taking aim at Poilievre’s ‘phantom numbers’. CTV’s Judy Trinh joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 2. Meantime, a new city report says the demand for childcare in Ottawa has soared by 300 percent. And while the City of Ottawa is responsible for managing the childcare system locally, licenced providers are only meeting three-quarters of the need. We dig deeper with Michel Laflamme, the Executive Director of Aladin Child Care Services.