Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
The Liberal government is "considering" reinstating consumer incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, according to anonymous "sources with knowledge of the plans" quoted by the CBC. The Liberals promised in their 2025 election platform to "look at ways to reintroduce" the $5,000 rebate for EV purchases that was suspended more than a year ago, but have since gone quiet about the policy. It comes as the Liberals are under immense pressure from, among others, the auto industry and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, to abandon their EV sales mandate, which will fine firms that sell any non-EVs starting in 2035.
Ottawa considers reviving EV incentives as it finalizes its auto strategy: sources. No decision yet on future of the EV sales mandate, sources say, @AshleyBurkeCBC & @CBCDavid report https://t.co/pIkwBuwVQw
— National Newswatch (@natnewswatch) February 3, 2026
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The Liberals are 15 points ahead of the Conservatives, according to a new poll from Mainstreet Research. The survey puts Mark Carney's party on 51 per cent, with Pierre Poilievre's at 36 per cent. The "surge" in Liberal support, the pollster said, was "largely driven by a shift among voters under 35 who the Conservatives have led among for the past few years." The cause? Carney's Davos speech, as well as hostility to Donald Trump, Mainstreet CEO Quito Maggi reckons.
Latest Mainstreet Poll modelled out
— Charestiste🇨🇦🍁 (@RealAlbanianPat) February 3, 2026
🔴LPC: 237 seats (+68)
🔵CPC: 85 seats (-59)
⚜️BQ: 19 seats (-3)
🟢GPC: 2 seats (+1)
🟠NDP: 0 seats (-7)
🔴Liberal Majority Government
(+/- change from 2025 election)
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A Calgary man has been found guilty of breaking and entering after tunnelling into his upstairs neighbour's apartment. Ben Maize, 47, went into his female neighbour's apartment and touched her shower curtain and lingerie, according to the judge. The woman said she returned home one day to find her apartment locked from the inside.
City man who tunneled into upstairs neighbour's apartment guilty of break and enter, judge finds #yyc https://t.co/DQ3Ul0A47r pic.twitter.com/Hg78l6yS9q
— Calgary Herald (@calgaryherald) February 3, 2026
Former prime ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chrétien sat down for a friendly chat in Ottawa on Monday, with the duo discussing history, politics and geography. Chrétien denounced both Quebec and Alberta separatism, emphasizing that there are vastly more French-speakers in Quebec today than before the British conquest of New France; Harper, meanwhile, said there's "no reason why this country should not be as nationalistic as anyone else." Both men were well received by the audience, though Chrétien succeeded in silencing the room when he declared that Canadians "treated the natives better than the Americans ... we never sent the army to kill them." He added: "We sent some missionaries who wanted to take them to heaven and it was a controversy, apparently."
The Liberal government gave more cash to Meta – the owner of Facebook and Instagram – in 2024-25 than in the previous year, according to quietly released data. The federal government nearly tripled the amount of taxpayer cash it paid to the firm, increasing from $476,000 to $1.4 million, after it abandoned a loose boycott of the firm. That's despite the governing Liberals condemning Meta as an irresponsible corporate actor whose reckless behaviour imperils democracy. Canadians, meanwhile, remain unable to see news stories on Meta platforms as a consequence of the Liberal Party's hostility to Meta – a hostility that does not, however, prevent them from throwing millions of dollars at the company, both their own and taxpayers'.
