Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wrapped up his latest campaign tour through the Lower Mainland with a promise to help Canadians transform their homes into more energy efficient ones in efforts to cut emissions.

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The Liberals unveiled a plan to, if re-elected, help retrofit 1.5 million homes to be more energy efficient, offer interest-free loans up to $40,000 to help pay for retrofits and offer Net Zero Homes Grant up to $5,000 to people who but zero-emissions homes.

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Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pivoted his campaign to the environment while in Jonquiere, Que., announcing a tax credit for homeowners who make energy-saving renovations, following a scathing attack a day earlier by his Liberal opponent, Justin Trudeau.

The 20 per cent refundable tax credit could be worth up to $3,800 annually, he said, as he shot back at Trudeausa国际传媒檚 new promise on Tuesday to achieve zero net carbon emissions in Canada by 2050.

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On Tuesday, Trudeau spent much of his day in the Burnaby South riding sa国际传媒� currently held by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. There he announced promises to cut corporate taxes in half for companies that produce zero-emission technologies as part of a plan to make Canada carbon-neutral by 2050.

Singh made climate-change promises of his own, including pledging to electrify Canadasa国际传媒檚 public-transit fleets by the end of the next decade and to construct a coast-to-coast, clean-energy corridor.

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Trudeau was at a rally in Surrey Centre Tuesday afternoon where Liberal incumbent Randeep Sarai is campaigning for a second term. The riding was created before the last election largely from the now-dissolved riding of Surrey North, which bounced back and forth between the NDP and Liberals for most of its recent history.

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Some 1,000 supporters gathered in the parking lot of Surreysa国际传媒檚 Aria Banquet Hall to see Trudeau run through his stump speech, applauding as he promised to increase Old Age Security and pension survivor benefits, and falling silent as he warned that a Conservative government would mean sa国际传媒渢wice the cuts for you and your family.sa国际传媒�

Trudeau ended his speech with a plea to his supporters to knock doors.

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The third party leader to speak in the Lower Mainland this week, Peoplesa国际传媒檚 Party Leader Maxime Bernier is set to begin his western tour Wednesday morning, first taking part in .

sa国际传媒� with files from The Canadian Press

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