OTTAWA — New fundraising figures show the Liberal Party of Canada has shrunk its fundraising gap with the Conservative Party of Canada, lagging by just $1.4 million in the last quarter. That’s the closest the two parties have been since Pierre Poilievre became Conservative leader.

Second-quarter fundraising reports filed with Elections Canada show Poilievre’s Conservatives raked in $9 million, while Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals raised $7.6 million during the same period. The period, from April to June, includes most of the federal election campaign that ran from March 23 to April 28, with the Liberals eventually winning a minority government.

“Grassroots Liberals’ record-breaking support this year helped deliver our largest vote share since 1980 in the last election, with Mark C

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