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Leading in polls to become Canada’s next prime minister, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau kicked off the last few days of his campaign with a whistle-stop tour across the country warning his supporters not to be complacent ahead of the Oct. 19 vote.

Trudeau spoke Saturday morning in Halifax, Nova Scotia to a crowd of a few hundred in a packed hotel conference room. He flew to Saint John, New Brunswick for an afternoon rally, before heading to campaign events in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba later today. He will end his campaign in Montreal on Monday.

“We’re not there yet,” Trudeau told the cheering crowd in Halifax. “This election is going to be a close election.”

Trudeau, the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, entered the race in August in third place, but has taken a lead in recent weeks that has made him the front-runner. Canadian polling aggregator ThreeHundredEight.com is predicting the Liberals will win a plurality of seats, while falling short of a majority.

A Leger Marketing poll taken this week found Trudeau’s Liberals at 38 percent nationally, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives at 30 percent and the New Democratic Party at 22 percent. An Angus Reid Institute poll showed a narrower margin nationally, with the Liberals at 35 percent, the Conservatives at 31 percent and the NDP at 22 percent. Nanos Research found the Liberals at 37 percent, followed by the Conservatives at 31 percent and the NDP at 23 percent.

Harper, who has spent the last two days in Quebec and New Brunswick, will hold a rally in Toronto later today, before heading to western Canada. He will end his campaign in Calgary.

Trudeau’s polling strength hasn’t wooed the country’s two national newspapers. The National Post Saturday endorsed the Conservatives, citing Harper’s record. The Globe and Mail took an unusual approach of endorsing the Conservatives but not Harper.