Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre made a stop at a Surrey grocery store early Easter Sunday morning, pledging to "axe the inflation tax" and continuing to attack Liberal leader Mark Carney as the federal election campaign enters its final week.

With Surrey and other Metro Vancouver candidates in attendance, Poilievre's stop took aim at inflation and the high cost of living. 

"Inflation is a silent thief, robbing you of your money bit by bit," he said in a campaign press release. "It drives food prices up, forcing families and seniors to go hungry. It's doubled housing costs in just 10 years, pricing an entire generation out of a home. You've been pinching your pennies long enough, it's time for the government to start pinching its pennies."

Poilievre said a Conservative government would "axe the inflation tax" and end Liberal "overspending." He promised a Conservative government would reduce spending on consultants by $10 billion annually and repeated the Conservatives' plans to repeal what they call "anti-development laws," remove the cap on energy production, get rid of the industrial carbon tax and fast-track 10 priority resource projects.

Poilievre attacked the promises in the Liberals' costed platform, taking aim at the $130 billion in spending outlined in it. The Conservative Party press release also takes aim at Carney's performance as governor of the Bank of England.

"Mark Carney is even more costly than Justin Trudeau," Poilievre told the crowd in Surrey.

The Conservatives have not yet released a costed platform, as advance voting continues through Easter Sunday and Monday.

Both the Liberals under Carney and the NDP under Jagmeet Singh released their costed platforms on Saturday, April 19.