Liberals will push to 'last bell': Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff says the Liberals will campaign until the "last bell" as they try to rally supporters and win over undecided voters ahead of Monday's federal election.

The Liberal leader is trying to build momentum as several nationalpolls suggest his party is lagging behind both the Conservatives and the NDP.

"Were going to get the vote out and everybodys going to be surprised Monday night," Ignatieff said during a campaign stop Saturday at a farmers market in Guelph, Ont.

"It's not over," Ignatieff added. "I've got to get the base vote of this party out. The base is here, the base has been here since Day One of the campaign."

He said he was proud of the Liberal campaign thus far and saidhis partywould be "campaigning as hard this weekend Saturday and Sunday right to the last bell."

Ignatieff appeared alongside local Liberal candidate Frank Valeriote, who is hoping to hold ontothe seat he won in 2008. The event in Guelph is part of a frantic push this weekend through several Ontario ridings, includingStoney Creek, Oakville, Mississauga and Brampton.

The Liberal leader would not comment on the Toronto Star endorsement of the New Democrats. However, he told reporters he believes many Canadians are still undecided.

"They're not going to be told how to vote by the pollsters, they're not going to be told how to vote by the press, they're not going to be told by the so-called experts," he said.

Before the event, the Liberal leader walked over to a group of people holding Conservative signs and shook their hands, CBC reporter Alison Crawford said.

"I want to welcome Conservative voters here, this isnt like a Harper campaign,"Ignatieff said, referring to reports earlier in the campaign that said students had been barred from a Conservative rally.Harper has since apologized to people who were removed from his party's campaign rallies.

The Liberals held 37 of Ontario's 106 ridings heading into the election, many of them in the Greater Toronto area.