The polls opened in Canada on Monday morning after a turbulent electoral season in which the rulers have tried to make President Donald Trump the main problem of the race, while conservatives sacrifice a deviation of what they call the “lost liberal decade.”
The Canadian general election will ask voters to choose among liberals, conservatives and several smaller games, the highlight of the new left -wing democrats (NDP). This election is the first for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who had never campaigned or hero a public office when the liberals crowned his leader in a closed election in March. With a history of finance, Carney had served as president of the banks of Canada and England before entry to politics and more recently occupied a high position in the finance firm Brookfield Asset Management.
With the hope of replacing it, it is the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who has struggled to convince the voters that Carney would not implement any different policy of his highly unpopular predecessor Justin Trudeau, Whognment for a decade Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Forced Form Forcedment Forment Forment Forment The then elected president Donald Trump at the end of 2024.
The election was promoted by Trudeau’s resignation in January, which in turn occurred after his closest political ally, former vice -first minister Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the disgust for Trump’s Trump’s management. Freeland then tried to use his resignation to replace Trudeau at the head of the Liberal Party, but lost in a landslide against Carney.
At the time of Trudeau’s resignation, the conservatives experienced a mass increase in the support of the vote. At its peak, the conservatives were 26 points ahead of the liberals, defeating the Liberal Party and the combined NDP. Until Monday, the average CBC surveys shows that liberals cling to a thin leadership about conservatives, with 42.8 percent to 39.2 percent of conservatives. The NDP voting average remained just above eight percent, a significant support of support after Trudeau’s resignation.
“The conservatives are on their way to ending their greatest vote since 2011, but it is unlikely that it is enough as former supporters of the Québécois block and the new Democrats have gone to the liberals,” the CBC observed.
Even if the conservatives lose, their support has increased significantly under Poilievre with a demographic group: Canada’s youth. Reuters observed on Saturday that young users of the application of Chinese social networks Tiktok have been flooding the platform with videos of them trying to convince their parents to vote conservatives for their future. Recently, a survey, from the Nanos firm, found that almost half of the voters from 18 to 24 years, 49.3 percent, support Pailievre, almost 20 percent more than they supported the liberals.
“I have lived the struggle to try to obtain groceries, pay their bills and try to save and start a family,” one of those voters told Reuters, identified as Joshua Dwyer, 24. “It doesn’t work under the liberal government. We have tried for 10 years and it doesn’t work.”
The Canadians received an early voting period last weekend that resulted in record participation; 7.3 million Canadians chose to vote early, according to the electoral authority of the country. Observers expect high participation and most surveys indicate that liberals will continue to hold on to power – An impressive change of his disastrous loss of support that spent the last days of the Trudeau Prime Minister.
Liberals have campaigned to a large extent to convince Canadians that Trump is the greatest threat to their sovereignty – Chinese interference reports do not take into account elections in favor of Carney and the Chinese Communist Party that admits to having killed multiple Canadian citizens this year for doubtful drug positions. Carney himself visited Beijing more recently representing Brookfield in October, supporting more foreign investment in the repressive and genocidal state, according to Chinese state media. Carney also appeared in photos with individuals supposedly linked to the Department of Labor of the United Front of China, his global influence agency, but denied knowing people in the photos.
China never materialized in an important campaign problem, partly as a result that Pailievre does not emphasize the threat it represents for Canada. That created an opportunity for Carney to campaign against Trump, affirming in the debates that he was the only leader hard enough to properly challenge Trump’s statements of whitening to annex the country. In the absence of much of Trump’s speech in Canada is the fact that Trump himself supported Carney for Prime Minister in an interview in March, stating that Pailievre was not “stupidly any friend of mine” and “is more than treating, Active, with a liberal.”
Carney returned to the supposed threat of Trump’s annexation and the increase in tariffs. – Most of which Trump stopped for Canada at the time of publication – In his final attempt to voters, emphasizing his experience in finance as essential to build the Canadian economy.
Poilievre, on the contrary, sacrificed voters a message of change, focusing on Canada’s bad history, medical care, housing costs and quality of life under Trudeau.
In an interview prior to the final selection, Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the NDP, urged voters to choose their party to prevent Carney from having total power in Parliament.
“Mathematics are not there for conservatives,” Singh told Toronto star. “People have chosen and this is the way they go.
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