When I traveled around Canada during the 2021 election campaign, the prevailing mood among voters I spoke with was one of ennui. Even some of those involved in many of the campaigns weren’t obviously excited about the election.
That’s certainly not the case this year. Advance polls opened on Friday. At the one near my house in Ottawa, there was an hourlong wait during the morning, and poll workers arranged chairs outside the community center hosting the voting to ease the wait. In Montreal that morning, I saw people going into a Chinese community center to cast ballots just after it had opened for voting.
WOW
We have the price tag for Carney’s new Carbon Tariffs
$500,000,000
Carney is going to slap new carbon tariffs costing half a billion dollars on the items Canadians buy
Why?
Because Carney loves carbon taxes so much, it upsets him when other countries don’t have them pic.twitter.com/2TMtDbVNwO
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) April 19, 2025
New record set as 2 million vote on first day of advance polls: Elections Canada
