Election 2025

For the Liberals to portray themselves as “Team Canada” in this federal election displays a level of shameless hypocrisy, given how they sneered at Canadians during their decade in power.

Led by a self-righteous and hypocritical Justin Trudeau — who took every opportunity to bash Canada, Canadians, our institutions and history — they are in no position now to don the mantle of ginned up patriots because they have a new leader in Mark Carney and an election ad with Mike Myers touting their mutual love for Canada.

The ballot question… what it is that people are thinking about, when they vote…

The conventional wisdom is that it must be who — Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre — will best be able to protect Canada against US President Donald Trump.

After a long stretch of dominance in the polls, the Conservative Party of Canada now finds itself the potential underdog. Mark Carney, Canada’s newly appointed (but not yet elected) prime minister is kiting his international credentials, shaking hands with the king and a Europe keen on stability.

This dramatic shift in voter sentiment sparks lively banter among political pollsters. Nik Nanos predicts the upcoming federal election in Canada between the Liberals and the Conservatives will be akin to a “knife fight in a telephone booth.” Others speculate on the duration of leadership honeymoons; they don’t last forever but sometimes they last long enough.

In a little more than five weeks, either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre will be the prime minister of Canada.

But it is abundantly clear that this election campaign is more than a faceoff between the Liberal and Conservative leaders.

It’s also going to be a tug of war between change and stability — and which one of those forces is ultimately most important to Canadians at this tumultuous time for the country.

Let’s say, if just for the sake of argument, that the outcome of the federal election depends on how the vote goes in Ontario.

Because that’s the way it usually goes, and nothing in the dynamics of this campaign suggests there’s a compelling reason to expect it to be different. Conservative Leder Pierre Poilievre can sweep all of Alberta and the best he’ll pick up is two Liberal seats. Ontario has 74 Liberals, more than three times the total for all of western Canada. That being the case, Poilievre has considerable work to do to if he wants the province to help make him prime minister.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign on Sunday at the Museum of History across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill, arguing that his party is in the race to “make a change” from the Liberal status quo.

Poilievre beat Prime Minister Mark Carney to the punch, speaking half an hour before Carney was scheduled to ask Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament and send Canadians to the polls next month.

Donald Trump’s shadow is looming large over Canada’s general election.

Mark Carney, the new Canadian prime minister, and his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre are in the race of their lives – not just against each other, but to create as much distance between themselves and the US president as possible.

Since Mr Trump entered the White House in January and took an increasingly belligerent stance on the US’ northern neighbour, he has turned Canadian politics on his head.

The RCMP say they expect more “stalking and harassment” threats to politicians during the upcoming election, according to a recent report.

The report from the RCMP Protective Behavioural Analysis Unit looks at the growing number of threats to the safety of public figures, measures law enforcement has taken, as well as the number of public figures who are asking for protection.