Canada is moving into fast-forward mode and its new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will call to hold a national election to decide who will lead the country by the end of April, according to a new report.
After I read the report days ago of the bounce that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party received after he stepped down I had a feeling that the election would happen sooner rather than later try to take advantage of the liberal party’s surge and popularity.
The new polling article I wrote just a couple of days ago was right here.
New Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Gets a Boost Before National Election Is Called
So when I read this article right HERE that shows polling since Trudeau has stepped down has tilted into the factor of the liberals once again after Son of Fidel stepped down, I was not shocked.
In January, Canadian pollsters and political pundits struggled to find fresh ways to describe the bleak prospects of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party, musing whether it would be a wipeout of existential proportions, or merely a catastrophic blowout.But fresh polling released by three companies this week shows a stunning reversal of fortunes for the party: newly minted prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are projected to secure a majority government.The outcome has little precedent in Canadian history, reflecting the outsized role played by an unpredictable US president, and it underscores the incentives for Carney to call a snap election in the coming days.On Tuesday, the political analyst Philippe Fournier updated his closely watched website 338Canada, which tracks and aggregates national polls, converting those figures into projected election results.
For the first time, his projection showed the Liberals with a 55% chance of a majority government. In January, the odds stood at less than 1%.
Canadians once again have a parliamentary system, which means national elections must be held at least once every five years, but the party in charge, along with the prime minister who is serving, gets to determine when an election can occur. My understanding of it is that they must hold a national election by November of this year, but they could hold it sooner and schedule it after Parliament reconvenes at the end of this month.
The new report right HERE gives the basic details of how this works.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney is likely to call a national election for 28 April, potentially as soon as this Sunday, multiple news outlets report.
With Canada’s businesses reeling from a trade dispute with the US, Carney – a former two-time central banker – is expected to pitch himself as the candidate best equipped to take on Donald Trump.
The 60-year-old political newcomer took over as leader of the Liberal Party after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down from his nine-year term
The prime minister’s announcement to call an election and request the dissolution of Parliament will kick off a five-week campaign for Carney and his political opponents.
There are a lot of reasons why the sudden decision to hold this election is not the gift that some in the national media in the states would like to believe.
Trudeau was an unpopular leader and his time as Prime Minister needed to come to an end in order to benefit not only the liberal party but the whole country of Canada. Now having done that, the new Prime Minister is using the threat of a trade war with the United States and the talk of Canada being absorbed as the 51st state as a battle cry for Canadian nationalism.
If Trudeau had fought to continue to lead the party the election would have been scheduled to happen anyway by the end of the fall and his fight with Trump would have probably continued to drag the liberal party down. That was probably the best-case scenario for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to become the new leader of the country and reset relations with President Trump and the United States.
Now we get to watch a good old parliamentary election crammed into just a little over a month and see which side comes out on top.
If you did not catch my article on why I think Canada should stay a country and not mess up the electoral college of the United States and how we elect Presidents please click on the link below.
