Canadians will go to the polls on April 28. The 36-day campaign is expected to focus on how federal party leaders will take on the U.S. trade war and threats to Canadian sovereignty.
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The writ has been dropped. Just over a week into his new role, Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a federal election for April 28th, 2025. The 36-day campaign is the shortest allowable under the law, and no doubt the ongoing tariff war with the Donald Trump’s administration will be the main focus. Carney will run as the Liberal Party candidate in the riding of Nepean (in Ontario for the non-Canadians) which is next door to Carleton, the riding of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.
Poilievre’s Conservatives were widely regarded as being the inevitable majority winners of the 2025 federal election, but with the trifecta of the resignation of Justin Trudeau, the inauguration of Donald Trump, and the instigation of an unwanted, disproportionate trade war by Trump, the Conservatives are slipping in polling by the day, and now Carney’s Liberals are projected to a 48% chance of winning a majority.
