Millions of Canadians are expected to make their ballot papers in a crucial choice today, who will decide who will lead the country through a trade battle with the United States.
The 36-day campaign was remarkable for the leading competitors: liberal guide Mark Carney and conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
A few months ago, polls suggested that PILIEVRE guaranteed the majority government, which he had been waiting for a long time, after the Canadians were convicted of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Then Trudeau’s resignation came at the beginning of January, the trade war of US President Donald Trump and persistent resistance via Canada to the 51st state – turned the political script.
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After Trump announced, brought in a break and then attacked devastating tariffs for Canadian goods again, the campaign was largely a race about who controls Canada best through global uncertainty.
During the entire dream between the two leading parties in the last route, surveys indicate that the race must lose the liberal party.
According to the CBC survey tracker, the liberals keep an advantage in the seat in the headquarters in Ontario and Quebec as well as in BC and Atlantic Canada and are preferred to win most of the seats.
But it is anything but a completed deal and how the managers and their teams have repeated during the entire campaign: the only survey that counts is on election day.
Carney focuses on Trump
Carney tried to define himself as a constant, mature guide who best deals with the unpredictable president and builds up a new economic and security -relevant relationship.
During his time as governor of the Bank of Canada, the freshly shaped leader of the country during the global financial crisis in 2008 and the head of the Bank of England during the Brexit years as proof that the Canadians should trust him to control the country’s economy through turbulent times.
In one of his repeated campaign speeches, Carney argued that “Trump tries to break us so that America can have us.”
“And that will never happen,” he often said masses that they gathered to hear the political newcomer to speak.
Carney has had a vertebral storm in 2025.
Carney’s greatest weakness that goes into the campaign was expected to be his shaky French, which he rated six out of 10, but he came from the French debate and an always important interview with the popular show Everyone talks about it relatively intact.
His campaign hit some hooks. He was accused last week not to tell the whole truth about his conversation with Trump after he was revealed that the president became the 51st state on the call. Carney had said immediately after the call that Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty.
It is unclear whether the voters see it or whether this affects their choice.
The last day of the campaign is usually full of excitement, as the parties try to build up the final dynamics and convey their message. Sunday, however, was a tragedy after a car ramming at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver, in which 11 dead and more than 20 were injured.
The dark end of the campaign either had most managers canceled events or moved to their schedules to express condolences to the families.
While Carney’s last thrust was weakened, he met competitive areas such as Saskatoon and Edmonton, a sign that his campaign is confident in the voice on Monday.
Poilievre urges change
Poilievre argued that the choice was on a word: change.
In the past five weeks, the conservative argued that Carney has been an expansion of the past 10 years of liberal rule, which routinely indicates Carney’s position as Trudeau’s business advisor as evidence.
“After the lost liberal decade of increasing crime, chaos, drugs and the disorder, we cannot risk a fourth liberal term. We have to reverse the guidelines that brought us into this chaos,” he said on Sunday with a packed rally in Oakville, ont.
Poilievre spent part of the last week to collect its base with stops in relatively safe regions in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Then he turned to the greater Toronto, where the winner of Sitting is of crucial importance for a conservative victory. His last stop Sunday was aimed at Carleton in his Ottawa riding.
Poilievre has represented riding since 2004 and took over the management of the conservative party in 2022. Throughout the campaign, he turned to his own story, born to a youthful mother and adopted by teachers, as an example of what is possible in this country while he was broken through the “promise” of Canada.
Piilievre has known for his combative political style and has tried to offer a quieter – more smiley – image recently. He has managed to attract a level of support that has no longer been seen since Stephen Harper’s majority victory, but has observed the over 20 points of his party in the surveys in the surveys when NDP, Bloc and Green voters turn to the liberals of Carney.
Poilievre was criticized that he was too slow to relax from the election box questions he wanted to fight – the carbon tax, affordability and Trudeau’s unpleasantness – Trump’s trade war and revitalized Canadian patriotism.
He defended his approach and argues that Canadians share his concerns about the real estate crisis and illegal drugs.
“I will not stop talking about these problems that go ahead of Donald Trump, and Donald Trump will survive if we don’t remedy them,” the leader argumented.
Singh says he is fighting for Canadians
After the campaign is so closely framed near Trump, the other two main parties sometimes pressed out of the conversation.
According to the Poll tracker, voters could suffer significant loss of seating on Monday evening.
Singh, who owns his third campaign as a leader, has been determined by questions about the poor surveys of the NDP and its future since the start of the campaign.
He pushed back and argued that sending NDP MPs to the House of Commons in a minority government will keep the next government in chess and “improve people’s lives”.
On Friday he was on his decision not to trigger a federal election earlier, even after the crack The delivery and confidence agreement increases He had signed liberals at the Trudeau.
“I could not endure the idea of Pierre Poilievre and the conservatives that form a majority government,” said Singh.
“I knew it would be bad because of their cuts due to the division they wanted.”
Singh quickly points out that his contract with Trudeau has caused the liberals to involve pharmacare, and a dental care programs, guidelines that have been looking for new Democrats for years.
Singh spent the last days of the campaign to provide the orange support in the Border City of Windsor, Ontario, and then in British Columbia, as the party wants to keep the official party status.
The Bloc leader is the best for Quebec
The head of Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet, also worked on keeping the balance of power in the house, with his home province again proving to be an important battlefield for the decision of the final result. The separatist party only leads candidates in Quebec and its mandate has long been a voice for quebecer in Ottawa.
In the last days of the campaign, Blanchet has controversial when he served his role as in a “foreign parliament” and Canada “called an artificial country with very little meaning”.
“This nation doesn’t belong to me,” he said.
Surveys indicate that the Green Party has the risk of being wiped out by Canada’s election card, but co-director Elizabeth May said that she was confident that the Greens could not only grow her two seats in the lower house, but but can grow.
The first results are expected to drop in the Atlantic provinces shortly after 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The majority of the votes are counted by Ontario and Quebec after 9:30 p.m. The last tranche of votes comes from British Columbia and Yukon from 10 p.m.
You can check when the polling stations in your region close here.
According to the Canada elections, around 7.3 million Canadians already voted on surveys.
You can view the special election report from CBC from 6:30 p.m.
