Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
Tightening race?
Polls project a Liberal government, but the race has tightened in its final days.
The public broadcaster CBC’s poll aggregator has at various points given the Liberals a seven-to-eight point national lead, but on Friday it put Liberal support at 42.5 percent, with the Tories at 38.7.
A crucial factor that could help the Liberals is the sagging numbers for the left-wing New Democrats and the separatist Bloc Quebecois.
In past elections, stronger support for those parties has curbed Liberal seat tallies in the key provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.
A record 7.3 million of Canada’s 28.9 million eligible voters cast early ballots over the Easter weekend, a 25 percent increase compared to 2021.
Montreal voter Nathalie Tremblay told AFP this election is “definitely more important” than past elections because of “everything that is happening in the United States.”
Simon-Pierre Lepine, 49, told AFP he was worried about “10 more years of backtracking” under the Liberals, who he accused of plunging the country “into a financial hole.”
‘A strange campaign’
For McGill University political scientist Daniel Beland, Conservative efforts to “change the subject of the campaign” away from Trump have largely failed.
Tim Powers, a political analyst, agreed the “strange campaign” full of surprises is not the one the Tories wanted.
They had hoped “there’d be more of a debate around affordability and all of the things that they were scoring points on,” he said, adding Poilievre “envisioned a campaign where Justin Trudeau would be his opponent.”
The winner should be known hours after polls close on Monday.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
