Canada on the Brink of an Election Speakeasy News [Video]

When Justin Trudeau resigned as Canadian Prime Minister on 6 January, he was hoping to give the Liberal Party a chance of winning the election that had to be held by 20 October. But since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Liberal Party has leapt up in opinion polls. Now the newly chosen Prime Minster Mark Carney is expected to hold a snap election to try to benefit from that new popularity.

Since 2019, Trudeau had been governing with a minority government and by January was 20 points behind in the opinion polls. But recent polling puts the Liberals neck and neck with Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party.

Mark Carney was sworn in as Prime Minister on 14 March, after being elected leader of the Liberal party with a landslide 85.9% of members’ votes. Carney is not an elected politician but has long experience of public service, as governor of both the Bank …