Some voters in Metro Vancouver reported long lineups on the first day of advance voting on Friday.
While general voting day for the federal election is April 28, voters are able to cast their ballot early over four days starting Friday.
Some voters told CBC News on Friday that they were in line for over two hours at a polling station in Vancouver’s West End. Meanwhile, a voter in Langley, B.C., said she waited in the longest line she had seen for advance voting in her life.
“Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come, and a sign of things for change,” said Barb Stoll, who was at Douglas Park Elementary School in the Metro Vancouver suburb.
CBC News reporters in Surrey, B.C., …