How will the U.S. election affect Canada? [Video]

As we move closer to the U.S. election, CTVNews.ca will be examining the relationship between Canada and the U.S. in a series of features.

We may be on different timelines, but Canadians and our neighbours to the south are saying the same thing this October:

The election is coming.

On the far side of the border, early voting has begun, in earnest, ahead of a climactic showdown between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former Republican president Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Canadians are, at most, roughly one year away from their next trip to the polls as our current government’s October 2025 expiry date approaches — if parliament doesn’t dissolve early, that is.

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The latest Nanos ballot tracking shows Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party commanding a roughly 20-point leadon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP; what pollster Nik Nanos has …