Canada election 2025: Polls open in Canada after Trump and tariffs dominate election marketing campaign

Jenna Moon
Reside web page editor (and Canadian)

It’s election day in Canada – and the primary federal marketing campaign in
a decade that I haven’t adopted from my hometown of Toronto.

In truth, I’m technically on vacation as we speak, so I’ll be watching
the day unfold alongside different BBC readers by our digital and tv
protection.

Fortunately, my colleagues are stationed across the nation – from
Montreal to Ottawa to Vancouver Island – to deliver us the newest information and
evaluation all day.

It is a uniquely compelling election. Six months in the past, I’d have
informed you with close to certainty that Ottawa could be welcoming a Conservative
authorities helmed by Pierre Poilievre after
years of worsening public sentiment in direction of former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

However then US President Donald
Trump took workplace and the truth of what his second time period would possibly imply
for Canada set in. Now, tariffs are biting Canadian industries, particularly
automakers and metal producers.

The specter of annexation or changing into the “51st state”, in the meantime, is not possible for Canadians to disregard. They’re ditching US-made items in droves and are cancelling journeys south
of the border.

An election anticipated to be a referendum on nearly 10 years of
Liberal governance is now firmly centred on who can finest stand as much as Trump.

Voting additionally comes after the assault in Vancouver on the weekend the place a automotive was pushed right into a avenue pageant , killing a minimum of 11 individuals, together with a five-year-old woman.

Polling exhibits that Poilievre’s Conservatives are in a useless warmth
with the Liberals – now headed by Mark
Carney following Trudeau’s resignation in January.

How Canada votes will form the nation’s newly strained
relationship with its closest neighbour and ally. I’ll be following intently. I
hope you be part of us.