Electoral campaign starts in Canada for October 21 elections

Although there was a summer loaded with parties that exchanged attacks and even campaign announcements were published, this Wednesday will mark the official start of the contest, when Trudeau visits the governor general, Julie Payette, in this residence of Rideau Hall, in this capital. .The prime minister will ask Payette – who acts as head of state and representative of the British crown – to dissolve the 42nd Parliament and write the corresponding measures.

If the Governor agrees, all pending matters that were not approved both in the House of Commons and in the Senate will perish, as will the legislative committees.

With the formal launch, the fight for votes is expected to intensify; In addition, it will mean that the different forces will be able to spend much more money than allowed by the limits of pre-election expenses.

In fact, Trudeau has already begun to shape the liberal campaign as the option for progress, while Andrew Scheer's conservatives and Jagmeet Singh's new Democrats are focusing their message on fighting or helping 'you' (the voters, the people) get ahead.

The prime minister wants to maintain his majority government and defend the record of the last four years against his opponents; However, polls do not accompany him at all and it is predicted that many of the voters who bet on him in 2015 will now abandon him.

In this context, there is talk of how well the leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May, that of the Quebecois Block, Yves-Francois Blanchet, and that of the Popular Party, Maxime Bernier, will do because they will celebrate the increase in their number of seats in parliament

"It will be five and a half weeks in which the leaders of the different parties at the federal level will tour the country to present themselves, their candidates and their political agendas," observers comment when noticing that this campaign is less than half that of the from 2015 (78 days).

A party needs to win 170 seats for a majority government. At the moment the liberals have 177 seats in the House of Commons, the conservatives 95 and those of the New Democratic Party, 39; the rest of the political forces have less than 10 seats.

In the last four years, liberals passed 88 government laws.

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