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RSS FeedsFederal election will launch on Wednesday
(The Star Books)

 
 

10 september 2019 20:00:14

 
Federal election will launch on Wednesday
(The Star Books)
 


OTTAWA—The federal election campaign will officially get underway Wednesday.A summer of politicking — with social media ads, television spots, speeches and a bucketful of spending announcements by cabinet ministers — has set the stage for the campaign that will begin for the Oct. 21 election.The slogans are ready, stump speeches crafted and war rooms staffed up. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit with Governor General Julie Payette at Rideau Hall Wednesday to set in motion the process to dissolve Parliament and launch the election.The election call had been expected last weekend but was delayed as tropical storm Dorian swept through Atlantic Canada. Trudeau was scheduled to be in Halifax Tuesday along with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Bernadette Jordan, the minister of rural economic development, for a briefing on relief efforts. With the cleanup of fallen trees and debris underway and power being restored, the Liberals have decided on a mid-week election call, ahead of the Sunday deadline.The campaigns by the party leaders will attract the spotlight. But the election will ultimately be decided on the ground, in Canada’s 338 ridings, stretching from Courtenay-Alberni to St. John’s East, the sprawling northern ridings — Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are each a single riding — and crowded downtown electoral districts in Vancouver and Toronto.It could be a bitter campaign, as was seen Monday as Liberal and Conservative loyalists traded social media barbs over the upbringing of their respective leaders. Conservatives highlighted Trudeau’s privileged past while Liberals mocked efforts to paint Andrew Scheer’s upbringing as modestly middle-class. It was a taste of pointed political tactics yet to come.But for everyday Canadians, their concerns are certain to centre on pocketbook worries. While Canada’s economy is performing well — the unemploy ...


 
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