Original Publish Date » March 23 , 2025
Last Updated » 4 weeks
Highlights »
- Prime Minister Mark Carney asked the Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament.
- Voters will go to the polls on April 28 with a clear ballot box question: Who is best to handle Trump?
- Two Conservative Scandals Brewing on Day One involving Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Conservative MP Jamil Jivani
Political ad » Mike Myers and Mark Carney » “Elbows Up, Canada” ad released last night
Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced Sunday that he has asked Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament and call an election for April 28. Simon accepted
Prime Minister Carney is asking Canadians for a “strong, positive mandate.” to take on President Trump. “We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty. Our response must be to build a strong economy and a more secure Canada,” PM Carney said, referencing Canada’s burgeoning trade war with the U.S.
The threat to Canada’s sovereignty is real » “President Trump claims that Canada isn’t a real country. He wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen,” Carney said outside of Rideau Hall in Ottawa. “We’re over the shock, the shock of the betrayal, but we can never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves. We have to look out for each other.”
PM Carney pledged a 1 per cent reduction in the lowest income tax bracket. The measure would directly benefit more than 22 million Canadians, and save two-income families up to $825 a year.
Asked by reporters about immigration levels, PM Carney said that there was post-pandemic boom and that Canada has “not lived up to the bargain with those people. There’s not adequate housing. Not everyone who came here for an education was getting an education that they would expect.” The Prime Minister said caps to immigration were put in place as a consequence, and those will “remain in place until we’ve expanded housing.”
Prime Minister Carney will spend the next five weeks on the campaign trail building onto the momentum that has been created since he announced his Liberal leadership candidacy was announced two months ago. At the same time, the new politician will be fending off attacks from his biggest political rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
(CP / The Guardian / CityNews / Reuters / Politico / NY Times / Al Jazeera / RTÉ / CNN / Bloomberg / Axios)
(Video » CP / CTV / BBC / Reuters)
Prime Minister Mark Carney to seek seat in Nepean (CP)
Pierre Poilievre campaigns in Ottawa (Video » CPAC)
-
Poilievre asked if he respects Donald Trump (CTV News)
-
Poilievre outlines plan to boost apprenticeships, training for trades workers (CP)
Jagmeet Singh launches NDP election campaign
(Video » CPAC)
Scandals on Day One
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith asked the U.S. Administration Officials to “put things on pause” to help fellow Conservative Pierre Poilievre get elected
There’s an audio recording of Premier Danielle Smith on MAGA affiliated Breitbart, confirming she asked the U.S. “Administration Officials” to “put things on pause” to help Poilevre get elected as PM as she believes he aligns with Trump on many issues and the “new direction of America.” (CTV News)
-
Danielle Smith admits to calling for foreign interference in Canada’s election (Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean)
-
Canadian Premier Danielle Smith: Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting (Breitbart)
-
Premier Smith, one of Pierre Poilievre’s biggest fans, may have just torpedoed his election campaign (National Observer)
-
Conservative Party operatives have asked Conservative MP Jamil Jivani to use back channels with his former Yale roommate — Vice President JD Vance — to talk sense into Trump, according to sources (Toronto Star)
- Conservative MP Jamil Jivani went to Yale Law School with US VP JD Vance, read a Bible verse at his wedding, and has run a fantasy football league with him for the better part of 10 years.
2025 Federal election ballot question is driven by Trump
(Video » CTV)
Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
- Trump believes that the treaty that demarcates the Canada-U.S. border is invalid and that the boundary should be moved. Put simply, he wants to take our land. And the risk of that happening is higher if we pretend it doesn’t exist. (Cascade Institute)
Registration and Voting Processes for Canadians Who Live Abroad (Elections Canada)
Canadian citizens who live abroad may apply to be on the International Register of Electors, which will allow them to vote by mail-in special ballot in federal general elections, by-elections and referendums.
Other Elections News
- Donald Trump upends notions of stability and change as Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre square off (Toronto Star)
- Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi runs for Liberals in ‘most consequential election of our lifetime’ (Global News / CBC)
South Africa’s ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was welcomed at the Cape Town airport by crowds of cheering supporter after being expelled by the Trump Administration.
Rasool was ordered to leave the US after Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused him of being a “race-baiting politician who hates America” and Trump. The veteran anti-Apartheid activist had said Trump’s political movement was white supremacist in nature.
(AFP / Al Jazeera » Video » AFP / DW)
What Else Is Happening
- U.S. Officials to Visit Greenland Amid Trump’s Talk of a Takeover (NY Times)
- The Internet Archive is more relevant than ever (NPR)
- Italy suspends Starlink purchase negotiations with SpaceX amid Musk controversy (Kyiv Independent)
- White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter egg hunt (CNN)
- Jeremy Clarkson taunts ‘idiot’ Elon Musk over Tesla vandalism (Politico)
- Trouble at Tesla and protests against Trump’s tariffs suggest consumer boycotts are starting to bite (The Conversation)
- GOP officials insist Trump can arrest people for protesting (Mother Jones)
