Trudeau promised “sunny ways” following the last election in 2015. While many believe his government has delivered on core promises, it has also faced scandals such as the SNC-Lavalin affair.
A campaign that could start at any time and a debate schedule that is itself the subject of debate intensified pre-election jitters in Ottawa going into the weekend.
The Conservatives' former leader doesn't agree with the current leader's assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA.
People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier says he had nothing to do with the anti-immigration billboards featuring his picture. But the advertising firm that paid for them is linked to a company that hosted a fundraiser for him.
Billboards with Maxime Bernier's face and a slogan advocating against mass immigration cropped up on Friday, August 22, 2019, in several major Canadian cities.
Five party leaders have confirmed they will participate in two major televised election debates in October, the media group producing the events announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.
The man whose position on climate change is at the centre of a controversy over partisan campaign rhetoric weighed in on Monday, August 19, 2019, saying Elections Canada is stifling free speech if environmental groups can't produce ads that describe global warming as a real crisis borne of human behaviour.
Maxime Bernier argued to a crowd of flag-waving, cheering candidates and supporters that not inviting him to take part in the official election debates means excluding the only political party leader who has anything different to say.
Canadian political junkies will be able to access this fall's federal election debates with unprecedented ease thanks in large part to strong media partnerships, the commission responsible for organizing the events said Wednesday as it lifted the veil on plans for the televised campaign confrontations.
A new poll conducted for The Canadian Press seems to show the cloud of the SNC-Lavalin controversy is lifting for the federal Liberals, who now face a closer fight with the Conservatives less than three months to go until the election.
Maxime Bernier says that if he becomes prime minister, his government would slash immigration and refugee numbers, build a fence to block asylum seekers from walking across the border, and end a program that lets immigrants sponsor their families to join them.
On a visit to an agricultural fair in a battleground riding east of Montreal on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer defended his promise to review the Canada Food Guide in order to make the document reflect research put forward by the country's food industry.