What are the pundits saying?

By Staff

April 28th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

Kady O’Malley at iPolitics had this to say this morning.

It’s election day in Canada.

Polls will open for 12 hours on Monday, staggered based on time zone. Most voters in Ontario and Quebec that live in the Eastern Time zone can vote from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Those living in B.C. and the Yukon will be able to vote from  7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific Time.

What’s at stake? A lot, to put it lightly.

Whoever emerges as PM after the vote will lead negotiations on a new economic and security partnership with the U.S., for starters. They will also need to chart a new course for the country amid a global order upended by the Trump administration.

And then, you know, deal with an affordability crisis, headlined by sky-high home prices, as well wrestle with meaty issues like how many people should we admit to this country, how best to stem the numbers of people dying from opioid overdoses, whether we need to build nation-spanning oil pipelines – just to name a few.

It’s a tall order… That’s why at the onset of the campaign, we asked whether Canada itself was the ballot box issue in this year’s race.

It’s unclear if that’s what’s driving voters, but polls have shown that dealing with Trump occupied a lot of space earlier on in the race, only to fade in the final stages, which may help to explain how the Liberal lead narrowed near the end of the campaign.

Speaking of polls, final polls from Abacus, Leger, Ipsos, Mainstreet and Nanos all show the Liberals leading the Conservatives by single-digit margins, though it’s unclear if it would be enough for a majority government.

It could mean a long night of ballot watching.