By Tony Royden-
Canadian’s will go to the poll for their 43rd general election today, in a poll to decide its next leader.
Current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau(pictured) whose rise to power four years ago was celebrated and presented as a promising future for Canadians has since gone sour. The Trudeau has been rocked by recent scandals hasn’t helped his chances for these close elections.
The race is expected to be close between Trudeau’s Liberals and Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives, with Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party making gains in the final week of campaigning. Canadians are hardly inspired by any of the candidates, especially with some of the skeletons they have in their closet.
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Canadians do not consider any of the presidential candidates to possess any real vision for the country worth getting exciting about. What they have facing them are scandalous news like Mr Trudeau’s blackface photos, inconsistencies the revelation that Mr Scheer holds dual American citizenship, and discrepancies in the submitted resume of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.
Under the Canadian first past the post system, the candidate with the most votes wins a riding (electoral district), and the party to win the most ridings will form a government. The prime minister is not directly elected, instead the winning party’s leader will take up the top post. The House of Commons (the lower house of Parliament) has 338 seats, with voting will take place in 338 ridings across the country.
Canadian press have said that Mr Scheer’s team had hired a company to “seek and destroy” the campaign of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), a new splinter movement that threatens to split the conservative vote. The PPC is now threatening legal action and accused the party of “dirty politics”.
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