Experts point to two key reasons why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might want an election as Canada's ascends into a fourth wave of the pandemic: the government’s minority status, and poll numbers that suggest a majority could be within their reach.
TORONTO -- The last time Canada held an election, it was three months before the country’s first case of COVID-19. Now, while there are enough vaccines in Canada to immunize all who are eligible, the pandemic is far from over.
To pass legislation, they require support from the opposition.This has not been a problem of late, with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh promising not to“If this was any other time, instead of the time of the pandemic, we would normally see the opposition being much more aggressive in their threats to bring down the government,” McDougall said.
Four of the last six federal governments have been minorities, with the last one prior to Trudeau led by the Conservatives and Stephen Harper from 2008 to 2011. Harper’s lengthy minority run was brought down in a motion of no confidence by the opposition in 2011, but the Conservatives went on to win a majority of seats. About two-thirds of the minority parliaments in Canadian history served for less than two years.
“He’s trying to find that sweet spot where people are still happy with the vaccine roll-out and the income supports, but not so much so that we start to get into, ‘how are we going to pay for all of these things?’ and start to look at other aspects of the Liberal record,” Bratt said Thursday on CTV News Channel.
Poll numbers suggest a majority is within their reach, and with Canada among the most vaccinated countries in the world, the Liberals are getting a lot of credit for navigating the pandemic, their vaccine procurement efforts, and even how they have managed to keep the economy stable through the crisis.
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