The writ has dropped
Governor General Mary Simon dissolved Parliament Sunday afternoon at Mark Carney’s request, starting an election campaign that will culminate on April 28.
Carney plans to run for an Ottawa seat. It will be interesting to see who runs in Papineau to replace Justin Trudeau.
CE 14:51 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
The Liberals are going to run Marjorie Michel in Papineau. https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/article828485.html
Sorry for the Gazette link but they seem to be the only ones reporting on this.
H. John 15:40 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
Green co-leader, Jonathan Pedneault, will be running in Outremont this time. He ran in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Westmount in the 2023 by-election (where he placed 4th).
Once Elections Canada has finished their website maintenance, it’s a good idea to confirm your riding. New riding maps come into effect for this election.
Kate 16:16 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
Thank you, CE. Here’s a link to an archived version of that Gazette piece.
Good advice, H. John.
Ian 22:56 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
H John, are the federal Greens still self-described “fiscal conservatives” or have they truly evolved into a leftist party like some of their provincial offshoots?
CE 23:48 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
I’ve wondered the same thing Ian. That was how they sort of differentiated themselves from the NDP and is pretty common for Green parties around the world. It’s really only in the US where the (federal) Greens have a pretty leftist platform.
Chris 09:17 on 2025-03-24 Permalink
The Canadian federal Greens went very left many years ago. Just take a look at: https://www.greenparty.ca/en/our-plan
• tax the ultrarich
• tax big companies
• gender-affirming health care
• laws against hate speech
• Indigenous sovereignty
• large investment in public housing
• etc etc
I’d bet real money only May will get elected. At best.
Ian 17:48 on 2025-03-24 Permalink
Good to know – thanks for that, Chris.
Tim S. 21:13 on 2025-03-24 Permalink
Mike Morrice in Kitchener seems like a good guy, it would be nice for him to hold on.
jeather 11:24 on 2025-03-25 Permalink
I decided to do the Vote Compass thing to see how I matched up to NDP/Green and TIL I am in a new riding (in fact the riding office for my riding is no longer in my riding), did we know they redrew them?
Kate 18:28 on 2025-03-25 Permalink
jeather, H. John mentioned that there’s been riding changes, upthread.
Are you thinking of doing election day work this time out? I’ve emailed Elections Canada to apply, but haven’t completely decided yet.
jeather 09:27 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
I missed that! But I found this useful map of the redistricting if anyone is curious. None seem all that bizarre except that a lot of St Henri is now in NDG Westmount.
I don’t think I want to do it this time, no.
Joey 10:53 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
@jeather before it was NDG Westmount it was Westmount St-Henri
CE 10:56 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
Thanks for this map. I was really confused yesterday when I was seeing signs for candidates in the Outremont riding pretty deep into Laurier-Sainte-Marie territory.
jeather 11:28 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
Sure, but they didn’t rename them this time. I don’t know the rules about renaming, granted.
CE 11:45 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
I don’t think any new ridings were added to Quebec so no new names would be needed. In Montreal, most of the redistribution was moving borders a few blocks one way or another but the cores of the ridings stay the same.
GC 15:57 on 2025-03-26 Permalink
Thanks for that link, jeather. Interesting.