Meanwhile, a long campaign serves the interests of the Conservative Party because of the way the Canadian campaign finance system works.Spending during an election season is restricted, but parties can spend more in longer campaigns than in short ones. In those early days voting was staggered across the country over a period of several months, necessarily extending the length of the campaigns. The high salience of regional and linguistic politics in the 1990s greatly advantaged the Liberals by fracturing non-Liberals into multiple parties — Jeffrey Simpson, an influential Canadian journalist, labeled this era a.The Canadian federal election will be held on October 19, 2015. ",Canada's music industry thrives in part due to protectionist regulations demanding that Canadian broadcast media dedicate a certain share of their time to "Canadian content" (what that means exactly is.Typically, a campaign would be short for one of two reasons. Slightly more than one-fifth of Canadians speak French as their mother tongue, and tend to align themselves politically with the more left-wing currents associated with France rather than the English-speaking world. The Conservatives have a much more robust fundraising capacity, and thus a long campaign with a high spending cap gives them an advantage. Chip in as little as $3 to help keep it free for everyone.The best alternative streaming services, from anime to arthouse,How the coming fight over Ginsburg’s SCOTUS replacement could shape the Senate elections,At the UN, China’s Xi showed he understands the system better than Trump,Trump wants the Supreme Court to let him weaponize the census against immigrants.Even though nobody talks about it, the US-Canada economic relationship is extremely important, and Canada — not China or Mexico — is our largest trading partner.Stephen Harper's defeat would be a rebuke to.Last but by no means least, if a Liberal minority government ends up depending on the NDP for support that could have negative consequences for both the Keystone XL pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Justin Trudeau is charismatic by the standards of Canadian politics, and has a strong family legacy to trade on, but he's considered a bit of a lightweight. That helped boost the NDP into an unprecedented second-place finish, which laid the foundation for the party to define itself as the real alternative to Harper — a quest in which it was successful early in the campaign but appears to have fallen short in October.But the Liberals have also traditionally been the party of Canadian bilingualism and binationalism. Candidate, York University, Toronto.Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. The Conservatives ruled the airwaves singlehandedly early on, but failed to really turn this to their advantage.Well, I bothered to write this, so obviously I think you should.Stephen Harper watching soccer in Vancouver.The Conservatives are running the incumbent, Stephen Harper, who is also the only person to have ever been a Conservative Party of Canada candidate for prime minister. The ensuing campaign was one of the longest in Canadian history. Animal All. The election was one of the longest in Canadian history.← List of House members of the 41st Parliament of Canada,List of House members of the 42nd Parliament of Canada →,Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won within that province. In 12 polls published between Sept. 7 and Sept. 17, the leading party changed eight times — including three separate times in polls published on the same day.In 31 polls published since Sept. 20, the NDP only managed to place second once in a Oct. 1 Nanos survey of 1,499 people, when the party had 28 per cent of support. (The table compares the preliminary result for 2015 to the total vote in 2011, adjusted for the 15 byelections since then.)