Canada election: ‘We can control our destiny,’ Carney says after triggering snap vote
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Voters will go to the polls on April 28.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney revealed he would introduce a middle-class tax cut that could affect up to 22 million Canadians.
“Negativity won’t win a trade war,” he said in a shot at Poilievre during his first speech of the campaign.
Speaking earlier in Quebec, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats of annexation.
Poilievre said a "lost Liberal decade" has left Canada weak and vulnerable on the world stage.
Polling suggests a tight race between the Liberals and Tories as the campaign gets underway.
Carney’s choice of riding
The Liberals announced yesterday that Carney — who currently doesn’t have a seat in Parliament — will run in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.
There were musings about where Carney would run: he was born in the Northwest Territories, grew up in Edmonton and now lives in Ottawa.
Chandra Arya, the riding’s incumbent, was set to run again but the Liberals revoked his nomination last week. The party said new information obtained by the "green light committee" led the campaign co-chair to recommend that his "status as a candidate" be revoked. They didn’t offer further details.
Carney said the decision was solely in the hands of the committee and he had no influence on their decision.
“I’m not a member of that committee, they take their decisions,” he said.
Arya was also disqualified from the Liberal leadership race and he hasn’t appealed either decision.
Nepean borders the riding of Carleton, which is represented by Carney’s main political rival, Pierre Poilievre.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney launched his first election campaign today with an immediate promise to cut taxes for the middle class and a call for Canadians to unite to keep the country strong.
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Carney is heading to Atlantic Canada for his first official campaign stop with a rally planned for St. John’s tonight.
Former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King holds the record for being Canada's longest-serving prime minister — but he wasn't always an MP during that time.
Twice King lost his seat in elections where his Liberals were able to form government and he ran in byelections to re-enter the House in both cases.
Even though the Conservatives won the most seats in the 1925 election, King was able to form a minority government with the backing of the Progressive party.
One of the seats the Conservatives won in that election was King's riding of North York. The then-prime minister ran in and won a byelection in the Saskatchewan riding of Prince Albert a few months later.