# Canada: GovGen dissolves Parliament, Carney drops the writ, and the election is on! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [March 23, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985 "2025-03-23T19:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/581 "2025-04-28T19:38:01Z")
Just voted. Even my elderly mom, who’s only ever voted Conservative, voted Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/582 "2025-04-28T19:45:08Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Just voted. Even my elderly mom, who’s only ever voted Conservative, voted Liberal.   That’s so good to hear! There was a very elderly lady coming in to vote while I was there. God bless their patriotic hearts for making the effort! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/583 "2025-04-28T19:45:12Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > You can only vote at one polling station within your electorate? 😰 On polling day, yes. But earlier in the process, once the candidates have been elected, anyone in the riding can vote in the office of the local electoral office, which is one 9 to 9, 7 days a week. There are also advance polls earlier in the election. They may be at a different location than your polling station. You can also do mail-in ballots if you sign up early enough. So, there’s lots of options to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/584 "2025-04-28T19:51:32Z")
I voted on the walk to work this morning. Brisk morning; sunny, and around 3 C. Polling was in a local church. I arrived early, around 7:15; doors open at 7:30. There were already three people in line. While we were waiting a line formed from the church door halfway down the block. Knew several people in the line from the neighbourhood, so chatted with them while waiting. When we got in, there were three ballot boxes, depending on where your address was. I was third in line for the ballot box for my street, and saw a neighbour, the first in line, be asked to look in the ballot box to verify it was empty. Then it got sealed. Five candidates on the ballot: - Conservative - Green - Liberal - New Democrat - People’s Party In and out in about 10 minutes. Still a lineup when I left at about 7:45. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/585 "2025-04-28T19:54:54Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Did he forget, or does he want to claim, whoever wins, that the win is due to his endorsement? He’s clearly taking about himself. He’s trolling. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/586 "2025-04-28T20:09:28Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Is someone seriously suggesting that this deranged rant might be an endorsement of Carney? > > I mean, I would accept “Trump has forgotten who the candidates are,” but he’s clearly not supporting the Liberals. Unlike some others here, I thought it was clear. The man to vote for, who will supposedly cut your taxes in half, can only be himself. The message is to vote for Donald J. Trump in 2028. Does he really think he will then be on the ballot in Canada? No, he’s lying about that. Does he then really think Canada will be a U.S. possession in 2028, or is that just trolling? We do not know. P.S. Looks like I may have just given Zoobi a longwinded agree. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/587 "2025-04-28T20:40:41Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I was third in line for the ballot box for my street, and saw a neighbour, the first in line, be asked to look in the ballot box to verify it was empty. Then it got sealed. This is interesting. So whichever random resident happens to be first in line gets to perform this important civic function? That’s kind of neat. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/588 "2025-04-28T21:04:07Z")
Just fyi: image links from Discord aren’t stable. The URLs change a lot to keep people from posting their images elsewhere. I’ve seen at least a couple empty images in your posts because of this. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/589 "2025-04-28T21:44:36Z")
Well, I voted. A beautiful spring day, and it was a nice walk down to the church on the corner, where polling in my neighbourhood took place. It’s the middle of the day, and I didn’t expect there to be very many people there. And there weren’t—I was in and out in less than five minutes. I expect it will get crowded later, though, with the “I’ll vote after work” crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/590 "2025-04-28T21:50:36Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I was speaking with the ex-wife earlier today. She runs a small business and I’ve always known her to have small-c conservative leanings. When I told her I was about to go out to vote, she said “I hope you’re voting Liberal”. Apparently her views have changed since way back in the Harper era. > > But provincially, **I still like Doug Ford.** I think of him as a jolly fat guy who gives me free money, like canceling annual vehicle registration fees and sending me a cheque for $200 for no particular reason. Hey, I can be bribed! 😉 > > Seriously, the guy managed the COVID crisis very well and has been one of the most adamant anti-Trump forces around here. I don’t think Doug Ford is really all that enamoured with PP. just my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/591 "2025-04-28T21:59:12Z")
Yeah, but in this case Trump is probably right. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/592 "2025-04-28T22:00:09Z")
You might be wrong. South Africans often have strong opinions on politics and many are diligent about voting even if they live abroad. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/593 "2025-04-28T22:03:06Z")
Plus there are additional early polling stations at places like colleges and universities, with migratory student populations. These campus stations tended to be open for 5-7 days. With proper identification, any citizen can cast an early vote in any district in Canada where they normally reside, as per their ID. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/594 "2025-04-28T22:26:13Z")
I’ll guess at the results. Libs 179 Cons 138 BQ 20 NDP 5 Green 1 ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/595 "2025-04-28T22:47:47Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > You can’t just go anywhere to vote. If you show up to a poll, its their job to first verify you are in the place you need to be. This is a hijack but methinks the first priority is to verify who you are. > [@](#): > > The idea is that if they allow an elector to just go to any ol’ polling place on election day… you could just go back to your proper polling place in the afternoon and get two votes Continued hijack; Well in this here backward, unsophisticated part of the globe, in my federal electorate there are about 70 polling stations for about 110,000 voters. I can go to vote in any of them as my prerogative and convenience. There are four mobile polling booths who will come to me if I’m incapacitated or in hospital or respite care. If I was prepared to tour the electorate and lie to the second question asked (“Have you voted before in this election?”) I could vote in all 70. Which would be really easy to detect with significant sanctions being applied and even by casting 70 votes, out of 110k, I’m not affecting the result. I can walk into any polling station within my state and vote “absentee”. I can go to the central polling station of any electorate in the country and vote “absentee”. With less location options, but the same obligation to vote applying if I was overseas. Not including the pre-poll and mail in options. > [@](#): > > No, ifs, ands, or buts. Methinks this should be straight forward to administer in these modern times of integrated comms systems with a properly maintained electoral roll. We antipodean cave dwellers have been doing this for decades before there was an internet … and the task all done with pencils and paper. And Go The Grits! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/596 "2025-04-28T23:21:30Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > This is a hijack but methinks the first priority is to verify who you are. Probably not. People misrepresenting who they are (accidentally or deliberately) is very rare. People going to the wrong polling place is relatively common. Better to address the common error first, because it might make the possibility of the uncommon error moot (if the voter is in the wrong place, it’s not your job to verify their identity; it’s the job of the poll-workers at the correct place). ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/597 "2025-04-28T23:32:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Better to address the common error first And yet the fix seems to be “Fuck off”, rather than “How can I help you vote?”. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/598 "2025-04-28T23:44:27Z")
Ten minute walk from our home, First St Andrew’s United Church. Probably 10-12 poll workers all up. Only a handful of voters though at 1pm. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/599 "2025-04-28T23:45:55Z")
I’ve voted in the same church basement for several elections now, and not only is it always the same church, out of the 8 or so little tables set up, it’s always in the same spot. I’ve never turned left to go deeper into that room to other stations. I like it, it’s predictable. I went around 3 and it took me much more time to walk there (13 minutes according to the phone call log I was on, but I stayed outside a few minutes to finish the call) than it did to vote (maybe 5 minutes maximum but I don’t think it even took that long). I dawdled on the way home and enjoyed some whimsical garden art in one front yard. Beautiful 20C sunny day. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/600 "2025-04-28T23:46:14Z")
Some polls have closed in Atlantic Canada now. Currently Liberals leading in 9 ridings and Conservatives leading in 3. Fingers crossed that proportion continues! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985.md?page=31)