# 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:** 35
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/681 "2025-04-29T03:42:36Z")
The last time I saw a 25-point lead blown like this was by the Falcons in the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/682 "2025-04-29T03:43:11Z")
With every poll that reports, Fanjoy’s lead increases. PP is toast. ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/683 "2025-04-29T03:43:45Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Watching election coverage without ads is fucking awesome. Socialism in action! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/684 "2025-04-29T03:44:10Z")
Better defund that shit! /s ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/685 "2025-04-29T03:44:25Z")
Popular vote is about 1.5% apart, nationally. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/686 "2025-04-29T03:50:45Z")
Michael Chong is winning his seat by a lot. Back when Harper quit, I signed up to vote for Chong as the new CPC leader. If PP does tank, might Chong make another move to lead the CPC? ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/687 "2025-04-29T03:52:12Z")
Singh is losing in Burnaby Central. Currently third, behind the Liberal (1st) and the Conservative (2nd). ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/688 "2025-04-29T03:52:56Z")
May is elected in her riding for the Greens. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/689 "2025-04-29T03:55:52Z")
CBC is talking about the delays in counting the advance votes. I think we should just make a rule: we start counting those the morning of the official vote day, and hopefully they’ll all report right away when the polls close. This hodge podge of advance results delays serves no one. ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/690 "2025-04-29T03:57:53Z")
This is the first two-party federal election in Canada in a century. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/691 "2025-04-29T03:58:13Z")
Insignificant question: both a pen and pencil were available today. Which did you use? I’ve always voted with a pencil, so that’s what I picked up. My husband too. I think if you try to erase the pencil the paper smudges so I’m not very concerned about alterations. I also made an X not a ✔ ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/692 "2025-04-29T04:03:01Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > With every poll that reports, Fanjoy’s lead increases. PP is toast. Yay!! While the Liberal landslide I was hoping for didn’t happen, a Liberal government, even if a minority, and PP buggering off into the sunset are all good things! > [@Spoons](#): > > Singh is losing in Burnaby Central. Currently third, behind the Liberal (1st) and the Conservative (2nd). I love the NDP but I’m not sure Singh was ever the right choice. If only we could resurrect Jack Layton! ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/693 "2025-04-29T04:03:21Z")
Well, I have to work in the morning and can’t stay up for advance polls to trickle in. Best wishes, all. Elected and leading: Liberals 162 Conservatives 149 Bloq 23 NDP 8 Green 1 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/694 "2025-04-29T04:03:46Z")
Cons now LEADING in our riding (Maillardville). I voted NDP, but only after checking the polls assiduously and reading up on the (rather weak) Liberal candidate. Conservatives has an 8% chance of winning the riding this morning, but are outperforming expectations. The candidate who was kicked out by the Conservatives for mysterious reasons but ran anyway as an independent is getting less than 1% of the vote — I hoped he’d be a spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/695 "2025-04-29T04:04:45Z")
Only pencils at my advance poll last weekend. Honkin’ great huge pencils, not the little golf-style I’m accustomed to. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/696 "2025-04-29T04:05:18Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Yay!! While the Liberal landslide I was hoping for didn’t happen, a Liberal government, even if a minority, and PP buggering off into the sunset are all good things Fanjoy’s lead has decreased a bit, but he’s still well ahead of PP. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/697 "2025-04-29T04:05:54Z")
Oh yes, oversized pencil! I felt like a toddler using it! ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/698 "2025-04-29T04:06:14Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Yay!! While the Liberal landslide I was hoping for didn’t happen, a Liberal government, even if a minority, and PP buggering off into the sunset are all good things! Yeah, I’m with you on that. I’m thinking that the Tories are going to have to do some serious thinking about who their next leader will be. “Maybe we shouldn’t choose someone quite so Trumpy.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/699 "2025-04-29T04:08:52Z")
And there actually seem to be a couple/few hundred votes for all those independent candidates. It would be weird if that actually makes a difference in the end. ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985/700 "2025-04-29T04:10:20Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Insignificant question: both a pen and pencil were available today. > > Which did you use? I thought it was strange, but yes, both a ballpoint pen and a pencil were in the voting booth. But it wasn’t a “honking great” kindergarten style pencil, just a fairly ordinary one. I thought the pen was just something someone had forgotten there. I used the pencil, as I always do. And made a very clear and distinct “X” in the little circle, not a check mark. Today was the first time I noticed that every ballot has a serial number, and that before giving you the ballot to deposit in the box, the poll worker tears off a section that contains a copy of the serial number. What they do with it I do not know, [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-govgen-dissolves-parliament-carney-drops-the-writ-and-the-election-is-on/1015985.md?page=36)