As many as nine per cent of progressive voters could vote strategically in this close election potentially affecting the outcome in more than 100 ridings, says Innovative Research president Greg Lyle.

Liberal MP Ken Hardie says his team has set up get-out-the-vote ground operations in the riding to get all his supporters to the polling booths on election day.

This campaign is not defined by any overarching issue, and has become ‘personal’ and ‘ugly’ between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, says pollster and Ipsos president Darrell Bricker.

'Every pollster, any campaign strategist, everybody is watching the same thing which is how those ridings go,’ says Ipsos Public Affairs CEO Darrell Bricker.

Opposition leaders are likely to go after Justin Trudeau for his past use of blackface in the leaders' debates to come, which 'could get interesting,' says Greg Lyle, depending on how the Liberal leader reacts.

'They're worried. There’s no swagger, put it that way,’ says a Liberal MP to describe the morale of his caucus colleagues, and the party base.

The Daily Telegraph story 'shows how much of an international figure Trudeau has become,' says the senior reporter and editor who wrote a second story exploring the controversy on Sept. 21.

An Innovative Research poll suggested 26 per cent of Canadians say they experience discrimination in their daily life, and a plurality of them are Liberal Party supporters.

It's only week two of the campaign and already the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, and the Greens have all had to drop candidates over offensive or controversial past remarks.

The SNC-Lavalin controversy is back making national headlines and this means bad news for Justin Trudeau's Liberals because it pushes them off their campaign messaging, say pollsters.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is relying on the same senior strategists who helped him win a majority government in 2015. But it's a whole new ball game this time after four years in power.

But pollster Frank Graves says the upcoming election will be about a choice between the Liberal vision of an ‘more open Canada’ and the Conservative Party’s vision of a ‘more ordered type of Canada.’ Either way, he says, the country is divided and there's no outcome that will make most Canadians happy.

Pollster Nik Nanos says he's not sure if they will outperform the New Democrats in a number of seats.

Jasraj Hallan, a businessman in the construction industry, ran unsuccessfully in the most recent provincial Alberta election.

'The thing you need to look at: who is the ally of who they put in [appoint] there, and then you’ll know who engineered to get her kicked out.'

The riding is seen as a safe Conservative seat, and the nomination winner a likely future MP.

Ontario Liberal MP Bob Nault was officially nominated as his party's candidate last week, while rookie Liberal MP Eva Nassif chose not to run in October.

Liberal MP Eva Nassif was confident, until recently, that she would be officially nominated as the party's candidate. On Thursday night, she announced she wouldn't be seeking a second term.

Some Liberal MPs say they are considering not using Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s name or image in their election campaign material.

At least seven candidates are seeking the Liberal nomination in the safe Liberal riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard, Que. and have signed up more than 6,000 riding association members.

‘If you complain about something, especially on this topic, I think you’ll be shunned. A lot of people won’t say anything because it’s Gerry, and their job is on the line,’ says a former senior ministerial staffer.

By invoking an 'electoral urgency' clause, the Liberal Party gave its national campaign leadership ‘unfettered’ authority to bypass rules and processes involved in the nomination of candidates.

If the current voting trends continued until election time, the Green Party could win 14 seats, says EKOS president Frank Graves. But he also says if progressive voters choose to vote strategically to prevent the Conservatives from forming government, they could vote for the Liberals.