Liberals lose, Conservatives gain in new riding boundary breakdown of 2021 electoral results
Election Canada’s transposition of vote analysis will help federal parties determine the battleground ridings for the next election, says pollster Greg Lyle.
Liberal ridings raised more cash in 2022, but Conservatives had $12-million more in the bank
At the end of 2022—the most recent publicly available filings with Elections Canada—the federal Conservative riding associations had $25.4-million in the bank, compared to the Liberals’ $13.4-million. All riding associations must file their 2023 financial statements with Elections Canada by May 31.
As illiberal regimes spread in a year of elections, Canada must defend vision of democracy as ‘best guarantee’ of freedom, says Ignatieff
Authoritarian regimes are increasingly exploiting democratic norms and language to justify government overreach and cronyism, warns ex-Liberal leader in speech to University of Ottawa.
Confronting Beijing’s meddling outweighs concerns over politician participation, says Uyghur advocate
Panellists from diaspora groups provided the Foreign Interference Commission with ‘courageous and heartbreaking’ context to examine the full scope of the problem, says a former CSIS official.
‘Up to Canadians to judge’: Liberal-NDP deal holds two years on, as sweeping elections bill introduced
If Bill C-65 passes, the chief electoral officer must report on ways to implement a three-day voting period, and on the feasibility of allowing electors to cast their vote at any polling station in their riding by 2029.
Government’s newly proposed privacy policies won’t change how federal political parties use voter data: experts
The federal parties are preparing to go to court to avoid being subject to B.C.’s more stringent privacy laws. Sara Bannerman, an expert on data governance, said if the parties were required to adhere to such laws, ‘it could cripple their whole data-fied campaign system.’
Attorney general calls B.C. privacy case ‘premature,’ says federal political parties can ‘self-regulate’ use of voter data: new documents
The attorney general’s ‘principal strategy’ appears to be to ‘push off a court ruling to a later date,’ but the ‘elephant in the room’ is the federal election set for October 2025 or sooner, said lawyer Connor Bildfell.
‘Believe the polls’ is the message for Trudeau Liberals from Durham byelection, say some seasoned political players
The next election is not scheduled until October 2025, and political dynamics could be very different at that time compared to now, says Dan Arnold, a former senior strategist for the Liberal Party.
‘We won’t give up’: electoral reform advocates set sights on provinces after citizens’ assembly motion fails in the House
Just under a third of MPs voted for the motion, but a Fair Vote Canada representative said ‘opportunities for reform will continue to come up whenever voters are dissatisfied.’
Want electoral reform? Let the voters decide
An ‘instant-runoff’ style ballot system is the least disruptive, and ensures that the wishes of the majority of voters are respected.
