By Cheryl Jahn

Is a federal election around the corner?

Mar 12, 2025 | 3:02 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – To say it was a rout would be an understatement, with Liberal party-faithful resounding putting Mark Carney behind the wheel.

“The Prime Minister-Designate hopes to be sworn in to be our next Prime Minister this Friday after some of his transition team get some security clearances,” noted UNBC Political Analyst Jason Morris. “Probably his first priority has to be to consider whether to call an election or to resume Parliament earlier than the March 24 date that it’s scheduled to start again.”

On January 6, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would resign once a new leader is chosen and prorogue Parliament, pausing the business of the House of Commons and Senate. So once Carney is sworn in, is Parliament still prorogued? “The Executive branch, like the Prime Minister right up to the king, is separate from the legislative procedures.”

Now the question remains: Will there be a federal election around the corner?

“Typically a new leader of a party who wants to take some time to put their stamp on things. And for Carney, that would include appointing a cabinet and setting other positions, including staff and finding where their offices are. And as well thinking about, ‘Hmm, maybe I should try to get elected and start looking for a place to do that.’ But that being said, there seems to be for the last more than a year, a great appetite in the population to have a say for citizens. That is an election to get to democratic choice in the future directions of Canada, given everything that’s going on just right now.”

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And what could be the hold-up to a possible election? Simple. Money.

“The Conservatives are a juggernaut of campaign spending. They are fundraising more per quarter than the other parties combined. The Liberal Party of Canada has a challenge now,” says Morris. “If they have tapped all their donors trying to choose a new leader and have to go back to that same well. That being said, money is important in politics, but it doesn’t necessarily translate into votes.”

So, like much of politics these days, it’s a matter of wait and see.

by Cheryl Jahn

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