Canada’s Trudeau triggers snap election in push for majority

Canadians will go to the polls on September 20, as Justin Trudeau’s Liberals seek a renewed majority in parliament.

Montreal, Canada – Canadians will be heading to the polls next month, two years earlier than scheduled, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered a snap election on Sunday after weeks of speculation that a vote was coming. Trudeau, whose Liberal Party secured a 157-seat minority government in the last election in 2019, is hoping to get back a majority in the face of what analysts have described as a divided and weak opposition Conservative Party of Canada. “Canadians will … go to the polls on September 20,” Trudeau told reporters in the capital, Ottawa, after he visited the residence of Governor General Mary Simon to ask her to dissolve parliament. Trudeau said Simon had accepted his request, which triggers the election campaign.