There are a great many matters on Canadians’ minds right now, with Trump’s tariffs beginning to impact all of Canada, an ongoing housing crisis, healthcare provider shortages and more.
Because Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a snap election, Canadians will be casting their ballots in the next federal election on Monday, April 28th.
This snap election has been speculated ever since former prime minister Justin Trudeau resigned from his duties.
Since Carney took over for Trudeau, the Liberals have had a surge of support. Prior to Trudeau’s resignation, the Conservatives were leading polls across the country.
With the election just five weeks away and the United States’ tariffs still top of mind for many Canadians, this election is bound to be a dramatic one.
BC-based polling and survey firm, Research Co., recently published the findings of one of their surveys surrounding the upcoming election.
According to Research Co., BC residents have similar priorities to the rest of the country when looking at what issues are most important to British Columbia going into this election.
The number one issue to BC respondents was Canada-United States relations (32%); followed by the economy and jobs (22%); and the third most important issue to BC is housing, homelessness and poverty (15%).
Following these issues was healthcare (9%), immigration (6%), accountability (5%) and crime/public safety (3%).
As for approval ratings for Canada’s federal party leaders, Research Co.’s findings show that British Columbians primarily support the Liberal Party of Canada going into this election.
According to the survey, 54% of BC respondents say they approve of the job Liberal leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney has been doing, 44% approve of Poilievre as leader of the conservatives, 37% approve of the job NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has been doing and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault has a 34% approval.
The parties with the least support in BC are Bloc Québécois and their leader Yves-François Blanchet (14%) and the People’s Party of Canada and their leader Maxime Bernier (22%).
The survey also asked British Columbians who they planned on voting for in April.
Of the decided voters in BC, 41% said they would be voting for the Liberals, 39% said they would vote Conservative, only 8% said they would cast a ballot for the NDP, another 8% said they would vote Green, 0% said they would vote for Bloc Québécois and 1% said they would vote for the People’s Party.
Looking at another Canadian polling firm, 388Canada, the Liberal Party is currently predicted to win the popular vote and the election.
Currently, the only two provinces that the Conservatives are leading in are Alberta and Saskatchewan.
388Canada polls show that the Liberals are forecasted to form a majority government with 41% of the vote. As of this publication, they are predicted to win 185 seats compared to the Conservatives’ 126.
