Canada to fire starting gun for October general election

[brooklynite]

3. Update: Canada's election is officially underway

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a mid-morning visit with Governor General Julie Payette at Rideau Hall Wednesday to ask her dissolve Parliament and kick off the campaign for the Oct. 21 vote.

Trudeau emerges from his meeting just over 40 minutes later. Speaking to reporters, he began by remembering the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks 18 years ago.

And then the Liberal leader made his pitch for a second term, saying his government has put more money in the pockets of middle-class Canadians, strengthened the Canada Pension Plan, and renegotiated a trade deal with a “protectionist” United States.

The choice is to “keeping moving forward” or return to the politics of the “Harper years,” he said, referring to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/09/11/canadas-election-is-officially-underway.html