The CBC reports that Justin Trudeau has set another spending record: at $610 million, this election will be the most expensive ever, a full $100 million more than the vote the Liberal leader called just two years ago.
That’s $1.1 billion in total for two campaigns, not a big number for a government that shovels out money as readily as this one. And why not? Trudeau’s six years in power have already given the country the biggest deficits and the deepest debt in 154 years of trying, plunging us into the biggest financial hole in our history. So why not tack on a gold medal in running inconclusive elections?
Anything could happen Monday when the ballots are counted — or maybe it will be Tuesday or Wednesday before the mail-in votes can be tallied — but as of the weekend the 36-day race has the Liberals at 31.4 per cent support, with the Conservatives at 30.9 per cent, according to the national broadcaster’s aggregate of polls, both down slightly in the last hours of the campaign.
That’s half a percentage point, or, in polling terms, nothing. The Liberals could still eke out a victory given how the votes are spread, but it hardly suggests a ringing endorsement of Trudeau’s leadership, or his wisdom in forcing this shambles of a contest. The numbers say the Liberals are less popular at the end of the campaign than they were at the start, less popular still than after the 2019 campaign, and eons less popular than 2015, when Trudeau still came across as young, chipper, eager and hopeful, before the disappointment set in.
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