Voters in Canada are going to
elect 338-member House of
Commons, the lower house
of Parliament today. One
hundred and seventy seats
are needed to form a majority
government. The poll is
largely seen as a referendum
on Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau. It is expected to be
close race between
Trudeau’s Liberals and
Andrew Scheer’s
Conservatives, with Jagmeet
Singh’s New Democratic
Party making gains in the
final week of the
campaigning. Forty-seven
year old Trudeau is seeking a
second mandate
Trudeau and Scheer made
last desperate pitches to
undecided voters over the
weekend in key battlegrounds
in British Columbia, Ontario
and Quebec provinces.
