Canadian Federal Election of 2019

In mid-September 2019, just days after the start of the federal election campaign, a photo from the 2001 yearbook of the private school at which Trudeau taught was published showing him wearing “brownface” as part of his costume at an…

…by the results of the 2019 federal election, in which the Bloc, under the leadership of Yves-François Blanchet, returned as a force to be reckoned with by capturing more than 30 seats and supplanting the NDP as the second opposition party nationally. The Bloc maintained that status in the 2021…

…led the party into the 2019 federal election, in which it won a narrow victory in the popular vote but did not win enough seats to wrest power from the Liberals. Scheer was replaced as leader by Erin O’Toole, who staked out a moderate position in the 2021 snap federal…

…to another victory in the 2019 federal election; however, the party went from majority to minority rule. In 2021 Trudeau called a snap election, hoping to regain a parliamentary majority; however, the Liberals fell short of that goal, gaining just two seats but achieving another plurality to preserve minority rule.

…not fare well in the 2019 federal election, dropping 20 seats and losing its status as the second opposition party to the Bloc Québécois, which trounced it in the vote in Quebec. In the 2021 snap federal election, the NDP added a seat to increase its presence in the House…

…in the imminent regularly scheduled federal election. In mid-September 2019 Trudeau chose to call for that election to be contested on October 21. At the time, opinion polls showed the Liberals and Conservatives to be effectively in a dead heat, followed distantly by the NDP and the Green Party.