Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: Liberals, Conservatives in tight race as voters head to the polls” – below is their description.
Canadians from coast to coast are heading to the polls on Monday to choose their next federal government in the climax of the 44th general election.
An Ipsos poll of 2,359 Canadians conducted exclusively for Global News on the eve of the election found that Liberals and Conservatives remain locked in a dead heat, with the latter inching ahead by just one per cent in the national popular vote.
The poll showed Conservatives on track to garner 32 per cent of the popular vote, while Liberals went down a point— projected to receive 31 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, the NDP received 21 per cent in the survey, while the Bloc Quebecois secured seven per cent and the Green Party earned three per cent.
About 6.8 million Canadians have already voted, the majority of them doing so through advanced polling Sept. 10 to 13, and the rest through special balloting either by mail or in-person at Elections Canada offices. About 30 million eligible voters are able to cast their ballots Monday.
Ipsos CEO Darrell Bricker joins Global News Morning’s Antony Robart to take a closer look at the polling numbers.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.