The Pollcast: Counting down to 2019

Only a year remains before Canadians head to the polls for the 2019 federal election, and already the battle lines are beginning to be drawn between the contenders.

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Next year's vote is scheduled to be held on Oct. 21, 2019. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals retain a lead in the polls over Andrew Scheer's Conservatives, but it is by no means a comfortable edge with another 12 months to go.

The NDPunder JagmeetSingh is struggling to recover from its 2015 defeat, while the Greens have seen their provincial cousins score victories in British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

The Bloc Qubcois is without a permanent leader and its future looks grim after the pasting itreceived in the recent election in Quebec, while the impact of Maxime Bernier'sPeople's Party on the federal scene still isn'tclear.

To break it all down, host and CBC polls analyst ric Grenier is joined on this week's episode of thePollcastby Vassy Kapelos, host ofPower and Politicson CBC News Network, and Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio'sThe House.

Then, Jacques Poitras, theCBC'sprovincial affairs reporter in Fredericton, joins the show to talk aboutthe latest developments in New Brunswick ahead of the first sitting of a deadlockedprovincial legislature next week. Will New Brunswick finally learnwho will govern the province or will votersbe heading back to the polls again within a year?

No party has a majority. So what happens next?

6 years ago

Duration 2:14

New Brunswickers have elected the first legislature since 1920 where no party has a majority. What happens next?!

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