Guelph Politicast

If you listen to this show promptly on Wednesday then it’s just five more sleeps till Election Day! About a quarter of us have been so excited that we just couldn’t wait to vote; 7.3 million Canadians made voting part of their Easter weekend festivities, a new record. What’s been driving all this excitement? What about the party platforms? The manoeuvres of the national party leaders? And what the hell happened at those post-debate scrums? Once you might have been right saying that the electorate was eager to replace an old and tired regime under Justin Trudeau for the slick sloganeering of Pierre Poilievre, but as he usually does, Trump changed everything. Not content to make himself the main character of American politics, the U.S. President’s large shadow has been cast over the 45th Canadian general election, and that means it could be Mark Carney’s game even more than Poilievre. But this is the Guelph Politicast, so let’s talk about Guelph, which is a riding, but not the only riding with Guelph in it. Gue