Finally, its time to vote, vote, vote...

Doesn't this feel like the longest election campaign ever? 

It's actually an average length of 37 days, it only seems like Canadians have been waiting FOREVER to get this election decided so we can get on with whatever comes next. 
The advanced polls opened on Friday and the lines were long:

All good Americans stand with Canada during their election!! Good luck Carney!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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— 🌸🌺Cindy Cardno🌺 (@cyn1422.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM

It's a lineup to vote!!! It's never been a lineup at advanced polls! That's why we do them! Wow!!!

— Catelli (@catelli.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM

Strolled over to vote early — thought I’d be in and out. Nope. 80–100 people in line! I have never missed a provincial or federal election since I turned 18, I am now almost 53. I’ve never seen a crowd like that, especially at an advance poll. Elbows up! Love this country. 🇨🇦 #canada #vote

— Paul from Canada (@letsgopmo.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM

🔥 Voting Polls Across Canada are being slammed with voters reports @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social Hundreds are in line-ups -ready to vote everywhere. This is a first in Canadian history - #LetsGoCanada #Vote Four Days of Advanced Voting April 18, 19, 20, 21st. Election Day is April 28th, 2025. #GOVOTE

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— RGBAtlantica (@ratlantica.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM

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Interesting observations here:
Shannon Proudfoot / The Globe and Mail

In Niagara Falls, Mark Carney stares down Hurricane Trump
....The key question in this election is who is “best placed” to stand up to Mr. Trump, defend Canadians and build something better out of “his chaos that’s coming into our lives,” he said. And Mr. Carney had an answer to that key question.
“Now I, for better or worse, have managed crises almost all my professional life,” he said. “I helped us manage through the 2008 financial crisis. I helped guide the U.K. through the Brexit turmoil. I think I know not just what it takes to survive a crisis, to get through a crisis, but what it takes to emerge stronger than before.”
The wind just went on attacking as he spoke. It made the Liberal Leader’s eyes water and he blinked forcefully a few times, but even as tears began to slide down his nose, at no point did he look or sound even slightly perturbed by the gale.
The underlying reality is this: Mr. Carney is riding high in the polls because Mr. Trump terrified and enraged Canadians, and they’ve decided en masse that the Liberal Leader is the best person to manage the man-made emergency. In this campaign, Mr. Carney might as well have showed up wearing a T-shirt with “Adult In The Room” emblazoned across the chest (though he would never, because can you imagine how that would look with the banker’s suit?).
As long as the U.S. President remains a screaming crisis, everything Canadians are reacting positively to in Mr. Carney stays relevant. If Mr. Trump’s threats become like Niagara Falls after you stand beside it for a while – roaring away in the background, so loud and wild and constant that you just stop noticing it – that could dial up the appetite for change that Canadians were feeling so sharply just a few months ago.
....As Mr. Carney went to leave the rooftop, someone commented that the savage wind had finally settled down.
“See? I gave a speech and now the wind has stopped,” he said with a laugh. “Everything’s calm, everything’s under control”...

Poilievre, on the other hand, thought Canadians really wanted to hear today about his plastic straws concept of a plan:

CW: canadian politics one might say he's... grasping... at something #canpoli #canada

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— Amy Star (@amyzenunim.starwitch.productions) April 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM

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