It should come as absolutely no surprise that the Harper Conservatives began the 2015 federal election campaign just as they have governed for the past nine years – with a cynical move calculated entirely to wring maximum partisan advantage from the situation.
By calling the election on Sunday – fully 79 days before the long-designated voting day on Oct. 19 – the Conservatives guarantee two things:
First, that the campaign will be the longest in modern Canadian history – more than twice as long as the past two contests, which clocked in at just 37 days apiece.
And second, that they are giving themselves a big advantage over both major opposition parties.
By calling the election on Sunday – fully 79 days before the long-designated voting day on Oct. 19 – the Conservatives guarantee two things:
First, that the campaign will be the longest in modern Canadian history – more than twice as long as the past two contests, which clocked in at just 37 days apiece.
And second, that they are giving themselves a big advantage over both major opposition parties.