Difficult road to power. The electoral struggle of Canada’s major political parties in 2018–2019

Abstract

The article attempts to consider the features of the electoral struggle of the main political parties of Canada in 2018–2019. Basing on the material of national and foreign historiography, as well as the media materials, the author pursues a comparative historical analysis of the contest for power of the Liberal, New Democratic and Conservative parties exclusively by reformist means and methods. This fact, according to the author, is the most important feature of the socio-political development of Canada, where the two parties, on a national scale, have been succeeding each other in power for a long time. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the election rhetoric of the Conservatives and the Liberals is influenced by their former popularity with the Canadian electorate, which associates these political forces with the stable development of the state, as well as the actions carried out by them earlier in the field of domestic and foreign policy of the country.

The author emphasizes that the real high rating of the Canadian liberals is due to their rather successful domestic policy, in particular, the signing of the USMCA agreement with the United States and Mexico. The author highlights that the NDP, despite the next line-up change of the leadership, is still unable to politically challenge the Liberals and the Conservatives, and to gain power on a national scale.