{"id":29606,"date":"2025-03-20T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-mark-carney-expected-to-call-federal-election-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:42:04","slug":"pm-mark-carney-expected-to-call-federal-election-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-mark-carney-expected-to-call-federal-election-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Mark Carney expected to call federal election on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday for a vote as early as April 28.<\/p>\n<p>Sources would not confirm the specific date of the vote, but federal campaigns must run at least 37 days.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Canada\u2019s 45th federal election.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s political parties have been mobilizing campaigns by nominating candidates and organizing leaders\u2019 tours.<\/p>\n<p>Carney was elected as Liberal leader to succeed Justin Trudeau on March 9 and was sworn in as prime minister along with his new cabinet on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>This week he made his first trip abroad, visiting France and the U.K. before making a stop in Iqaluit to assert Canada\u2019s sovereignty amid annexation threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/03\/pm-mark-carney-expected-to-call-federal-election-on-sunday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday for a vote as &#8230; <a title=\"PM Mark Carney expected to call federal election on Sunday\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/pm-mark-carney-expected-to-call-federal-election-on-sunday\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PM Mark Carney expected to call federal election on Sunday\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-29606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}