Please sign and share the petition to stop Prime Minister Trudeau from calling an illegal, dishonest snap election that will be unfair and dangerous for many voters.

A snap election is illegal because Canada’s election law has measures that fix the next election date for October 2023, four years after the last election, unless the government loses an important vote in Parliament (like a vote on its budget or other major issue).

As well, a snap election would violate the constitutional rule that has been created by Parliament following the fixed election date law in 2011 (when the Harper Conservatives only called an election after losing a vote of confidence in Parliament), and in 2015 and 2019.

A snap election will also be dishonest because anything Prime Minister Trudeau says about needing to call an election now will be false.  A majority of MPs have voted in favour of everything the Trudeau Liberals have proposed since the last election, including the Liberal budget, so the opposition parties have shown they support the Liberals continuing to govern.

A recent poll showed 74% of Canadians do not want a snap election this fall.

As well, Prime Minister Trudeau and 326 MPs in the House of Commons, including all Liberals, voted in June against holding an election while COVID is still a danger, which it is.

Just a few weeks ago, the PM also denied that he was going to call a snap election.

For these reasons alone, new Governor General Mary Simon can say no to a snap election call by the PM, just like when the British Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that it was illegal for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shut down Parliament for no justifiable reason.

A snap election will also be dangerous for many voters. A fourth wave of COVID-19 is expected across Canada this fall, more contagious than ever, as many people are still not fully vaccinated. Voters who are vulnerable to COVID-19 will, completely justifiably, feel hesitant about going to a polling station to vote.

So Trudeau will be a hypocrite if he calls a snap election before COVID is eradicated as a danger.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s government called a snap election last winter – then a COVID outbreak happened, the election date was postponed twice, and voter turnout plunged to a record low as many voters were prevented from voting by the sudden new requirement imposed on them to register for, receive, fill in and mail back their ballot on short deadlines.

Just like the election agency in Newfoundland and Labrador, Elections Canada has never run an election with mail-in ballots being the way a lot of voters vote, nor have any of the federal parties.

Whenever a snap election is called, it is unfair because voters have no time to plan and arrange their lives so they can run as a candidate, volunteer or participate in the election in other ways.  That’s why Parliament decided to fix the federal election date in Canada’s election law.  It makes the election more fair for everyone.

Because they are illegal, dishonest and unfair, Democracy Watch went to court to challenge the snap election calls last fall by the B.C. NDP Premier and the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Premier, which both violated their provincial fixed election date laws.

So please sign and share this petition to stop Prime Minister Trudeau from calling an illegal, dishonest snap election that will be unfair and dangerous for many voters.

And please Share this petition with everyone you know.

And please help keep this campaign going to stop any snap election call before the next fixed date election.  To donate now, please click here.

All together we can make difference!

Thank you very much for your support,

Duff, Brad and Josephine

and all the volunteers across Canada who make Democracy Watch’s successful campaigns possible

SEE ARTICLES CONFIRMING ALL THE INFORMATION ABOVE AT:

Just 26 per cent of Canadians support a federal election in the fall (CTV News, July 20, 2021)

Why the delta variant is spreading COVID-19 so quickly — and what that means for Canada (CBC, July 31, 2021)

Suspending Parliament was unlawful, British Supreme Court judges rule (BBC, September 24, 2019)

All parties support motion against holding a pandemic election (iPolitics.ca, May 25, 2021)

Newfoundland and Labrador: An election plagued with problems raises questions about court challenges, reforms (CBC, March 28, 2021)

Trudeau denies it, but signs point to early election in Canada (Politico.com, July 9, 2021)

Democracy Watch and Wayne Crookes, founder of IntegrityBC, file lawsuit against B.C. Premier’s election call (October 23, 2020)

Democracy Watch files lawsuit against NB Premier’s election call (November 26, 2020)