Montreal, Canada – Canadians will go to the polls next month to hold federal elections in the shadow of a trade war with the United States.

prime minister Mark Carney On Sunday, a vote was seeking to build on the momentum of his liberal party since the beginning of the year.

Experts say the relations between Canada-the United States-and the advance of a strong leadership to confront the tariff of US President Donald Trump and the threats of annexation against the country-will dominate the election race for five weeks.

Here’s a look at what you need to know about the election of Canada.

When is the elections?

Parliamentary elections will take place on Monday, April 28.

Under Canadian election rules, the federal campaign periods must be for at least 37 days, but no more than 51 days.

With Carney voting on Sunday and the elections set on April 28, this year’s campaign will be the shortest permitted law.

How do the elections work?

Canada has 343 federal electoral areas, known as Ridings.

Channel voters can vote for their favorite candidate in the ride in which they reside.

The country has an election system first, which means that the candidate who achieves the largest number of votes in the ride wins-even if they do not win a majority of votes.

They will then occupy their seats in the House of Representatives in the House of Commons in Canada, the House of Commons.

Who will be the next Prime Minister?

Under the Canadian Parliament regime, the party that wins most of the House of Commons is usually required to form a government. If a party gets most of the seats but not enough for an explicit majority, it seeks to form an agreement with another party – or parties – to be able to pass legislation.

He also becomes the leader of the largest individual party as prime minister; Canadians do not vote directly to the Prime Minister.

What are the parties in running?

Canada has four major federal political parties.

The liberals have been in the government since 2015 and had 152 seats in Parliament in a solution. The party was leading it before Justin TrudeauWho officially stepped as prime minister on March 14 to allow Carne to take this position.

The Conservative Party was occupied as an official opposition in Canada, with 120 seats in the previous parliament. Driving the party to forbidAnd he is a legislator in the Ottawa region known as his popular speech.

The new left -wing Democratic Party (NDP), led by Jagmeet Singh, was 24 parliamentary seats before the campaign was launched. The National Democratic Party was previously Support A liberal minority government led by Trudeau, but withdrew from that deal in September last year.

The bloc, Quebecais-, which only managed the candidates in the French-speaking province of Quebec, had 33 legitimate legislators. Eve Frankua Blanchett is led by them.

Regardless of the four large parties, there is also the Green Party in Canada, which had two seats in Parliament in its solution but is not expected to make any great gains in the next vote.

What do polls say?

Until recently, in January, conservatives had what many thought was a clear way to win a parliamentary majority.

But Trump’s threats against Canada, along with Trudeau’s decision to resign and Carney’s height as a new leader of the liberal party, I changed things: All modern opinion polls now refer to the liberals, either by a difference of leadership over the conservatives, or closed in a neck and censorship with their competitors.

The CBC News poll, which collects national polling data, received 37.5 percent support compared to 37.1 per cent for conservatives on Sunday.

The National Democratic Party was in third place with 11.6 percent, followed by the Bloc, Quebikua, with 6.4 percent. The vegetables were 3.8 percent.

“The liberals and conservatives are actually linked to national opinion polls with the new Democrats who fall behind in the third distant position,” CBC stated with the start of the election race.

“The liberals are likely to win the largest number of seats, and perhaps the majority government, if the elections are held today because of the most effective distribution of their support throughout the country.”

What are the issues that dominate the race?

The opposition parties – including, were in particular Issues of the ability to afford costsLike high grocery and housing costs.

But Trump’s tariff and threats to make Canada in the “fifty -first state” of the United States The conversation raised.

Experts now say that the central “polling question” in the election campaign will be any party that is best to prepare for Trump and manage Canada and the United States.

The leaders of the main political parties in Canada have admitted the Canadians’ concerns about Trump’s policies, and promised to defend the country’s sovereignty.