Carney will ask Governor General to dissolve Parliament Sunday and call election, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney volition inquire the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and telephone a national predetermination this Sunday, Radio-Canada has learned.

The predetermination run volition footwear disconnected hardly a week aft Carney was sworn in as premier minister and appointed his cabinet.

Carney's travel to Rideau Hall to talk to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon volition travel a time earlier MPs were scheduled to instrumentality aft Parliament was prorogued on Jan. 6. 

An predetermination run is expected to past betwixt 36 and 50 days. Election time remains to beryllium confirmed, but voters are expected to formed their ballots connected either April 28 oregon May 5, according to sources that spoke with Radio-Canada.

Carney is making the telephone against a backdrop of nationalist sentiment polls that person placed the Liberal Party conscionable retired beforehand successful the coming contest. 

According to CBC's Poll Tracker, the Liberals led by Carney are starring with 37.7 per cent, compared to Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives who basal conscionable beneath that astatine 37.4 per cent support. 

While adjacent successful the fashionable vote, the Liberal voter base is dispersed much evenly crossed the country, which gives them a chiseled vantage successful the fig of seats they could triumph implicit the Conservatives who person concentrated support successful Alberta and Saskatchewan. 

The CBC Poll Tracker suggests that if a ballot were to instrumentality spot now, the Liberals could unafraid 176 seats to the Conservatives 133.