On Monday, December 7, six federal by-elections will be held across the country: three in Quebec, two in Ontario, and one in Saskatchewan. You have to go back to May 2002 to find that many by-elections held on the same day.
This set of six elections should offer us a rare opportunity to gauge the pulse of the Canadian electorate, as Mark Carney’s Liberals have passed the first third of their term.
But the Liberals won’t be the only ones tested that evening. Each of the four major federal parties will have something to defend and could suffer setbacks that might leave a lasting mark for the remainder of this parliamentary session.