Pre-Election Spending Limits on Party Ads Don’t Apply Without Fixed Voting Day

Pre-Election Spending Limits on Party Ads Don’t Apply Without Fixed Voting Day
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets people having lunch at a White Spot restaurant in Coquitlam, B.C., on July 8, 2021. The Canadian PressDarryl Dyck
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OTTAWA—Canadian party leaders worked their way around the country this week, in what some see as a sure sign the pandemic is near its end, but also as proof that a federal election is on its way.

But with the fixed-election date still more than two years away, does a pre-election campaign that looks like a pre-election campaign and smells like a pre-election campaign, actually qualify as a pre-election campaign?