Voters head to the polls in three federal byelections in B.C., Ontario and Quebec

Federal byelections in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia are scheduled for Monday. Two of the ridings are seen as safe seats for the Liberal Party, both previously held by former cabinet ministers. In Quebec, the Conservatives may face challenges as the region had previously elected the Conservative Party four times consecutively.

Former Trudeau-era cabinet minister Jonathan Wilkinson recently vacated his seat, heading to Europe for diplomatic work. The Liberal Party's candidate in this riding is Braeden Caley, a former deputy chief of staff to Mark Carney. The Conservative candidate, Stephen Curran, is a commercial lawyer who finished second to Wilkinson in the last election.

The New Democrats are represented by Stephen Tweedale, a party staffer, while the Conservatives have Jim Sybros as their candidate.

In a rural Quebec riding, incumbent Richard Martel narrowly won the last election for the Conservatives, but the party lost five seats in Pierre Poilievre’s caucus after Carney nominated him for a Senate seat. Daniel Gobeil, a dairy farmer and former dairy association president, is running for the Liberals in this riding. Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University, believes the Saguenay region has been heavily affected by U.S. tariffs and that the trade war has not negatively impacted the federal government in Quebec.

According to a recent Angus Reid Institute poll, 85 per cent of Quebecers supported the government's decision to negotiate with the U.S. As a result, Béland believes the Liberal Party is likely to benefit from this byelection.