Jordan Peterson contends that the leaders' debate was effectively won by those who controlled the selection of the topics beforehand, framing the discourse around progressive priorities.

“the debate was won or lost before it even started and the reason for that was because of the topics that were chosen”

Rex Murphy believes the current election was called prematurely and for cynical reasons, specifically to secure a majority government, rather than out of necessity.

“there are only two reasons why you would throw away two years of an already established mandate for the hope of four years on a gamble the one is the polls the second is this this is the deeper one for me anyway and i'm not a conspiracy guy all that money going out not being properly accounted for p”