It’s election day, so make sure you go out and vote. Seriously. And if you think that parties will somehow get the message that you’re disgusted with them if you refuse to vote or you spoil your ballot, well, no, they won’t care. Being a grown-up means making unpalatable choices, and it’s your responsibility in a liberal democracy to make that choice, no matter how terrible it is.

Meanwhile, all of the party leaders were in BC for their final pitches to voters, Justin Trudeau in West Vancouver, Port Moody, Surrey, Vancouver, and Victoria, to give his final push about choosing a progressive government and not $53 billion in cuts.

Andrew Scheer was a number of Vancouver ridings to tell Quebeckers that voting for the Bloc meant another referendum (never mind that Jason Kenney is the only premier promising a referendum these days), while also repeating various lies including that he would get rid of the carbon tax in that province, which is false because it’s provincial and neither provincial party has any interest in getting rid of it. Honestly, this isn’t hard.

Jagmeet Singh was similarly in Vancouver and Surrey to tell young voters to vote with their hearts (and by extension ignoring the fact that his promises are largely in provincial jurisdiction or based on American realities and not Canadian ones).

This is what we’re dealing with. Make your choice.

Other election stories:

• Today’s success for the parties will depend on their volunteers getting out the vote.
• Here’s a look at the shift in the feeling on the Conservative campaign as they spent the last 48 hours making up new lies.
• Here is yet another look at the resurgence of the Bloc, how it reinvented itself and why the attacks of the other leaders are now out of step.

Good reads:

• Social policy groups think their messages got short shrift in the campaign (really?) and are gearing up for post-election advocacy efforts.
• There has been a proliferation of far-right messaging in Chinese-language social media, but nobody seems to want to do anything about it.
• Jason Markusoff says that Trudeau will need an “Alberta unity strategy” if he wins tonight, which will mean going ahead with Trans Mountain (which is a no brainer).
• Susan Delacourt encourages us to stick it to those foreign disinformation services by going out and voting.
• Chris Selley is baffled by Scheer’s refusal to answer on the Cult of the Insider story that dominated over the weekend.

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