As The Logic’s reporters have fanned out across the country over the last few weeks, covering Canada’s federal election campaign from Newfoundland and Labrador to B.C. and as far north as Iqaluit and Ontario’s Ring of Fire, I’ve been struck in particular by the incredible photojournalism we’ve been able to publish.

Though the U.S. has been a focus of this campaign, amid threats to our economy and questions about our resilience, it has helped reconnect me with this beautiful country, and with its strong patriotic spirit and innovative drive that touch all three coasts. 

If you haven’t read all the stories in our On the Trail series, I do hope you’ll take some time to do so. 

As a newsroom that covers business and technology, we’re naturally susceptible to the gravitational pull of the country’s big commercial centres—the financial hub on Toronto’s Bay Street, the tech scene in Kitchener-Waterloo, the energy sector in Calgary, Vancouver’s cohort of biotech companies and Montreal’s AI community. I hope that our coverage over the last few weeks has served as a reminder that building Canada—truly building it—means doing the hard work of paving roads, erecting homes and supplying clean water across this vast land. 

As you get ready to cast your vote, I hope you’ll also take the time to read The Logic’s feature profiles on the two men most likely to be prime minister. David Reevely and Laura Osman set out to learn what they could about how Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney would lead, and how they would manage government. They came up with some fascinating insights into what drives these two, and how they make decisions. 

In 2024, we began a polling partnership with Abacus Data, asking Canadians which leader they trusted most to manage the country’s assorted economic issues. We weren’t sure we’d see any movement. But over the last few months, our polling has reminded us not to make assumptions about Canadians, or take them for granted. We’ll see whether the polls bear out on election day, but it’s clear that this election was all about the economy and who you trust to lead it. 

Whoever forms government after this election, they will face the urgent problem of solving Canada’s productivity crisis. We also kicked off our Resilient Canada series during this campaign. Led by economics columnist and editor-at-large Kevin Carmichael, it goes behind the macro statistics and into what’s really driving the problem, and how we can fix it. It will continue to roll out in the weeks to come. 

All our journalism during this campaign tried to serve one purpose: to give you the information you needed to make an informed decision when you vote. As soon as Monday night, we’ll know what our next government will look like, and our work will begin anew as we hold it accountable to you. Until then, thank you for reading—and please go and exercise your democratic privilege.