Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to call a snap election to improve his parliamentary standing.

It was a contest no one wanted (or expected) and the move seems to have backfired spectacularly. Hectored by anti-vaxxers, lambasted for his COVID record and lampooned as ‘UnCanadian’ for calling a contest in a pandemic, Trudeau is hoping to preserve his current number of seats, let alone dream of increasing it.