Federal Election
Posted on March 25, 2025

Montreal, March 31, 2025 – With the start of the federal election campaign, experts from Concordia University are available to analyze and comment on the key issues in this election.
Our list will continue to evolve throughout the campaign to reflect new debates and will be updated regularly. Here is an overview of the topics on which our specialists can provide insight:
- Polls and Projections: Understanding the Evolution of Voting Intentions and Its Impacts
- Brooke Jeffrey, Professor in the Department of Political Science
Brooke.jeffrey@concordia.ca
- The NDP and the Power of the Working Class in the Face of Deindustrialization
- Steven High, Professor in the Department of History and author of The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class.
steven.high@concordia.ca
- International Business and Trade Agreements
Yu-Ping Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Director of the International Business (IBUS) Program
yu-ping.chen@concordia.ca
- Mehdi Farashahi, Professor in the Department of Management, and Director of the International Business Program
m.farashahi@concordia.ca
- Technology and Cybersecurity: Canada's Role in Innovation and Data Protection in the Electoral Context
- Mourad Debbabi, Dean of the Gina-Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science and an expert in cybersecurity, cyberforensics and critical infrastructure protection
- Mourad Debbabi
- Jeremy Clark, Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
- j.clark@concordia.ca
- Artificial intelligence and its impact on polling results.
- Fenwick McKelvey, co-director Applied AI Institute and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
- fenwick.mckelvey@concordia.ca
- Colleen Mc Cool, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication Studies
- colleen.mccool@mail.concordia.ca
- Immigration and Diversity: Issues and Perspectives in the Current Canadian Context
- Chedly Belkhodja, Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs
- chedly.belkhodja@concordia.ca
- Canada–United States Relations: Impact of U.S. Policies on Canada
- Donal Gill, Professor in the Department of Political Science
- Donal.gill@concordia.ca