VANCOUVER—In the battleground provinces of Canada’s 43rd general election — Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia — people are searching Google more for information about the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois than either of the two parties most likely to form government, according to a Google Trends site summarizing the Canadian federal election.

According to the site, which gives information on search volumes in provinces as a score from 1-100 (100 is the peak number of searches for the term) instead of an absolute value, shows that the party getting searched the most in Ontario and B.C. in the last seven days was the Green Party, while the Bloc Québécois got the most searches in Quebec.

The party searched the most across the country were the Conservatives, who accounted for 32 per cent of searches for Canadian political parties in the last seven days. Next were the Greens (30 per cent) then the Liberals (16 per cent) the Bloc Québécois (11 per cent) and the People’s Party (10 per cent). The NDP were only 1 per cent of searches for political parties in Canada over that time.

In the report, which is publicly accessible and updated live, Google identified seven topics as the top-searched political issues throughout the campaign period: health, cannabis, tax, education, trade, immigration, and crime.

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Cannabis has not been a major talking point during the campaign, but its recent search prominence could be explained by the fact that it has been one year since the substance was legalized for recreational use in Canada.

The site also shows that, in the last eight years, search interest in “elections” in Canada peaked during the 2016 American presidential election. Search interest at the time of Canada’s last federal election in 2015 was roughly half that amount.

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