There's no clear front-runner, no overarching election issue, and both major national party leaders are taking personal shots at each other in what has become ‘personal’ and ‘ugly’ between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, says pollster and Ipsos president Darrell Bricker. It's a dirty election.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Oct. 7, 2019, before the English-language televised debates in Gatineau, Que. The current election campaign is one of the dirtiest in recent history, say some political insiders. The prime minister was forced to wear a bulletproof vest at a crowded campaign rally in Mississauga, Ont., on Saturday night, and talked about the 'polarization' of this election campaign on Sunday in Toronto.