Who are Canadians voting for in this election?

Election day is finally upon us as a short but packed campaign reaches its climax.

Later on Monday, Canadians will discover who will lead their country into what seems like a difficult and uncertain future as the country faces a trade war with its biggest economic partner, the US.

The BBC has spoken to 10 voters about who they are voting for and what their chief concerns are. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

Here is what they had to say.

Gwendolyn, 69, is voting Conservative and said the last Liberal government destroyed Canada.

The reason I'm voting for the Conservative Party is because during the last 10 years, the Liberal government has really brought Canada to its knees. It's really made Canada a cautionary tale about what not to be.

Mark Carney is not a Messiah. He seems to be a very nice man, but not much more. I don't trust him, I see him as another Justin Trudeau, possibly even worse.

My top concern is not this so-called crisis with the US; I want Canadians to have some hope for the future, while right now there's a sense of despair.

I know many people saw Pierre Poilievre as an attack dog when he was the opposition leader, but since he's been campaigning to be PM, I've seen a different side of him. He seems to really be able to connect with ordinary people.

It's absolutely baffling [that the Conservatives lost a 20 point lead]. I think people are going to be very, very disappointed. The Liberals are the same party; Carney is just one person. And he's not going to change anything.

The 66-year-old engineer is a Conservative Party member, but voted Liberal this election.

Rather than vote for a party, I voted for the leader of the party. I voted Liberal, and that has much to do with Carney and the experience that he has.

When I'm hiring someone for work, I ask for a CV. You see the things [Carney] has done at the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and his competence and contacts impress me.

Poilievre is a career politician, and we've had nine years of a career politician.

I'm a Conservative Party member, I would normally have voted Conservative, but I don't think Poilievre has the required experience [to be prime minister].

It's probably the first time in my life I'm voting for a leader as opposed to a party.

Adam, 52, is a British-Canadian doctor working at a hospital on a remote Indigenous reserve.

The NDP is offering more to Indigenous people, and that's a big reason why I'll be voting NDP.

Indigenous voices and needs are getting lost in this election. So I'm most concerned about what Canada's next government is going to do about, for example, the scandal that there are reserves in one of the richest countries in the world where people still don't have clean running water. I judge a country by how it treats its neediest.

I think we can't forget about that just because of what is happening with US and Canada at the moment.

Stacey, 56, is so frustrated with the Liberal government that she is voting Conservative for the first time in her life.

I have been a lifelong federal Liberal Party voter and Liberal Party member. This year I voted Conservative, and I also got my Conservative membership.

The last 14 years of the Liberals hasn't done anything. There's been a lot of things that they did that have disaffected people.

I used to be in the military, and it drives me insane as a vet to see how this government has gutted the Canadian armed forces. If the US was going to try to take Canada, we wouldn't have a hope. If Russia decided to attack our north, we wouldn't have a hope.

I know that Trump is a big problem. But Mark Carney, all he's so far campaigned on is 'I'm the best man to deal with Trump'. All the big issues that were there before - housing, affordability, etc - those are still there. He's just Trudeau-lite. He's more of the same.

Alex, a 25-year-old recent graduate, said this election is about leadership.

I'm voting for my local Liberal candidate, and I want Mark Carney as our PM because I think he's the man for the job right now.

My election issue is leadership. It's about who's going to lead us, especially against the US.

Carney is not really a politician, which I like. He doesn't speak in soundbites. I also appreciate that he's way less showy - [former prime minister] Trudeau was a celebrity, but he's more down to earth.

I have a very unfavourable opinion of Mr Poilievre.

Most Canadians don't like Donald Trump, but there's a section of the Conservative base that does like him. And I do see a link between Trump and Poilievre. They're not the same, but [Poilievre] is definitely fishing in the same right-wing waters.

Cole, 21, will cast his first ever vote in a federal election for the Conservatives.

I've just been very disappointed by the Liberal leadership for the past decade - it's been half of my life - and I want to see a change.

It is the primary job of whoever becomes prime minister to focus absolutely on domestic policy and to make Canada stronger.

So I don't think renegotiating trade deals with the United States is going to be as important as dealing with internal issues.

And particularly in western Canada, [the Conservative] platform is focused on us a lot more than the Liberals' [platform] is.

Michael, a 60-year-old trucker who travels between the US and Canada, said he doesn't want to see populist politics in his home country.

I voted Liberal this time. Traditionally, I've been more centre/centre-left as a voter and in the past I've either voted for the Green Party or NDP.

I've respected Carney for years since he was the governor of the Bank of Canada and how he dealt with the 2008 crisis. Whether we like it or not, we're going to be hurting economically for the next five or 10 years. So we need someone who is an expert.

I've seen populist movements in countries like the US, Hungary, and Turkey, and that worries me. Finding groups of people - migrants, immigrants, whatever - to blame for society's problems instead of trying to figure out a solution worries me quite a bit.

I know Pierre Poilievre is not a Trump person, but my belief is that he saw how Trump built power in the US, and uses the same sorts of tactics to build his power here. That was a big turnoff.

The 20-year-old geography student said he voted for the New Democratic Party because they are the most different from the leadership in the United States.

I believe the NDP cares the most about people. They have a clear plan for housing and for public transit, and as artificial intelligence takes over jobs, they have a plan to increase welfare. I think they care the most about equally distributing the wealth among people, and are not ultra capitalistic.

My main concerns are housing, affordability and especially the environment. Recently, the Liberals and Conservatives have abandoned speaking about the environment. I thought the carbon tax was a good measure. I think it was misunderstood, and the NDP still supports [it].

Myron, 45, said he wants to see a united Canada at the end of this election.

I voted early because there's really only one clear choice right now. I voted for the Liberals. If the previous PM had stayed in power, then I would have had a very difficult decision to make.

Our country works better together, and I think somebody who knows how to use financial levers is a very good candidate.

I grew up in rural Manitoba, which is a very blue [conservative] area, and that's how I was raised.

Over the years, I've had life experiences that have shown me that the world isn't black and white, and that it's not simple to solve all its problems.

The 52-year-old said she supports the Liberals because Mark Carney has the most experience to deal with the US.

I plan to vote for the Liberals for Mark Carney. I believe that he has the best experience for the job in the face of the threat from the United States.

I have voted for all three parties in the past - Liberals, Conservatives and NDP. But this time, the Conservatives have gone way too far for me in their populist message.

I was most concerned with our relationship with the United States and climate change.

I think the Conservatives have backed away from climate change - they keep talking about 'axing the tax' and don't want to pay carbon tax. But climate change is real; it's a real thing and it's happening.

When Mark Carney said it would be a privilege to work for Canada, and that he was leaving the US and coming home to deal with this crisis - that really caught my attention.

BBC Voter Voices is hearing from Canadians around the country about what matters to them in this election.

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