Millions of Canadians will be heading to the polls on April 28 for a snap federal election.

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with the governor general on Sunday and asked her to dissolve Parliament.

It is just one day before MPs were scheduled to return to Ottawa after Parliament was prorogued in early January.

This also comes just over a week after Carney was officially sworn in as prime minister after winning the Liberal leadership race.

The Liberals have been polling better since former prime minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced he was stepping down.

Dr. Tom Urbaniak, a political science professor at Cape Breton University, said he has never seen a party rebound like this in such a short amount of time.

“Incumbents were announcing they weren’t going to re-offer, and some Liberals are changing their minds. I think even the party themselves in their most optimistic moments did not imagine such a turnaround,” he said.

Urbaniak added it will be an election campaign like no other, and he wonders what the Conservative messaging will be.

At dissolution, the Liberals held 152 seats, the Conservatives had 120, the Bloc Québécois held 33, the NDP had 24 and the Green Party held two. There were three independent MPs and four vacant seats.

Calling a snap election means Carney will not have to present a throne speech or face the possibility of confidence motions.

The prime minister does not currently have a seat in the House of Commons.

More to come.