UPDATE 10:14 PM EST: CBC now projecting a Liberal Government.
Canadians hit the polls today to vote on a new leader.
Will they stick with the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney?
Or will they change to the Conservative Party and its leader Pierre Polievre?
All the polls will be closed by 10:00 PM ET.
The Conservative Party had a big lead in polls…until President Donald Trump started his tariff talks and annexing Canada. From Fox News:
“It looks like there will be a Liberal government, which seems to be what the polls point to, and it would be a very big surprise if the Conservatives won,” Angus Reid, founder and chair of the Angus Reid Institute, told Fox News Digital.—In an Angus Reid Institute poll released on Dec. 30, the Conservatives were in super-majority territory with 45% support, compared to the Liberals at 11%. The results of a poll released on Saturday had the Liberals at 44% with a four-point lead over the Conservatives at 40%.”This really has been an extraordinary election in that, by all rights, Canadians had it with the Liberals’ woke policies and with their misspending and didn’t like Trudeau,” Reid said.
Carney took over when Justin Trudeau resigned his post.
Reid said Trump became the “most important issue in the country overnight.”
“That gave Mark Carney an opportunity to be the first out of the gate to say that we’re not going to put up with this – we’re a sovereign nation and we’re going to fight,” added Reid.
An Ipsos poll on April 21 showed the Liberals at 41% and the Conservatives at 38%.
Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, echoed Reid about Trump affecting the Canadian election.
It helps that Trump has focused more on China, but it might be too late.
Bricker told Fox News:
“When Donald Trump is in the news saying 51st-state stuff, that brings the focus back to the major issue that the Liberals lead on, which is dealing with him,” said Bricker.”But over the past two weeks, Donald Trump has kind of gone dark on Canada. He’s been focused on China, U.S. government funding of Harvard University, and to the extent he’s talking about trade, it’s about global trade deals.”That, said Bricker, has resulted in many Canadians returning to their pre-Trump main issue of affordability, through the lens of the Liberals running the government over the past decade.
Aaaaand Trump mentioned Canada becoming the 51st state this morning:
Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!
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