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In a march in London, Ontario, on Friday, the crowd screams while Mark Carney handed over his primary campaign on the existential threat facing Canada from its neighbor.
The liberal leader warned: “President Trump is trying to break us so that America can possess us.”
“Never”, the supporters shouted. Many of the extended Canadian flags are registered on ice hockey sticks.
Similar levels of emotion were also shown in the Federation Hall, where Pierre Puyviri received supporters of enthusiasm in the Toronto area earlier in the week.
The conservative leader attracted great crowds to the gathering throughout the country, where “returning home” is an invitation to weapons: whether to vote in order to change the government and a gesture of the Canadian national wave in the face of the threats of the American tariff.
In the last hours of the 36 -day campaign, Donald Trump’s shadow waved everything. The two -election winner is likely to be the party that is able to persuade voters that they have a plan to deal with the American president.
National opinion polls indicate that the liberals have maintained tight progress that enters another extension.
However, Trump is not the only factor in playing – it has been mentioned only once in the Poilievre’s STUMP speech.
The conservative leader has focused more on voters who mocked what he calls the “lost liberal contract”, and promised a change from a government that blames him for a lack of housing and a slow economy, and for simple social issues such as crime and the fentian crisis.
Echo with voters such as Eric and Carrie Geret, from Barry, Ontario. They have two daughters in the mid -twenties and said they were attending his first political gathering ever.
“We are financially safe – but I am concerned about them,” Eric Geret said. While he and his wife could buy their first house while Young was, “there is no possibility”, their children would be able to do the same.
“I am excited to be here,” said Carrie Gionet. “I am optimistic.”
The benefit of frustration with voters helped the opposition parties to sweep governments from power in democracies around the world. Canada looked almost sure of its example.
Last year, the conservatives ranked 20 points in national opinion polls over the ruling liberals for several months. The future of Poilievre looked as the next prime minister in the country.
Then a series of shock waves came in a rapid sequence at the beginning of 2025, where the political scene raised: Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Kareni’s subsequent rise to the liberal leader and the Prime Minister; Trump’s return to the White House with the threats and definitions that followed.
By the time when the elections were summoned in mid -March, Carney Liberals were investigating the conservatives, and by early April, they had moved a little forward, as national polls indicated.
It was an amazing reflection of wealth. Apparently dead and buried, liberals now believe that they could win a fourth consecutive elections, and even the majority in Parliament.
Carney shows himself as the most prepared man to fulfill this critical moment – a fixed central bank that helped the economy sponsor in Canada through the 2008 financial crisis and after that, the UK by the exit of Britain from the European Union.
For conservative voters, Jindoline Siluver, 69, from Samsaid in Prince Edward Province, his appeal is “confusing.”
“Many people believe that Mark Carney is a kind of Christ,” she said. “It is the same party, it’s one person. It will not change anything.”
For Carney supporters, they see a strong biography and a balance that calmed down on Trump’s threats to sharp tariffs and repeated suggestions that the country should become the 51st American state – although the president was repeatedly commenting on Canada during the campaign.
“I am very admired by stability and the dangerous thinking of Mark Carney,” said Mike Brennan, Ontarrio, while he was standing in a queue to meet the liberal leader in a cafe in Cambridge.
Mr. Brennan is a “liberal life” that he initially planned to vote for the party in these elections because of his hatred of Rudo.
Shashi Corle, head of the Angus Reed Institute, a non -profit public opinion research organization, said that the departure of former Prime Minister Trudeau, who has grown increasingly unpopular over the course of his contract in power, issued a “massive pressure valve”.
She said: “All these angry liberals who either stand with their votes with the National Democratic Party (left) or will return their votes with the conservatives begin to re -win.”
Mrs. Corle said that more indulgent liberals and other progressive voters began immigration towards liberals in Carney, led by Trump, the “main character” in these elections.
“The threats, and the conversation of annexation, all of this was a great incentive to the left of the voters at the center.”
I worked on the Kareni feature, with Trump’s tariff threats that give the political Newfight – he is the first prime minister who has not occupied an elected general position – the opportunity to publicly test to keep his job during the campaign.
Trump’s Declaration late in March allowed international fees on foreign car imports to Carne to stay away from the corridor, take over the prime minister’s cloak, make a call with the President and meet the US Cabinet Ministers.
It was absolutely not tested in an arduous federal electoral campaign, through its continuous travel, the requirements of the high retail policy and the audit of the daily media. However, in the Campaign path, and in the high debate with party leaders, it is considered a good performance.
On the contrary, Poilievre is a veteran politician and polished performance. But on the changing political land, the conservatives seemed to struggle to find their foot, burning their message from Canada to “Canada first”.
Poilievre had to draw criticism from political competitors as “Trump Light”, with his combat style, his promises to end the “waking ideology” and the desire to bear the “global elite”.
“I have a completely different story about Donald Trump,” He said.
More about the Canadian elections:
The Canadians voted historically in conservative or liberal governments, but the smaller parties – such as the National Democratic Party or the QUEéCois Bloc, a sovereign party that runs only the candidates in Quebec Province – in the past formed an official opposition.
In this campaign, both suffer and face the possibility of losing a number of seats in the House of Commons, as voters turn to the two main political parties.
If the liberals and conservatives succeed in obtaining more than 38 % of a stake vote at the national level, opinion polls indicate, this will be the first time that it has happened since 1975.
The message was from the National Democratic Party – which helped the minority liberal support in the last government – in recent days of campaigns was to vote strategically.
“You can make the difference between Mark Carney gets a super majority or send enough new Democrats to Ottawa so that we can fight to defend the things you care about,” said Ghambet Singh’s leader earlier this week.
The campaign also highlighted the divisions in festivals along the regional lines.
With a large part of the campaign dominated by the relationship between the United States and Canada and the commercial war, many issues – climate, migration, and original reconciliation – were in the case of Backburner.
Even when the campaigns focused on other policies, the discussion focused on the country’s economic future.
Both applicants in strokes agree on priorities: the need to get rid of dependence on the United States; Development of oil, gas and mining sectors; Protecting workers affected by definitions; And increased defense spending.
But they do not agree to who is the best to lead Canada forward, especially when much is at stake.
“It is time for experience, not experiments,” Carney told London.
Poilievere was closed: “We can choose to change on Monday. We can regain control of our lives and build a bright future.”
Additional reports from Ali Abbas Ahmadi
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