The resurrection of Canada’s Liberal Party was as close to miraculous as you can get in modern politics. Its savior: Prime Minister Mark Carney, a political rookie but also an experienced tactician and one of the world’s most highly regarded economists.
But in a farmer’s field on the eve of the election, Canada’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre continued to nurture a robust political movement that won the Conservative Party its largest share of the popular vote in decades.
Both leaders promised to vigorously stand up to the threat to annex Canada that came early, loudly and often from US President Donald Trump.
No, Canadians are not united against Trump. A significant percentage support him and a couple of provinces would like to take him up on his offer to join the US. Once again CNN is lying.
ReplyDeleteAs for Carney, it's not such a miracle.
The timing was perfect. Trump conveniently inflamed Canadian patriotism with his empty "We'll annex you!" threat, giving the government a bump in popularity. The prime mininster then shut down Parliament after resigning so his party could concentrate on having a leadership race. The leadership race was then fixed to ensure the new leader got overwhelming support without facing any real challenge from othen candidates (2 were kicked out of the race for threatening to do just that). What that meant, in effect, is that they started campaigning for the election two months before other parties could start and used the popularity bump from the leadership convention to their advantage during the election.
And during that campaign, it was all about Trump for them. The Conservative leader was lambasted for talking about other stuff, like what he'd do if he won, instead of constantly condemning Trump. And idiot Canadians bought it.