Liberal PM Carney takes lead four weeks before Canada vote

Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal person Mark Carney has taken a beardown pb successful polls heading into a 2nd week of the predetermination campaign. Photo: ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP
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Four weeks earlier Canadians ballot successful a wide predetermination wherever threats by US President Donald Trump person taken halfway stage, Mark Carney has led a Liberal resurgence to instrumentality the pb successful polls implicit his main rival, Conservative Pierre Poilievre.

Since coming to bureau successful January, the US person has threatened the Canadian economy with precocious tariffs and repeatedly called for the state to surrender its sovereignty and go a portion of the United States.

Experts hold that the main question facing Canadians erstwhile they formed their ballot connected April 28 volition beryllium who -- existent Prime Minister Carney oregon Poilievre -- tin propulsion backmost against Trump.

"The system is the biggest contented for maine successful this election, including the full escaped commercialized happening with the United States," Ottawa elector Carol Salemi told AFP.

"We request immoderate benignant of dialog (with the US) and we request a beardown person to bash that," she said.

Danielle Varga, 22, echoed that viewpoint, saying Canada needs "someone that's beardown against America. It feels similar everyone's connected that aforesaid page, which is good."

At the moment, erstwhile cardinal banker and governmental novice Carney, who took implicit from Justin Trudeau arsenic PM successful mid-March, appears to acceptable the bill.

The 60-year-old has taken the state by storm, wholly reversing the fortunes of the Liberals who nether a beleaguered Trudeau were headed for an electoral wipeout.

Canada's Conservative person Pierre Poilievre campaigns successful vote-rich Ontario province. Photo: Jorge Uzon / AFP
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He is present starring successful the polls and, observers say, has a bully accidental of forming a bulk government.

"This is the astir important predetermination of our lifetime," Carney told run volunteers successful Ottawa connected Saturday. "It's captious successful redefining our narration with the United States (and) redefining our system connected our ain terms."

Carney interrupted his run this week aft Trump announced plans to enforce 25 percent tariffs connected car imports, coming connected the heels of levies connected alloy and aluminum.

Trump said helium had an "extremely productive" archetypal telephone with Carney connected Friday, adding that the 2 leaders "agree connected galore things."

That was a stark alteration successful code from a US president whose dealings with Trudeau had been frosty, and it was instantly picked up connected northbound of the border.

'Exceptional clip for Canada'

Conservative person Poilievre launched his run with an accent connected taxation cuts, affordable lodging and improvement of Canada's assets riches.

The 45-year-old vocation politician has sought to dispel comparisons with Trump -- some right-wing populists -- that person dimmed his entreaty successful Canada.

"President Trump has said helium wants the Liberals backmost successful power. We cognize why, due to the fact that they volition support Canada anemic and support our concern flowing retired of this country, to the US," helium said astatine a run halt successful Toronto connected Sunday.

Other parties specified arsenic Jagmeet Singh's leftist New Democratic Party and the separatist Bloc Quebecois led by Yves-Francois Blanchet person struggled to beryllium heard, arsenic voters absorption connected the 2 frontrunners successful this clip of crisis.

"This is genuinely an exceptional clip for Canada," said Ottawa University authorities prof Genevieve Tellier, adding: "Canada is looking for a savior."

This operation of pictures shows Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (L) and US President Donald Trump. They held their archetypal telephone connected Friday. Photo: Dave Chan, Mandel NGAN / AFP/File
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In a motion of the tensions, Carney declared connected Thursday aft Trump's latest tariffs announcement that the epoch of heavy economic, information and subject ties betwixt Canada and the United States "is over."

Tellier said Carney's "firm tone" and mentation that "relations with the United States would ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again" look to beryllium resonating with voters.

Those remarks person "captured the existent temper successful Canada," she said.

Voters are turning to Carney due to the fact that "they privation information and a reassuring fig successful times of crisis," added Daniel Beland of McGill University successful Montreal.

In a state of 41 cardinal people, 343 seats are astatine involvement successful this year's drawback election. The enactment that wins a bulk volition signifier the adjacent government, and its person volition go premier minister.

If nary enactment gains a wide majority, the enactment with the astir seats volition beryllium invited to effort to signifier a conjugation authorities with the assistance of smaller parties.

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Source: AFP