Mississauga: Canadian leaders campaigned in the battlefield districts on Saturday, two days before an electrified vote by the threats of US President Donald Trump, with Prime Minister Mark Carney favored after having assured voters that he can resist Washington.
A victory for the Liberal Party of Carney would mark one of the most dramatic reversals in Canadian political history.
On January 6, the day the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign, his liberals followed the conservatives of more than 20 points in most polls, and the conservative chief Pierre Hairy seemed certain to be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
But in the following weeks, Trump deployed a barrage of rigid tariff policies while speaking on the absorption of Canada to the United States several times.
Indignant Canadians have since hung the American anthem at sporting events and have canceled American travel plans.
When Carney replaced the unpopular Trudeau on March 14, he anchored his message squarely on Trump’s threats.
The 60-year-old man, who has never held his duties, but has managed the Central Banks in Canada and Great Britain, argued that his global financial experience made him the ideal candidate to defend Canada against Trump’s volatile trade policies.
The Prime Minister spent the second day of the campaign in the crucial province of Ontario, making stops in communities near Toronto who have already balanced between Liberal and Conservative.
“President Trump’s trade war has literally broken the world economy and he betrayed Canada,” Carney told a rally in Mississauga, a city just west of Toronto.
“Canadians are on the shock of this betrayal, but we must never forget the lessons,” he added, before directing his attacks in Hairyvre, who supports has no experience and the economic sense to carry out during a trade war.
“We don’t need chaos, we need calm. We don’t need anger, we need an adult,” said Carney.
He will end the day with a gathering in Windsor – the hub of a Canadian automotive industry hit hard by Trump’s prices.
Frantic campaign
The Trump factor and the Trudeau-For-Carney exchange have unstable Hairyvre, a 45-year-old man who has been in parliament for two decades.
But the conservative chief tried to keep attention on the questions that pushed anger at the liberals during the decade of Trudeau in power, in particular the increase in life costs.
He campaigned in the province of the west coast of British Columbia on Saturday before an evening rally in Ontario.
“You cannot manage another four years,” he told Delta, British Columbia, reaffirming his message that Carney would provide a continuation of the Trudeau era.
“To the single mother whose refrigerator, the stomach and the bank account are all empty and do not know how she will feed her children tomorrow, to have the hope that the change is on the way,” he said.
Hairyis also criticized Trump, but blamed bad economic performances under the Liberals to have left Canada vulnerable to American protectionism.
Tighten the race?
The polls are planning a liberal government, but the race has tightened in its last days.
The voting aggregator for the public broadcaster CBC at various times given the Liberals a national lead from seven to eight, but on Saturday, she provided liberal support to 42.5%, with the Tories at 38.7.
A crucial factor that could help the liberals are the number sagged for the new left -wing democrats and the separatist block of the block.
During the previous elections, stronger support for these parties led to liberal seats in the main provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.
A record of 7.3 million 28.9 million voters eligible in Canada voted for the first ballots during the Easter weekend, an increase of 25% compared to 2021.
‘A strange campaign’
For the political scientist at McGill University, Daniel Beland, conservative efforts to “change the subject of the campaign” far from Trump have largely failed.
Tim Powers, a political analyst, agreed that the “strange campaign” full of surprises is not the one the conservatives wanted.
They had hoped “that there would be more debate on affordability and all the things on which they are marked points,” he said, adding Hairy “envisaged a campaign where Justin Trudeau would be his opponent”.
The winner should be known a few hours after closing the polls on Monday.
