Recently, Donald Trump relaxed his imperial rhetoric and stopped calling Canada the next 51. The US state (and its premiere governor), but at the same time he introduced customs duties to goods from his northern neighbor. In a country where over 70 percent Exports just go to the United States, this move is seen as a practical part of theoretical threats to Canada's sovereignty.
In a short time, Trump became the number one public enemy in Canada – According to the league 79 percent survey Canadians have a negative attitude towards the American president, and if the inhabitants of Canada could vote in the US, Trump would get only 15 percent. votes. In this atmosphere, the result of the upcoming elections in Canada will most likely decide, who is the most reliable leader in the national resistance against the expansionist leader from Washington.
“Canadian captain”
According to the polls, the answer is quite unambiguous. Voters with a ratio of 46 to 28 percent They consider the current prime minister and leader of the liberal Canadian Party Marek Carney to be a more reliable guarantee of resistance to Trump's America. This experienced economist spent a significant part of his career at the head of the Central Bank – first Canadian and then British. He emanates peace, is credible and reliable.
He successfully managed the institutions during the crisis: Canadian during the financial crisis after 2008, and the British during Brexit. Just a few months ago he would probably be politically useless – a cosmopolitan, a member of global elites, technocrat from Davos. Now that the southern neighbor of Canada emanates chaos and aggression, citizens value his mastery, meaning going beyond Canada and the fact that “knows things”.
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Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney during the election rally of the Liberal Party in Peterborough in the province of Ontario, 19 April 2025.
In the minds of voters he was reborn as a kind of “reliable dad” – he himself, referring to the hockey tradition, has nothing against calling him “Captain Canada”. A former banker, and now a politician, he actually played hockey in Edmonton in his youth.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Pierre Pilievre is a professional politician, once the youngest Canadian MP, who practically never dealt with anything else. Despite this, he managed to make a few mistakes, inadvertently taking over the style of the greatest populist of our time, Donald Trump. Poilievre is not as pompous as the American president, but in many respects he really reminds him of, and Canadians “hear” Trump in his rhetoric.
Pride and a sense of community
The leader of conservatives attacks the media and “vocalism” directly, uses the slogan “Canada First”, and at the same time talks about his homeland as hell on earth, which he thinks is the work of liberals. However, at the time of increased patriotic moods of Canadians, he walks on thin ice.
It is not that the northern US neighbors are enthusiastic about high housing prices and the general economic situation, but about the fact that Trump woke them pride and a sense of community. Popilievre's sharp words, slandering Canada after the rule of liberals, suddenly sound like rhetorical treatments that Canadians can observe in neighboring United States. Carney sounds calm and mature.
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre during a press conference in Ontario, March 17, 2025.
Poilievre may rightly complain that history has not treated him well. Many suggestions that Carney currently dominate in polls are very similar to his own. For example, the liberals under the leadership of the former Prime Minister Trudeau introduced carbon tax, which is – to put it mildly, very unpopular among Canada citizens as part of the fight against climate change. However, after Carney took over the leadership in the country after Trudeau's resignation, he abolished the hated tax for ordinary consumers (companies still pay him).
During the sense of national threat, he apparently decided that this was not the right time on climate sacrifice. During the television debate, he could only sympathize with his opponent and state that “he has a difficult task: he started against Trudeau and carbon tax, and now there is neither one or the other.”
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Carney practically completely eliminated controversial cultural issues from the rhetoric of his party. Poilievre, therefore, cannot fight with vocalism, genderism or other favorite scars of conservative politicians. He has nothing else to do but start distance from Donald Trump at the last minute, whom he called for retreat.
However, this does not sound reliable – at least the polls indicate that what seemed to be a certain victory in winter, now it is most like political Waterloo. Perhaps Poilievre will receive a generous consolation prize from his American idol in the form of at least two weeks of leave at MAR-A-Lago.
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