How Trump saved Canada’s libs
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What is the significance of Election Day in Canada?
It's Election Day in Canada, which is nothing new for reporter Stephanie Levitz.
I have covered, I believe this is my ninth federal election. But Stephanie says this one is without precedent. how it looked like the next campaign in this country was going to go. And it feels like that's all been flipped on its head. So you have the liberal campaign, which is led by Mark Carney, which is driving a narrative that says he's the guy to take on U.S. President Donald Trump. We can't change President Trump. So we need a leader that can stand up to him. His chief opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Palliev, running more on a cost of living narrative. We cannot afford a fourth liberal term. It's as though they're kind of evaluating them and imagining a boardroom and imagining the U.S. president at one end of the table and this leader at the other end of the table. And which one do I want to see in that seat?
How Trump's 51st state talk may have saved Canada's libs. Coming up on Today Explained.
How did President Trump influence the Canadian election?
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When we sat down with Stephanie Levitz from The Globe and Mail, we started talking about how it was just about a year ago that we sat down with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was eager to talk about his ambitious plans to invest in housing construction, affordable health care and child care, raising capital gains taxes.
These are things that actually meet people where they are in their cost of living and provide solutions for a better life. Those choices are going to be on the table in the next election. And I'm confident the Canadians are going to remain responsible, ambitious and optimistic about their future.
You know, I asked him if he should just step aside and he said, no, I still have something to offer the Canadian people. But it turned out the Canadian people weren't buying when he was selling.
I mean, that's pretty much it, right? When I think back about when he went on your podcast, he was trying to reach a different group of voters. He was trying to reach people, frankly, that his opponent, conservative leader Pierre Polyev, had been so successful reaching, which was millennials, younger Canadians, people really worried about their futures. And at that moment in time, those people were squarely behind Pierre Polyev and they weren't interested in Justin Trudeau because part of it was, well, thanks, where you been? You've already been in power for nine years.
And so as this campaign sort of drags on, Trudeau has to finally face the music and he announces that he will be stepping aside. But it seems like right as he's in the process of stepping aside, all of a sudden the liberals do get a boost from a very unlikely source. Is that accurate?
Canada and the United States, that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like. This is one of the wild turning points of our election. So you have the liberals down in the dumps. Nothing is going right for them. And then in December, in this like Shakespearean political moment, his finance minister and deputy prime minister, Krista Freeland, quit. On the very morning, she was supposed to deliver a major economic update for the government. And when she quit, it was to tell Justin Trudeau that she didn't think he had the chops to guide the country in a trade war with the United States. Now in a letter posted to X addressed to the Prime Minister, Freeland says the Prime Minister and her have found themselves at odds over the past few weeks about the best path forward for Canada.
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