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More than half of Carney’s speech announcing the election was dedicated to the idea that Canada is under attack,
Leyland said
He has never really been seriously tested as a politician, so the debates [on April 16 and 17] will be very closely watched,
Leyland saidIt’s hard to communicate the head-spinningly unprecedented nature of this swing,
Leyland saidI don’t want to write Poilievre off. He is a very effective retail politician, good with crowds, and his message resonated for a long time. This is an election where the campaign could really matter.”
Still, Leyland addedHe has opted for the shortest possible campaign,
Leyland saidPeople are abandoning the NDP,
Leyland saidIt got 10m views in less than 24 hours, which is unheard of in Canadian politics,
Leyland Cecco saidThe biggest jump in Canadian patriotism has been in Quebec,
Leyland saidIt looked for a long time like Trudeau had stayed too long,
Leyland saidMr Trump, wake up! Ukrainians ARE the victims”.
The Express has a piece from a correspondent in KyivShe really hurt his campaign,
Leyland saidI would hope that we could put things on pause, is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election.”
Poilievre has not been helped by an interview given to the rightwing US outlet Breitbart by the Conservative premier of Alberta,Bank adds to growing pains for chancellor ... Labour
says the Times,Domestic abusers driving more victims to suicide, warn police
is the Guardian’s lead story todayThe polling suggests that the number one concern that Canadians have right now is the potential negative fallout of Donald Trump and the threatened tariffs,
said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist and founder of pollster Nanos Research
I'd rather deal with a liberal than a conservative."
Appearing on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, Trump professed not to care about who won the Canadian election and even said
It is hard to defend what the president has done on Canada. A lot of his other domestic and foreign policy initiatives, you can make the case, but this is pretty hard to make the case,
Colin Dueck, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at George Mason University, said
This shows the limits of what has sometimes been called the nationalist internationale. If the goal of the government is to pursue U.S. interests as it sees fit, then even if there’s sympathies with approaches in other countries, if it’s the U.S. [vs.] Canada, it’s going to be the U.S.,
says MillsI don’t think anybody cares,
Mills saidWe are going to be doing automobiles, which you’ve known about for a long time,
Trump told reporters at the White House