Between the American tariff “Psychodrama“Or, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,” Thursday “and increasing evidence that the threats of Trump President of Canadian sovereignty are quite serious, it was a stressful time for Canadians seeking stability.
That may not have happened yet. Even while members of the Liberal Party prevail problems with registration to vote about Mr. Trudeauu’s heir at the head of the party and the country, the federal elections.
Long -term instability – one that could bring three Canadian premiere in one year – is reflected in an opinion exploration, where it finds itself in who is the best for managing this generational crisis of Canada, they seem to be ongoing.
To better understand this moment, we spoke with Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute, a research center.
This interview is decorated with length and clarity.
Much has changed since Mr. Trump has come to duty.
If this was telenovela, if this was a soap opera, Donald Trump inserted himself as the main character and the biggest plot of Canadian domestic policy.
[Read: How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious]
How did Liberal support move from Mr. Trudeau’s resignation on January 6th?
We chose dialing on December 31, which showed that liberals at 16 percent with voter intentions. It was one of the moving forces that really put the last nail in the coffin for Trudeau’s political career. One cannot help, but to think about the time-circularity of time-where he did not have that blowing with Chrystia Freeland in mid-December, if he had not tried to replace her with Mark Carney, he would still break.
And among conservative voters?
Pierre Poilievre spent a better part of last year sitting on a very comfortable lead of 20 points and asking the case that the voting issue must be in a relationship with change. They had to relate to carbon prices. They had to refer to the tired liberal government and the tired liberal brand, which was to be shown at the door. The question for the voting list is completely transformed into which the political leader is best suited for Trump. What we have seen in the last few days and weeks the conservative party is caught a little straight.
[Read: Trump’s Threats Against Canada Upend Conservative’s Playbook]
How do the Canadians feel?
Canada has a moment. Canadians have a moment when their blood is. According to some of our polls, 55 percent of Canadians say they feel angry about rhetoric and tariff; 37 percent say they feel betrayed; 30 percent say they feel anxious.
What are some of the characteristics of a future leader that could weigh voters to the Liberal Party?
You might think that Chrystia Freeland will have a stricter hill to climb Mark Carney, simply because he wears the luggage of the Vlad TRUDEAU. With Carney, the challenge is to try to shape itself as an outsider. But he was close to the liberal government as an advisor and for a while as more benevolent. A bigger challenge for both of them, but especially for Carney, is he a campaign? History is full of detritus of great new leaders sitting or housing at the top of old, tired fun brands. We saw this in 1984 with a leader who succeeded Pierre Trudeau. His name was John Turner. He grew on the polls and then somehow crashed. History tells us that what goes upstairs can be lowered.
What effect could Mr. Trump’s threats from Tariff and Canadian sovereignty on the general elections?
The challenge for Poilievre is that he is a little aside that he is not one of the main protagonists. Before Trump, and above all, it will be liberals in relation to conservatives; TRUDEAau a successor opposite Pierre Poilievre. Now is the one who opposes Trump, and it squeezes Poilievre a little. As he differs enough from the ruling liberals, and at the same time is the case on a electorate who is very angry with Trump, including most conservative voters who are very angry with Trump. You threaten sovereignty; This has an impact no matter where the Canadians sit on a political spectrum.
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Matina Stevis-Greidff is the head of the Canadian Office for The Times, leading the country covering.
Vjosa Isai is a New York Times journalist in Toronto.
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