Summary

Donald Trump’s return to office and his aggressive trade policies have dramatically reshaped Canadian politics.

His 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, combined with disparaging comments about Canada’s sovereignty, have sparked widespread anti-Trump sentiment.

Formerly struggling, the Liberal Party has seen a surge in support, nearly erasing a 20-point Conservative lead.

Newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney, a financial expert with no prior elected experience, now faces the challenge of responding to Trump’s actions. Meanwhile, Canada has retaliated with tariffs, boycotts, and diplomatic resistance, escalating tensions between the two nations.

96 points

Best thing to come out of the Trump presidency thusfar. Glad our Canadian neighbors are resisting the conservative takeover, even though we aren’t.

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39 points

We’re trying, but PP’s cons still have a chance, because most of the Liberal gains have come from other smaller parties, ie: the NDP and the Greens.

We have yet to break through the Con brainwash in any meaningful way.

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18 points

CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp

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Definitely true, but the Liberals are starting to pull from the Cons a little bit from what I’ve seen. His first move being killing the consumer carbon tax killed both of PP’s talking points (carbon tax & Trudeau), while also showing that he’s different than Trudeau. That mixed with the fact that he’s kind of the stereotypical definition of a “fiscally aware” conservative politician where his entire focus is getting the country’s financials all in order above all else; at least if we ignore dealing with the sovereignty threats.

All that to say, I think he’ll more and more start pulling in the moderate conservatives that aren’t completely bought into the Facebook cesspit politics. PP is already very disliked to them so it wouldn’t take much

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4 points

Iirc around a 35% chance of a CPC majority

Fingers crossed for a coalition

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7 points

That’s kinda Trump’s thing.

He lets his crazy off the chain, and occasionally, good things happen by accident.

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4 points

It’s like drowning, but when you were first plunged into the drowning experience at least you were dying of thirst.

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4 points

That’s probably fair, at least to a point.

Trump is loud, crazed, and vulgar, but at the end of the day all he really is is just a louder, exceedingly public version of the things the US already does outside of the public eye.

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24 points

Until we have an actual election result, all of this is kind of pointless. Let’s see what happens on election day. I fear it will be close.

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10 points

Yes, the media are very good at celebrating prematurely and spreading complacency, and right-wingers are good at last-minute nasty surprises.

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It’s kind of burying the lede to just remark PP is likened to “Trump light.” He has likened himself by exclusively pulling from Trump’s playbook, with the divisive rhetoric, outright untruths, dog-whistling, name calling, verb the noun slogans, and quite literally “Canada First” signs he still hangs in his speeches.

In Alberta he’s repeatedly espoused support for Danielle Smith’s insane policies, her personal hero and inspiration being the real “Trump light,” Ron DeSantis. Nevermind they have openly acknowledged (before the craziness) they’d rather work with Poiliviere, and he’s been heralded in the MAGA circles as Canada’s Trump moment (with a complete absence of the irony).

If he put on 200 lbs and lost all natural skin color, he’d be a slightly more articulate Trump impersonation.

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How can the people of Canada vote for anyone in Trump’s camp? Anyone who has said they agree with Trump should be voted against 100%. Why give someone the power to hand the country over to this orange sack of shit?

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22 points

Conservatives want to be ruled by a king. That’s why they are conservatives.

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8 points

This is the fucking thing this is the fucking thing

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I feel like they want to watch their boogeymen get ruled and conquered by a king… I’m not so sure they’re thinking far enough ahead to realize their own eventual subjugation and domination, unless they’re rich, isn’t worth watching others suffer.

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2 points

Technically, in Canada they are.

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9 points

This could have been a perfect Fresh Prince pun in an alternate editorial timeline.

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