The new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Snap election for April 28 on Sunday, saying that he needs a strong mandate to deal with the threat arising out by US President Donald Trump, which “wants to break us to break us to break up the US.”
Although the next election was not till 20 October, Carney is hoping to capitalize on a remarkable recovery by his Liberal Party in the elections since January, when Trump began threatening Canada and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation.
“We are facing the most important crisis of his lifetime due to President Trump’s improper trade works and our dangers to our sovereignty,” Carney said.
To secure Canada to secure Canada, to invest in Canada, to build Canada, to unite Canada, there is a lot to unite Canada. That is why I am asking my fellow Canadian people for a strong positive mandate. I have just requested that the Governor General dissolved the Parliament and called the election for April 28, and she agreed, “Carney told a personal representative after the Governor General – the Canada’s individual representative said.
The former two -time central banker Carney captured the liberal leadership two weeks ago with a previous political or election campaign experience, persuading party members and he was the best person to deal with Trump.
Now they have five weeks to win canadians. Elections suggest that liberals, who have been in power since 2015 and have been badly ahead of their rivals, leaving the official conservatives badly behind in the beginning of the year.
Darel Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, said, “We went from an election, where people wanted a change in an election that is actually a lot of leadership.”
He said, “The capacity of the conservatives to attack liberals has reduced greatly, as people focus on the future here and now, not what happened in the last 10 years, not,” he said by phone.
The conservatives have sought to portray Carney as an elite class, which plans to continue the Trudeau-era policy of high government spending. They also accuse them of being clear how they transferred their personal financial property to a blind trust.
When asked about the trust, Carney did last week, and asked the reporter to get entangled in “struggle and sick will”. The prickly response may hopes to conservatives that Carney may stumble during her first campaign.
The key to any win will be a good performance in the French speaking province of Quebec. When asked to answer in French, the first question was misunderstood and then asked to answer in English.
On the other hand, conservative leader Pierre Poilavere, innocent French speaks and is an experienced politician who has contested seven elections.
Laura Stephenson, a political professor at Western University in Canadian city of London, said that Carney’s inexperience could not be important given the trump factor.
“There is a different kind of comparison that is being made right between leaders and what they are going to be able to do,” he said. “I feel that we are going to see a little more grace than being given to politicians during this campaign.”
An online Angus Reid Pole of 4,009 people released on Monday placed 42% public support and conservatives at 37%. Angus Reid said that the margin of the error was about 1.5%, 19 out of 20.
Pole, an online leg of 1,568 people for the National Post, placed liberals released on the same day with conservatives at 39% at 42%. Legar said the margin of the error was about 2.5%, 19 times out of 20.
