Elections in Canada, the battle within the shade of Trump | EUROtoday

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The political elections in Canada, which can be held on April twenty eighth, have been attributable to Donald Trump (warfare of duties and threats to Canadian sovereignty) and from Trumpism are conditioned. In truth, Mark Carry, present prime minister and candidate of the liberals says: «There is quite a bit to do to place Canada safely, to spend money on Canada, to construct Canada, to unite Canada. Trump needs to destroy us in order that America can management us. It is our power that Americans need. They need our sources, our water, our land, our nation. We won’t enable it to occur. We won’t let him do it. Our reply should be to construct a powerful financial system and a safer Canada. “

The main opponent of Carney, Pierre Poiievre, leader of the conservatives, already author of the slogan Canada First, said in February that on the Americans it can no longer be entrusted, and for some time, says things similar to the Trumpian propaganda: he wants a government reduced against the excesses of the Trudeau era, sends anti-élite and populist messages, carries on an aggressive economic agenda, it is a cost of the accommodation. of inflation and immigration. He pushes on personal freedom, he wants lower taxes, he is hard on crime and softer than the opponents on the regulations of the Canadian oil industry, he fought the carbon tax commissioned by Trudeau. A conservative government, then said, will give priority to economic growth, including the rapid development of energy projects, which will help Canada become less dependent on trade with the United States.

Carany has opened his campaign with the promise to reduce the tax rate on the lowest income band of a percentage point, which, according to him, will save families up to 825 Canadian dollars (575 dollars) per year. It is estimated, Bloomberg reports that the tax change will cost about 6 billion Canadian dollars. When asked about how it would have financed it, the former banker reiterated his commitment to improve government efficiency through new technologies, including artificial intelligence, and to reduce spending. Poi then has promised a cut of taxes for families of the middle class.

For more than a year, Poilievre has been ahead in the polls by exploiting the frustration of most of the public opinion for the cost of life and the lack of housing and successfully connecting those problems to the policies of the previous government: until the resignation of Justin Trudeau was able to boast a double -digit advantage so that they were not few – even among the media – those who had already proclaimed him the next Canadian Prime Minister.

But the arrival of Trump and the succession of Carney to Trudeau disappeared the political framework. With Trump at the gates that speaks of Canada as a 51st American state and unleashes the war of duties, the themes of the campaign have changed: a nationalism has fueled that unites all the Canadians who feel threatened by the US president. “We went from an election wherein individuals wished change to an election that’s now not a query of management,” says Reuters Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs. “Trump is inserting essentially the most critical problem that our nation has confronted from the Second World War,” stated Chrystia Freeland, former overseas minister throughout a current debate amongst liberal leaders.