Canada Electoral Debate: Professions – New York Times

Four of Canada’s political leaders met on Thursday for a debate in an electoral campaign during which President Trump’s potentially paralyzing prices and his Canada annexation calls were submitted above all other issues.

Politicians have repeatedly referred to the challenges posed by Mr. Trump as a crisis for Canada. But three candidates stacked the fourth: Prime Minister Mark Carney, the former central banker of Canada and England, who took the office last month after being elected the leader of the Liberal Party.

The opponents of Mr. Carney understood his main competitor, Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, who, for a large part of the past year, had dominated the polls and seemed to go towards a certain victory in the federal elections of April 28. Mr. Carney’s passage in Mr. Trump’s economic and political assault against Canada has since reversed the fortune of the conservatives, the liberals benefiting from a slight advance in the ballot boxes.

The other candidates were Jagmeet Singh of the New Democratic Party and Yves-François Blanchet, the chief of the Bloc Québécois, a party which promotes the independence of Quebec and only directs the candidates in this province.

Here are the main points to remember from the two -hour debate.

None of the candidates had concrete ideas on the regrowth against President Trump.

All politicians have agreed that President Trump’s economic policies and his proposal to annex Canada have created a crisis.

But none of them proposed specific details on how they would get the American leader to change course, beyond the general discourse of difficult negotiations to which they would affirm the sovereignty and economic independence of Canada.