What’s on voters’ minds as Canada elects a new prime minister
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tomorrow is the end of voting in Canada to elect a new prime minister. |
| 0:04.6 | The big issue in this campaign has been U.S.-Canadian relations, especially President Trump's tariffs. |
| 0:10.9 | The two frontrunners are a liberal party leader and current prime minister Mark Carney |
| 0:15.3 | and conservative party leader Pierre Polivere. |
| 0:18.7 | Since the beginning of the year, opinion polls have gone from showing a commanding |
| 0:22.4 | Conservative Party lead to a narrower but consistent Liberal Party lead. David Frum is a writer for the Atlantic and host of the podcast, The David Frum Show. He's a native and part-time resident of Canada. |
| 0:35.0 | David, a 20, more than 20 percentage point swing from the beginning of the |
| 0:39.3 | year to now. What happened? Let's talk about first why the conservatives were so far ahead. Under |
| 0:45.2 | Prime Minister Justin Doudou, the liberals have governed Canada for a decade since 2015. Economic |
| 0:50.6 | progress has been disappointing over those 10 years. Productivity growth was slow. |
| 0:55.7 | Incomes did not rise. The Trudeau's strategy for overcoming this poor performance of the economy |
| 1:01.3 | productively was to invite many more immigrants to come, to make at least the economy bigger. |
| 1:06.5 | Canada's immigration rates were already high. He effectively doubled it. So Canadians find themselves |
| 1:11.4 | poor economic performance, huge inflow of immigrants, rising housing prices, much disappointment. |
| 1:18.7 | That put the conservatives ahead until Trump began to open his mouth. And talk about that. |
| 1:23.4 | What happened after Trump, as you put it, Trump opened his mouth? Well, Canada and the United States have a trillion-dollar trading relationship. |
| 1:30.4 | Obviously, there are always frictions, and they always have to be resolved. |
| 1:33.9 | And traditionally, they've been resolved through negotiation amicably. |
| 1:37.1 | And in the context of a relationship that's also about security, policing, environmental, |
| 1:42.2 | is an excellent relationship almost all the time. |
| 1:44.6 | Trump began to put demands on Canada, and they weren't rational demands. |
| 1:48.3 | And that has, of course, rallied Canadian opinion to the flag and made Canadians look around to say, |
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