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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Sunday that a national election would be held on April 28 while Canada faced the “most important crisis of our lives” caused by US President Donald Trump.
Carney called the survey two weeks after replacing Justin Trudeau as Chief of the Canada Liberal Party and two months since the leadership race.
Carney, a former Canada Bank and Governor of the Central Bank of England, pledged a “middle -class tax cut”, a national dental plan and called for unity in a time of crisis.
“I’m looking for your vote, so we can be strong in Canada,” he said.
The election campaign will be Pit Carney, an unseen 60-year-old leading leader in Wall Street, against the leader of the Conservative Pierre Poilievre party, a 45-year-old career politician.
“He (Trump) wants to break us so America can own us. We will not allow this to happen,” Carney said.
The popularity of the Liberal Party has grown in response to Trump’s threats to annexation and punitive fees.
Pailievre launched his campaign in Ottawa on Sunday and said Canada could not afford another four years with the Liberal Party.
“Time to set Canada first for a change,” he said.
“A new conservative government that will receive taxes, build houses, cut waste, close criminals, secure our borders, and let our resources bring our jobs home, and stay in front of Trump from a position of force.”
The conservatives had been on the right track to easily win the next general elections as widespread dissatisfaction with the cost of living, and the affordability of shelter has undermined support for the Liberals after the near decade of Trudeau.
Pailievre had enjoyed a comfortable 20 -point superiority in the polls while Trudeau resigned in early January and Trump’s inauguration that month.
Trump’s fees and threats have united the Canadians against a new common enemy, the US, leading to a tremendous turn of support for the Liberals.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Alberta Danielle Smith told Breitbart News that she asked the White House of “pause” the fees that are expected to hit Canada on April 2 to help Pailievre and the Conservative Party’s electoral chances.
Pailievre has tried to distance himself from Trump and Maga supporters who have supported the Canadian conservative.
“First of all I said I want Donald Trump’s opposite,” Pailievre Sunday.
Andrew Enns from the Leger Market Research firm said elections would come down to those who voters think they can manage the economy best and who could deal with Trump.
“Carney probably had the initial upper hand, with the government leading the reaction to Trump’s challenges,” he said.
“But the elections are an opportunity for poilievre to make his issue for building a stronger Canadian economy, stronger than those that liberals have been able in their nine years,” Enns said.
A legendary survey last week reported that 42 percent of Canadians would vote for the Liberal Party led by Mark Carney, while 39 percent would vote for the Conservative Party. It was the first time the liberals had received the lead and an increase of 5 points a week.
However, on Sunday, the data surveys showed that the conservatives held a narrow nationwide lead at 39 percent with liberals close to 36 percent. The New Democratic Party – a major ally for the government of Trudeau – went through 12 percent.
On Saturday, the Liberal Party announced that Carney, who is not elected as a member of Parliament, will run for the Nepean electorate, south -west of Ottawa.
“This may be the first choice in which the opposition leader is better known than the prime minister,” said David Coletto, the Director General of Abacus’s data, regarding Carney’s latest entry into the political arena.
