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  • How Canada’s Trump-Style Candidate Blew a 20-Point Polling Lead

    04/22/2025 8:17:20 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 69 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 22, 2025 | Vipal Monga and Paul Vieira
    Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, seemed set to become Canada’s next prime minister at the start of 2025. For more than a year, his party had a 20-point lead in opinion polls over then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and momentum toward a landslide victory. Then came President Trump. Trump’s trade war and threats to annex Canada have upended Canadian politics. In less than three months, the Conservatives have gone from heavy favorites to underdogs in an election set for April 28. Poilievre’s problem is bad timing. His preferred foil, the unpopular Trudeau, resigned in March, when Trump’s...
  • King Charles Is Rooting for Canada. You Just Didn’t Notice.

    03/22/2025 5:23:54 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 23 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2025 | Max Colchester and Paul Vieira
    The King of Canada wants President Trump to back off. Just don’t expect him to actually say that publicly. Britain’s King Charles III, who is also Canada’s head of state, is wrestling with an unprecedented diplomatic headache. The monarch wants to stand up for the largest country in his realm as Trump talks about turning it into the 51st U.S. state. At the same time he has to honor the British government’s desire that he keep Trump, who deeply admires the royal family, sweet. The result has been a master class in passive-aggressive pageantry from Buckingham Palace. Earlier this month,...