OTTAWA — Canada's 45th general election got underway Sunday, with the leaders vying to become Canada's next prime minister each positioning themselves as best to strengthen Canada's economy and stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney triggered the campaign midday by visiting Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and asking her to dissolve Parliament. Speaking outside Rideau Hall following that meeting, he said he is offering solutions instead of anger and division.
"It's easy to be negative about everything when you've never built anything; when you've never had to make a payroll," he said. "Negativity won't win a trade war."
Right out of the gate Carney promised a one point cut to the middle class tax rate and said an election is necessary to have a strong response to American economic threats.
The Liberal leader has not yet served as an MP, and he will seek election in the Ottawa riding of Nepean.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign an hour before Carney addressed media, saying he plans to restore the promise of Canada and tackle affordability issues that he blames on elites.
"Our nation is more divided than ever before, because the Liberal, radical, post-national, borderless and globalist ideology has weakened our nation," Poilievre said in Gatineau, Que., overlooking Parliament Hill.
"Now, desperate for a fourth term, Liberals have replaced Justin Trudeau with his economic advisor and handpicked successor, Mark Carney."
Poilievre said he will bring down the cost of living and fix the immigration system while having a strong military.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh launched his campaign from a downtown Ottawa hotel, reiterating his party's success in convincing the Liberals to enact national dental care and pharmacare programs.
He said Canadians are losing their jobs and blamed what he described as "Donald Trump's illegal trade war."
Canadians are losing their jobs and deserve a government that "has their backs," he said.
Recent polls have suggested the Liberals and Conservatives are in a neck-and-neck race and the comfortable polling lead the Conservatives enjoyed for more than a year has all but evaporated. The NDP, which a few months ago was tied with the Liberals in many surveys, has watched its support plummet.
Trump has threated to economically coerce Canada into becoming a U.S. state, implementing some tariffs and promising others in response for a shifting set of policy changes ranging from fentanyl flows to dairy quotas.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 23, 2025.
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
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Well, according to Premier Smith (who also made a direct plea for Election interference from a country who is engaged in a Trade War against us), the most aligned with Trump is Poilievre ... not unlike what Trump stated back in a January interview.
Make of this what you will, but if you want somebody to actually stand UP to Trump, and if you ARE Canadian ...
St. Albert Gazette
Absolutely INCREDIBLE that Alberta's Premier openly bragged on one of her right wing rag interviews about telling the Trump Administration to "pause the tariffs until after the Canadian Federal election because it was hurting the Conservatives and helping the Liberals"
Open and blatant corruption and endorsing foreign interference in an election!
St. Albert Gazette
The same Trump whom some Conservatives admire, particularly here in Alberta, may be the very person who loses them the election. What superb irony.
St. Albert Gazette
Trudeau left us in a weak position. Line ups at food banks, homes out of reach. Drug addiction extraordinary bad, our economy weak. The Liberals are fighting against the mess they left the country in, and people want a 4th term. Unbelievable.
That IS unbelievable. How did he accomplish all this? Did he manage to cause businesses such as oil companies and food empires to make record profits amid skyrocketing prices?
Trudeau was key in attempting the old NWO Great Reset agenda on Canada, which fortunately failed. But when the average Canadian is plugged in to 24/7 Liberal paid Media, you get what the Elites want. Whats hilarious is that Carney knows what will happen as he as no personal or business investment left in Canada and moved it all to the US. 1 in 5 Canadian businesses doing business with the US have already declared they will have to move there if tariffs aren't ended.
From Wiktionary: "elite (comparative eliter or more elite, superlative elitest or most elite)
Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.” Yeah, the very definition of liberal. I’m being sarcastic here; sorry. It’s just that I’m tired of the machinations of democratically elected people and their supporters, especially the gaslighting. I don’t believe everything I’m told, but I recognize patterns. You’ll have to do better than that.
PP was happy to use Trump’s words from the Laura Ingram show on Fox Tuesday night about Carney during his speech this morning, where he said “he could work with him.” I notice he DIDN’T repeat Trump’s words about himself. He certainly said he didn’t like him; but, sadly for Pierre, Trump didn’t describe him as too tough or too scary, but rather referred to him as “stupid.” Not a great sound bite to run on repeat. I think someone got his marching orders wrong.
Not a single one of these guys is going to fix everything for us. If they could, it’d be done by now. Mistrust anyone who suggests they can, or makes you feel you’re a kid and Daddy’s got all the answers. We don’t have to be cynical, but we do have to keep a critical eye on all of them, and make an informed choice. This isn’t a blood sport or a reality show: it’s a process.
Western Wheel
Danielle Smith's "Breitbart Moment" when she says that she's spoken with the Trump administration about our election and that Poilievre's policies are most closely aligned with that of Trump may have just been the push that undecided voters in Alberta needed to back away from the federal CPC party even if to just make the decision about who they WOULDN'T vote for. Smith has publicly admitted to encouraging foreign interference in our federal election and certainly hasn't helped Poilievre at all.
Her denial and attempt to reframe what she said should really raise alarm bells.
The Albertan
By far, the worst leader in Alberta's history.
Airdrie City View
Right there with Allison Redford
St. Albert Gazette
In her Breitbart interview, Smith said of a PP lead government “I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring, would be very much in sync with the new direction in America,". PP and DS thought that would be a winning strategy until it blew up in their faces. The new direction of America is now very clear, it is ugly and the polls show that many Canadians no longer want a Trump lite PM.
Fortunately the voters for the closet communists (Liberal,NDP) in Alberta are few.
It is hard to tell how many Canadians are knowingly aware of Carneys 180 turn on election promises from his declared past agendas as a WEF founding board member, using CPC promises verbatim. He answers to Elites money & Klaus Schwab's WEF. What we have now is all about 2 dominating Global sides, the neo-socialist/communist old NWO against Trumps Maga NWO where the old NWO have already declared they failed and are in disarray. It will take wars when economies collapse and one digital system is brought in and the two sides merge as one. Without a CPC majority, there is high probability of an Alberta Independence referendum getting 50+ percent which would allow us to prosper better than an old NWO Canada.
The Albertan
Take some chemtrails with your convoy juice
Oh, let’s have that referendum!! Please!!
Okay, I just did a little background “research.” The theory of the New World Order is that there is "a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda ... conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian one-world government—which will replace sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda whose ideology hails the establishment of the New World Order as the culmination of history's progress.” -- Wikipedia (of course)
Seems to me that an essential element of this dread cabal is a disregard for democratic institutions. I don’t think the threat, if it exists, is coming from the Liberals or the NDP.
Lots of Albertans have values. But, if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
The Albertan
Yeah, I looked up some of his other posts and saw the common theme….Funny (not really) how they mostly seem to gravitate towards the “right perspective “.