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Latika Takes interviews Canadian pollster David Coletto
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Latika Takes interviews Canadian pollster David Coletto

How Donald Trump upended Canadian politics

Mark Carney has called a snap election for April 28 in a poll the Liberals were set to suffer a devastating wipeout under former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Carney, a former central and investment banker, replaced Trudeau as leader and prime minister despite not holding a seat in the House of Commons and has narrowed the Conservatives’ 20-point lead in the polls to just four.

, Canada’s top pollster of research firm Abacus Data joins Latika Takes to discuss how Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada and impose tariffs on Canadian goods have upended Canadian politics in just a matter of weeks.

He discusses whether Trump is revitalising incumbency and elitism and why the Canadian mindset has changed from scarcity to precarity.

You can follow David Coletto on Substack.

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