As Canada braces for damaging U.S. tariffs, Canadians are split on who they think would be the best leader to take on President Donald Trump, new polling shows.
More than quarter of Canadians (28 per cent) say Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a tough negotiator who would get the best deal for Canada from Trump, according to an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and published Thursday.
Almost a quarter (23 per cent) said the same for Liberal leadership hopeful and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, followed by 11 per cent for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Fewer Canadians had the same opinion for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who both polled at seven per cent.
At the same time, despite Poilievre being ranked the best in terms of negotiating with Trump, 31 per cent of Canadians also said the Tory leader would “roll over and accept whatever President Trump demands.”
Canadians were less skeptical of Trudeau on that front, with 22 per cent saying the prime minister would yield to Trump’s demands.
Freeland fared best in that regard at four per cent, followed by Carney at six per cent and Singh at nine per cent, polling showed.
“Canadians are a bit broken up,” said Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, commenting on the results of the poll, which asked 1,000 Canadian adults their opinions about different leaders dealing with Trump and the U.S.
“I think these circumstances that we find ourselves in, and with the direct threat that we’re facing from the United States, a lot of things that were tried and true rules in Canadian politics aren’t necessarily going to play out the way that they used to play out.
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“One question that Pierre Poilievre is going to have to answer in order to get Tory support headed in the right direction is whether or not he would be prepared to roll over for President Trump.”
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