Federal vote intention tightens to near-tie as Liberals and New Democrats rally around Mark Carney, who holds significant favourability advantage over Chrystia Freeland among 2021 Liberal and NDP voters. Carney is still on the leadership campaign trail and already he’s turning the party’s fortunes around by sticking it to one-issue Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who’s seeing his rightwing shtick hit a brick wall after building up more than 20 percent lead. Poilievre can also thank his American rightwing nut President Donald Trump for his misfortunes as Trump has single-handedly revived Canadian pride and now see Carney as the saviour of Canada and it’s sovereignty as well as the only choice in steering Canada during a tumultuous economic time especially when our closest ally US has turned frenemy. 

By R. Paul Dhillon – Editor DESIBUZZCanada

OTTAWA  – Yet to be crowned Liberal leader Mark Carney is still on the leadership campaign trail and already he’s turning the party’s fortunes around by sticking it to one-issue Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who’s seeing his rightwing shtick hit a brick wall after building up more than 20 percent lead. 

Poilievre can also thank his American rightwing nut President Donald Trump for his misfortunes as Trump has single-handedly revived Canadian pride and now see Carney as the saviour of Canada and it’s sovereignty as well as the only choice in steering Canada during a tumultuous economic time especially when our closest ally US has turned frenemy. 

The current Liberal leadership race is set, with five individuals vying to be the next prime minister, before likely heading into a close-to-immediate federal election campaign. While two key debates loom for the contenders next week, many centre-left voters are already keen to back one candidate in particular and that is ex-Bank of Canada and UK Governor Carney.

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds former Bank of Canada Governor Carney surging as the hypothetical leader of the Liberals. With Carney at the head of the party, vote intention has tightened to a three-point gap between the Liberals and Conservatives, with 40 per cent supporting the latter and 37 per cent the former. 

This is seemingly at the cost of the New Democrats, who have lost half of their vote intention (21% to 10%) since late December. Under Carney, 42 per cent of 2021 NDP voters say they would support the Liberals, while 44 per cent would vote for the party again.

With Carney’s biggest rival in the race, former Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland as hypothetical leader, the NDP garners 16 per cent of vote intention instead of 10, and the Liberals drop from 37 per cent to 29 per cent.Read the rest of this article here: www.angusreid.org/7