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It's Election Day in Canada, which is nothing new for reporter Stephanie Levitz.
I have covered, I believe this is my ninth federal election. But Stephanie says this one is without precedent. how it looked like the next campaign in this country was going to go. And it feels like that's all been flipped on its head. So you have the liberal campaign, which is led by Mark Carney, which is driving a narrative that says he's the guy to take on U.S. President Donald Trump.
We can't change President Trump. So we need a leader that can stand up to him.
His chief opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Palliev, running more on a cost of living narrative. We cannot afford a fourth liberal term. It's as though they're kind of evaluating them and imagining a boardroom and imagining the U.S. president at one end of the table and this leader at the other end of the table. And which one do I want to see in that seat?
How Trump's 51st state talk may have saved Canada's libs. Coming up on Today Explained.
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When we sat down with Stephanie Levitz from The Globe and Mail, we started talking about how it was just about a year ago that we sat down with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was eager to talk about his ambitious plans to invest in housing construction, affordable health care and child care, raising capital gains taxes.
These are things that actually meet people where they are in their cost of living and provide solutions for a better life. Those choices are going to be on the table in the next election. And I'm confident the Canadians are going to remain responsible, ambitious and optimistic about their future.
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