Inviting foreigners to interfere in national politics is wrong.

That said, the point for Canadian voters to notice is that the Trump Administration didn't listen to any advice that they should pause the tariffs in order to help the Poilievre campaign. Pres. Trump doesn't want to help the #CPC, and may indeed (as he has said) prefer the Liberals.

@mpjgregoire Well, that’s because Trump isn’t a long term strategic thinker and only thinks about what will play nice to the people that support him.

Poilievre is at a fork in the road. He can go the Doug Ford route and be a hero, or go the Danielle Smith route and be the villain.

The only way he wins is to massively distance himself from the Maple MAGA crowd. But that might turn him into the next Erin O’Toole.

We'll see what happens over the course of the campaign. Mr. Poilievre will continue rejecting annexation, defending Canadian sovereignty, and criticising the policies over the last ten years that have weakened Canada economically.

Will that be enough to win? Maybe people won't listen, maybe they'll hear what they want to hear. Maybe they'll think Mr. Carney offers similar policies with a better CV. But it seems clear that Mr. Poilievre wants to follow the Doug Ford path to victory.

@mpjgregoire No disagreement with me that Trudeau failed on the economic front. Again, I was never a Trudeau fan. And many of the things Poilievre was saying were, in fact, true.

But now that Trudeau is gone and Carney is getting rid of Trudeau’s worst policies?

What I’d like to hear is how Poilievre plans to diversify Canada’s economy, defend our sovereignty,and build foreign alliances.

The other thing is too—maybe this can be a learning experience—Canada used to have its own brand of Conservatism. But over time, folks like Kevin O’Leary and Jordan Peterson have pushed the party closer to Republican alignment. So maybe it’s time for Diefenbaker-style Conservatives to make a comeback.

Diefenbaker, eh?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqyqq9-M…

(It's only 1 minute.)

The core of the Conservative Party of Canada is people who cheer whenever Diefenbaker is invoked. Most of the voters may have forgotten the Chief, but not the people who knock on doors, put up signs and go to conventions.