Leaders Make Final Pitches for Votes in Canada Elections

PM Mark Carney says he is best placed to steer Canada through a crisis triggered by Trump's tariffs, while Conservatives' Pierre Poilievre emphasizes the need for change

- Agence France-Presse

OTTAWA: Canadian leaders made their final push for votes on Sunday, one day before an election dominated by President Donald Trump's policies, but rattled in the campaign's final hours by a deadly car-ramming attack in Vancouver.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, is favoured to beat Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in Monday's vote, but polls show the race has tightened in recent days. The prime minister briefly paused his campaign schedule on Sunday to address the nation after a driver plowed into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the west coast city, killing nine people.

US-Canada trade war Polling consistently shows that Canadians believe Carney—a former investment banker who also led the central banks of Canada and Britain—is the strongest candidate to take on Washington. "This is an existential issue that we're facing," retired Ottawa resident Brian Carr told AFP on Sunday, referring to US government hostility.