It sounds like you're describing a scenario where Donald Trump’s influence is impacting voter sentiments beyond the United States, particularly in Canada. While this is an interesting perspective, it’s important to note that as of my knowledge cutoff in October 2023, there’s no verified information indicating that Canadian voters are viewing their upcoming elections as a direct response to Trump’s actions or policies.
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00:00We're going to now talk about what's happening in the north, which is voters are headed to the polls in Canada.
00:06Canada is preparing to select its next prime minister, and the president of the United States is taunting them.
00:13Quote, good luck to the great people of Canada.
00:15President Trump wrote in a Truth Social post this morning, adding, quote,
00:20elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half,
00:24increase your military power for free to the highest level in the world.
00:29Have your car, steel, aluminum, lumber, energy, and all other businesses quadruple in size with zero tariffs or taxes
00:37if Canada becomes the cherished 51st state of the United States of America.
00:43John King spent time in Ontario and British Columbia ahead of Canada's national election today,
00:48and of course is still here.
00:50What did you hear from Canadian voters?
00:52I'm going to speak a sentence you will never hear in the United States.
00:54There's a big national election, and Donald Trump is by far the most unifying force.
01:00You speak to voters in Canada, and they can be conservative, they can be liberal,
01:03they can even be more to the left of the Liberal Party, support the New Democrats or support the Green Party.
01:08Listen here, three different voters, this is in Ontario, say, what's your number one issue in this election?
01:13Donald Trump.
01:16It's more Donald Trump. I feel like he's a bully in this situation.
01:20We're supposed to be allies. We thought we're on, like, a friendship level.
01:24We're just sick of them, you know, and it's only been three months into the term.
01:28I never thought I would put up a Canadian flag, but I think when it comes down to crunch time, Canadians really gather up.
01:33There is no friends somewhere.
01:35The biggest thing in Canada is we have friends all over the world.
01:39How many friends does Americans have right now?
01:43Trump's insults.
01:44Trump's insults about 51st state, about calling the prime minister governor,
01:48they have created this wave of nationalism in Canada.
01:51Three of the voters you saw there, the two women, sisters-in-law, and Toby Gorman at the hockey rink,
01:55they were going to be Green Party voters.
01:57They were going to be Green Party voters, but they want whoever wins,
01:59they know the Green Party can't win enough seats to elect a prime minister,
02:02they want that person to have a mandate to stand up to Trump.
02:04So they are going to vote liberal and give up who they would normally vote for because of this fight with Trump.
02:09At the end was Peter Hamilton, 75 years old, has a beautiful maple syrup farm.
02:13He's a conservative.
02:14His party was leading by 25 points at the beginning of the year.
02:17He's seen the historic swing in the polls.
02:19He knows the liberals are likely to win.
02:21We'll see when they count the votes.
02:22And what he is saying is the United States is not our friend anymore.
02:25Canada needs to rethink everything, defense spending, economic markets,
02:28and so we better work together.
02:30So Donald Trump has changed the way Canadians are thinking about their election
02:34because they think they've lost their friend and their neighbor,
02:37that Trump took this from neighborly to nasty, and they need to stand up.
02:40And people, of course, who watch Inside Politics may have a sense of what's going on there,
02:45but just to sort of underscore that Justin Trudeau is not going to run for prime minister again,
02:51but his party is the one that is benefiting from what Donald Trump is doing
02:56and continuing to taunt his fellow conservatives to the north.
03:00And that is why the conservative candidate, Pierre Polyev, said the following on social media on X this morning.
03:12President Trump, stay out of our election.
03:14The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.
03:20They were up 25 points at the beginning of the year.
03:22The problem for Polyev is that he is with Trump on some issues.
03:26He talks about the woke institutions and coming out with things like that.
03:30He's a younger, sort of a flipper politician.
03:32But, again, unifying factor that Trump has been, both Mark Carney,
03:35now the prime minister and the liberal leader who took over for Trudeau,
03:38and Polyev have proposed these big different details,
03:42but using government money to help Canadian industry that Trump is attacking with tariffs and everything like that.
03:46Trump has, their economies are actually quite similar because Trump has brought them together.
03:51This was an election about change at the beginning of the year.
03:53Now it's an election about Trump.
03:55And Carney is, he's viewed by Canadians, he's serious, he has central bank experience,
03:59he understands the economy because of his bank experience both here and in London.
04:03And so people have said, you know, oh, Donald Trump, you're trying to make us dump these guys?
04:07A, no.
04:08And number two, we need an adult to stand up to Donald Trump,
04:10and at least the late polls show they think it's more Carney and the liberals.
04:13I just, I don't think you can underscore enough how much has changed in such a small amount of time.
04:21Also, if you're Trudeau, do you wish that maybe you had been able to ride that wave a little bit longer?
04:27Because the race to replace him was basically to be prime minister for a few more weeks or so
04:33until this election happened because the liberals were in such a bad position.
04:38And President Trump has just changed that entirely.
04:40And he's not, he doesn't seem to regret it.
04:43I mean, he really enjoys sort of trolling the northern neighbor.
04:47And it's also, to see and hear those voters you talked to, John, in Canada, so angry.
04:55I mean, that tells you everything you need to know.
04:57And, I mean, there was one person at a hockey rink, so we've seen the Canadians angry or animated there.
05:03But generally speaking...
05:05They almost apologize for it.
05:06They say we're really nice people, but we're really bad.
05:08Did you say story?
05:09I've heard that, too.
05:10Yeah, our reporter, Jim Fusengaro, was in Ontario.
05:13He was in Windsor.
05:14And their sister city is Detroit.
05:16There used to be a bus between the two.
05:18And that bus was canceled by Windsor because of this.
05:23Oh, 10 seconds.
05:23Well, and then, of course, both candidates also agree that Trump is unreliable.
05:27That is the through line.
05:28And that is telling in all of what you've just said.
05:33All right.
05:33Well, we will be watching as the polls come in in Canada.
05:36Donald Trump's tariffs and his threats to annex Canada are top of mind for a lot of Canadian voters today.
05:44They are heading to the polls, of course, a federal election to decide who will lead the country through what are these uncertain times.
05:50An anti-Trump sentiment is very likely to play a big role, also overshadowing this election.
05:57Of course, Saturday's crowd ramming in Vancouver that left at least 11 people dead.
06:02A 30-year-old man is now facing murder charges for that attack.
06:07CNN's Paula Newton following the voting and weekend news for us from the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
06:15Let's start with these elections.
06:17They are crucial.
06:19This is a difficult time for Canada, especially within the context of Donald Trump's tariffs and his threats on Canada.
06:28How is that playing out?
06:33We've talked a lot about this over the past weeks.
06:36We are at that point now.
06:38Campaigning is over.
06:39How big a role did Donald Trump and the U.S. play in campaigning?
06:43And how likely is it that ultimately people will be voting on that as much as, if not more, than anything else?
06:53Thank you, Becky.
07:23But in terms of this, it is likely another troll against Canada, saying that it would be much better off as the 51st state.
07:30And I note the language here, that he is saying, look how beautiful this land mass would be, as if Canada is some kind of commodity.
07:38And that is that very thing that Canadians in this election voted on, Becky, and continue to vote on.
07:44There was a record turnout for advance polls, a lot of people saying that there was a lot at stake, an existential threat from Donald Trump, not just because of tariffs, Becky, but because of this threat for Canada to be the 51st state.
07:56I will note, Mark Carney, the prime minister, did say a few days ago that he does not expect that the president would try and do that in a military sense, but certainly in an economic sense to try and cripple Canada.
08:08The Conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, shooting back at Donald Trump this morning, saying, stay out of our election.
08:16Becky, I think it's safe to say that the majority of Canadians would have liked to see him post that in all caps.
08:24They are emphatic here that they will decide the future.
08:27And while they may see the United States as continuing to be a close ally, they do not see Donald Trump advances as funny in any way, shape or form.
08:36And this election is about that threat from the president. Becky?
08:43Hmm. Which is probably why he was better off not posting that in all caps, because that's very Donald Trump-like, isn't it?