Carney and Freeland have ties to the Canadian government sure, but Carney has better credence to say he is less politically minded and has a resumé filled with global experience, especially in contrast with Poilievre
Ok, true, but I believe Poilievre has a lot more of experience being a minister than Carney.
With respect to the response to tarriffs, when you say fix the border, I have only one question for you: How many illegal immigrants and how much in illegal drugs does the CBSA, border czar and whatnot need to catch in order to satisfy Trump enough to call off tariffs?
Too little and Trump will say Canada is not doing enough and letting crime slip through. Too much and Trump will insist Canada is still full of crime. And the trade war itself was started over one suitcase worth of fentanyl. Hopefully you can see that accepting the bully’s premise on the border is unwinnable for Canada.
Good question. Suppose that Poilievre wins the next election and actually manages to stop most of the crime in Canada and greatly secure our borders to intercept most of the drugs going from Canada to the US and catch most of the illegal immigrants (however I believe bringing crime to 0% and making it completely impossible for illegal immigrants and drugs to get through is literally impossible), and yet Donald Trump still says that Canada is full of crime and goes on with the tariffs. In that case, we'd still have less crime and more secure borders. Plus, maybe it could be possible to negotiate with Trump like how Danielle Smith has done?
Plus, it is quite risky to have most of your trade being done with only 1 single country. I believe that Canada should stop relying on the US so much for trade anyways and trade more with other countries.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that there are a lot of criminals who get into Canada legally as refugees because of our bad border policies and that during the previous Conservative government, nobody was complaining about our borders or the immigration. So, maybe we can just revert to what we previously had before Trudeau?
Can you explain?