Canada election is Carney’s to lose in contest turned on its head by Trump

The Conservative Pierre Poilievre was poised to be the next PM until a lurch in US relations tilted polls to the Liberals

Every election, the message from exasperated pundits and pedants is the same: Canadians don’t actually vote directly for their prime minister.

But on a rural intersection south of Ottawa, residents could be mistaken for thinking otherwise.

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