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Politics Week: Divisiveness Sinks Popularity Of All Leaders

CANADA
  • Leaders of Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have never been so collectively unpopular across 50 years of data reviewed by pollster Angus Reid, citing divisive politics.
  • Polling aggregator 338Canada shows Conservatives likely to win majority government if an election were held now. Election is due in late 2025 under traditional four-year mandate.
  • Canada introduces law to resist foreign interference including a foreign influence registry, a week after a judicial inquiry called evidence that some local contests may have been corrupted a “stain” on the country’s democracy. Relations with India and China remain difficult.
  • Mark Carney at Senate hearing declines to directly answer yes-or-no question of whether he supports the current carbon tax, says markets like certainty and if someone wants to replace it it’s ideal to come up with something better in its place.
  • Sample headline: Carney keeps appearing like a ghost at PM's feast (National Post)
MNI Ottawa Bureau | +1 613-314-9647 | greg.quinn@marketnews.com
MNI Ottawa Bureau | +1 613-314-9647 | greg.quinn@marketnews.com

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