continues to lose MPs and drop in the polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2ae6b77db4b00ec88a4b8edb730abd43.jpeg\"\/)
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Current seat totals in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n
Poilievre making himself available to media<\/p>\n
Over the past several months, Poilievre has been willing to engage with Canada\u2019s mainstream media in ways that he wasn\u2019t will to do during the last election. He\u2019s granted several interviews, appeared on CBC with Rosemary Barton, went on CTV with Vassy Kapelos and granted a year-end interview to Dawna Friesen at Global.<\/p>\n
His recent appearance on Peter Mansbridge\u2019s\u00a0podcast\u00a0was self-deprecating.<\/p>\n
In March, he conducted tours of both Europe and the United States that were well received. He was given accolades for saying on both The Joe Rogan Experience and The Diary of a CEO podcasts that he wouldn\u2019t criticize Carney on foreign soil.<\/p>\n
Here at home, Poilievre continues to hammer away at Carney on issues such as affordability, the housing crisis,\u00a0crime\u00a0and immigration \u2013 these are some of the biggest issues voters keep telling pollsters.<\/p>\n
Yet those same polling firms show Poilievre\u2019s numbers dropping.<\/p>\n
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It is frustrating for the Conservatives and for their leader. They must be wondering what they can do next to turn things around.<\/p>\n
The simple answer is there is nothing they can do at the moment because voters aren\u2019t fleeing Poilievre or flocking to Carney so much as they are reacting to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
In the last election, the Liberals took 43% of the popular vote, the Conservatives 41% and for a long time after the election polling continued to show the two parties as close. That started to change at the end of January as the Liberals opened a wider lead.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t due to popular new policies from Carney, it wasn\u2019t due to stumbles by Poilievre; it was all about Trump.<\/p>\n
As long as\u00a0Trump dominates in the headlines, Carney will benefit in the polls.<\/p>\n
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A history of recent floor-crossings by Conservative MPs.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s economy continues to struggle under Carney<\/p>\n
With factors like this at play, there is little that Poilievre can do to break through in the meantime. He\u2019s going to have to wait until Canadians wake up and see that despite Carney\u2019s resume, his promise to expand Canada\u2019s economy and his promise to secure a better trade deal with Trump, things are not going well for Canada\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
Our unemployment rate is still up, food inflation in Canada is the highest in the G7, our economy is the weakest in the G7 and we still don\u2019t have a trade deal with the Americans.<\/p>\n
As Canadians increasingly believe we need to get closer to Europe, 10 EU nations have still not fully ratified our free-trade deal with them. Meanwhile, despite his closeness with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Carney hasn\u2019t been able to rekindle the trade talks with the U.K. that were called off two years ago.<\/p>\n
The perception, though, is that Carney is standing up to or somehow dealing with Trump. That\u2019s more of a vibe, a feeling than anything based on reality, but it is enough for voters at the moment and that is enough to give Carney his majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time Mark Carney turns off the light and heads to bed Monday night, he will know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[307,162,122,111,1214],"class_list":{"0":"post-1758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-conservative-mps","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-liberals","11":"tag-mark-carney","12":"tag-pierre-poilievre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}