Canada's border problem: How will the next prime minister deal with Trump?

Tariffs and talk of making the world’s second largest nation by size the 51st state flipping the momentum from the opposition conservatives to Liberals that suffered from incumbent fatigue after a decade in power - that is until 99 days ago.

Starting on Inauguration Day, Trump’s belligerent tone stunned his neighbors to the north. We asked about former central banker Mark Carney who stepped in and called the snap vote after unpopular predecessor Justin Trudeau bowed out. What’s the plan for a nation unsure about the lasting damage across the world’s longest unprotected border?

And what to make of rival Pierre Poilievre, who hails from the right wing of the Conservative Party?The MP from Ontario was actually born in Alberta, the oil-rich western province often depicted as Canada’s answer to Texas and the most sympathetic to Trump. Is Canada polarizing the way the U.S. has?

In this Commonwealth member whose head of state remains Britain’s monarch, the fault line has long been with the sovereignists of French-speaking Québec. What’s changed?

Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Ilayda Habib and Aurore Laborie. 

• Guillaume LAVOIE Associate Fellow, Raoul-Dandurand Chair, Quebec University in Montreal

• Moshe Lander Senior Lecturer of Economics, Concordia University

• Tanya Health Entrepreneur and Consultant

• Allan WOODS Journalist at the Toronto Star newspaper