The Trump Campaign in Canada

 

The Canadian Conservative party, while still leading handily, has fallen by ten points in recent polls. Why?

So far as I can figure, only one thing has changed: Donald Trump is up in the US polls. Justn Trudeau has started campaigning against Trump instead of Poilievre. His message now, incongruously enough, is that a vote for him is a way to protest Trump.

So why do Canadians react so viscerally, indeed irrationally, to Trump? Why is Trump such a bogeyman in Canada?

 Because Trump is boastful and rude. This is just not the way a Canadian ever behaves. It is not “nice.” 

Small-minded, I know. But that’s Canada.