A new poll suggests that if Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race, he would erase the massive lead the Conservatives have enjoyed for the past year and a half.
A Leger survey suggests a Carney-led party would boost Liberal support by six points to 37 per cent, putting them in a dead heat with the Tories.
91裸聊视频淗e91裸聊视频檚 the new flavour on the menu and he definitely seems to be capturing not just Canadians91裸聊视频 attentions but also Liberal attention,91裸聊视频 said Leger pollster Andrew Enns.
The poll says the Liberals are currently at 31 per cent support, Pierre Poilievre91裸聊视频檚 Conservatives are still riding high in majority territory at 40 per cent and Jagmeet Singh91裸聊视频檚 New Democrats are trailing far behind at 14 per cent.
Leger recorded a six-point bump in Liberal support since Jan. 26, after weeks of headlines about U.S. President Donald Trump91裸聊视频檚 tariff threats and calls for Canada to become a U.S. state.
The pollster suggests support for a Liberal party led by Chrystia Freeland would slide three points to 28 per cent, with Conservatives at 39 per cent.
91裸聊视频淐hrystia Freeland doesn91裸聊视频檛 have the same impact on the ballot as Mark Carney would in a head-to-head race with Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh,91裸聊视频 Enns said.
The poll suggests Freeland faces another big problem.
When asked who they trust most to defend Canada91裸聊视频檚 interests from Trump, about 20 per cent of Canadians polled by Leger picked Carney and 20 per cent chose Poilievre. Freeland was the choice of just six per cent of those polled.
91裸聊视频淔reeland predicated her leadership campaign on being the Trump fighter in hopes that it would push down and push out voter thinking that she was Trudeau91裸聊视频檚 right-hand person for the last nine years in office,91裸聊视频 Enns said.
91裸聊视频淪he hasn91裸聊视频檛 been successful in that and you can see where Carney, on the other hand, is sucking the oxygen out of the room for all the other Liberal leadership candidates.91裸聊视频
Leger says Carney registered 68 per cent support among Liberal voters, followed by Freeland91裸聊视频檚 14 per cent. Former Liberal House leader Karina Gould polled at three per cent, just behind 91裸聊视频渟omeone else,91裸聊视频 which registered four per cent.
Former Liberal MPs Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla are also running in the race to replace Trudeau on March 9.
The online poll reached 1,590 adults between Feb. 7 and Feb. 10. The polling industry91裸聊视频檚 professional body, the Canadian Research Insights Council, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.