This was not one election but two. For the Liberals and their supporters, this was an election, first and foremost, about Donald Trump, and his designs on Canada.
And so far as it was about Mr. Trump, and since it was unclear what, if anything, there was to be done about him, then it was about leadership, on which the Liberals happened to enjoy a decided advantage. Polls showed the public clearly preferred the Liberal Leader, Mark Carney, to the Conservative Leader, Pierre Poilievre.
