MONTREAL—Candidates seeking to lead the Liberal Party and the country met in Montreal for the French debate, where they expressed little disagreement over each other’s policy proposals and instead criticized U.S. President Donald Trump and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre.
“We agree on a lot and it’s a really good thing,” Liberal MP and former cabinet member Chrystia Freeland said in her closing remarks.
Freeland tried to position herself as the best candidate to deal with Trump, given her past experience in negotiating the CUSMA free trade deal during the president’s first term.
Freeland said Trump poses the greatest threat to Canada since World War II. “He wants to make Canada the 51st [U.S.] state. It’s not a joke,” Freeland said. “This is why he supports the criminal efforts of Vladimir Putin to redraw Ukraine’s borders, because Trump also wants to redraw our borders.”…