The CEO of Desjardins, Guy Cormier, is not reassuring regarding the US presidential election on November 5: “According to Desjardins economists, a return of the Republican candidate to the White House would increase global economic and geopolitical instability. »
Will this election have an impact in the House of Commons? If Donald Trump is elected, it could well be that Justin Trudeau decides to go to an election before the holidays in order to take advantage of the fear he would arouse among a majority of Canadians.
Trudeau could play the card of ideological affinities between Trump and Pierre Poilievre on various issues (their common interest in cryptocurrency, for example). If the ill-bred Trump is a “weird”, the conservative leader is not far from being one too with his outrageous words and his preposterous ideas, the liberal campaign team will suggest.
Trudeau will submit that he knows Trump (the worst president of the United States) well, having had to confront him during the four years he was in power, and that he stood up to him during the negotiations leading to the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). He ultimately submitted that the instability caused by his election and his seizure of power in January made a government of continuity in Ottawa necessary.
If Justin Trudeau does not benefit from the possible return of the bogeyman Trump to the White House, it’s the end of the beans for him and his party.
Sylvio Le Blanc
Montréal
