‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’: Canada leaders’ debate dominated by US crisis

Mark Carney's Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump's attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the key question in Canada's upcoming election is who is best to deal with Donald Trump as he faced his Conservative rival in a French-language leaders' debate on Wednesday.

Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said during the debate Canada needs change after a decade of Liberal party rule and Carney is just like his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Carney responded: Mr Poilievre is not Justin Trudeau. I'm not Justin Trudeau either. In this election the question is who is going to face Mr Trump."