Mark Carney’s Liberals ‘clearly in the lead’ ahead of debates this week

‘Sometimes the truth hurts’: Doug Ford weighs in as polls suggest Carney’s Liberals remain ahead of Poilievre’s Conservatives

Bolstered by support in Ontario, Mark Carney's Liberals are solidifying their poll lead over Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives, according to Star's election predictor, the Signal.

The polls are favourable to him, but not all of them, and the voters have not yet, for almost all of them, started voting. At the beginning of the week, this is the stage of the race.

Canada, between cozy comfort and discreet decline, is gradually slipping out of history. Mark Carney's very probable succession to the head of the country at the end of the month is not likely to reassure a population that is too naive and continually slippery. The observation is unappealable: Canada is now showing one of the lowest per capita economic growths in the West. Despite the beautiful discourses about the virtues of openness and inclus…

Liberals' lead could change if domestic concerns surpass U.S. tensions, says pundits, pollster

Prime Minister Mark Carney 'is still largely untested' in the political arena, and Jamie Carroll said 'Liberals should take almost no comfort from sitting on top of the biggest, fastest polling swing in modern Canadian history. It's a helluva lot better than being on the other side of it, but the folks I speak to on the campaign appreciate the precariousness of the moment.'

The generational fault line that could shake up the federal election

Pollsters and political campaigners don’t deny it; there’s a generational fault line in the federal election. Boomers are leaning toward the Liberals, since Mark Carney won the LPC leadership. And younger generations (Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z), angry about the cost of living, endorse the platform of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

ANALYSIS | After wrapping himself in the maple leaf, Carney needs Liberal support to stick like syrup

Mark Carney and his Liberals have defied expectations by continuing to lead popular opinion polls and even growing their support during this election campaign. The big question is whether this phenomenon will persist all the way to Election Day.