A deeply flawed argument has slipped into the national election conversation.
It goes like this: there isn’t much policy difference between front-runners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, so it really comes down to who can best handle Donald Trump.
True, handling the U.S. president is job one and polls show Carney more trusted on this file. But the first part of the argument — that the two men have similar policies — is fundamentally wrong and dangerously misleading.
It’s true what they say about progressives every accusation is a confession.
It all sprung from Monday’s Conservative press conference in Saint John, N.B., where leader Pierre Poilievre was asked about his plan to “turn things around,” and whether a change in campaign leadership was on the table. It was a valid question — it’s no secret that the polls, at this point, favour the Liberals, and that some provincial Conservatives have been backseat campaigning to 
