It's Election Day in Canada, which is nothing new for reporter Stephanie Levitz.
I have covered, I believe this is my ninth federal election.
But Stephanie says this one is without precedent.
How it looked like the next campaign in this country was going to go,
and it feels like that's all been flipped on its head.
So you have the Liberal campaign, which is led by Mark Carney,
which is driving a narrative that says he's the guy to take on U.S.
President Donald Trump.
We can't change President Trump.
So we need a leader that can stand up to him.
His chief opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev, running more on a cost-of-living narrative.
We cannot afford a fourth Liberal term.
It's as
though they're kind of evaluating them and imagining a boardroom and imagining the U.S. president at one end of the table and this leader at the other end of the table.
And which one do I want to see in that seat?
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And so it's not surprising in retrospect that the debate was truncated.
But it is surprising the extent to which the decisions that were made in the early going of the pandemic departed from conventional wisdom about how to handle a pandemic.