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Canada goes to the polls on April 28, and when its TV production community hits the voting booths, they’ll be doing so with a sense of renewed optimism. That’s all down to an unexpected source: Donald Trump.
A few months ago, Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre was expecting a big majority win, maybe even a landslide, as favor turned against Justin Trudeau and his left-leaning Liberals. Poilievre had made clear he would enact wide-scale change at the CBC and target other cultural institutions that didn’t fit with his Trump-lite version of right-wing politics. Voters broadly seemed to like it.
Now, with less than two weeks until voting, it is the Liberals that appear set for a majority, thanks to a surge of patriotism born out of President Trump’s goading of the U.S.’ northern neighbor and his plans to turn it into the “51st state.” The Conservative lead has crumbled and even Trump himself seems to have accepted Mark Carney as his Canadian counterpart, recently saying a Liberal leader would be “easier to deal with.”
Usually, culture and media play a very small part in deciding how elections are won. However, sources across the Canadian production sector tell Deadline that Conservative threats to tear up cultural institutions just as Trump aggressively seeks to recalibrate America’s relationship with Canada (whether through tariffs or other actions) led to culture becoming a real battleground. >>>CBC/Radio-Canada Debate |
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