Poilievre faces ‘balancing act’ between Conservative MAGA support and anti-Trump Canadian sentiment: ‘they’re definitely not going to do interviews talking about why they like Donald Trump’

A Conservative source told The Hill Times that 'at least 75 per cent' of Conservative MPs, most from Western Canada, 'support the Republicans in the U.S.' and have been 'favourable' to Donald Trump. But the source also noted that almost all Conservatives do not support Trump’s idea of annexing Canada as the 51st state.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, pictured holding a presser on the Hill on March 4, 2025. If the American vote was held between March 7 and 10, when the Leger survey was conducted, 33 per cent of Conservative supporters still chose the Republican president, despite his constant attacks against Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 24, 2025

Over the past three months, a federal election that was shaping up to be focused on change and brought the Conservatives a double-digit lead in the polls has now shifted to protecting Canadian sovereignty against the threat to it posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s fixa...

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