The first meaningful and lasting test of political consequence will come when control of the House and Senate are at stake this fall along with thousands of legislative seats and the governor’s office in 36 states. “This is it.”īut the proof points, so far, are few and contradictory. “We’ve needed something affirmative to say and an issue where we can say affirmatively we’re going to protect your rights,” Yang said. Heading into November’s midterm elections, the party is battling the twin headwinds of high inflation and low confidence in the Biden administration.
“Democrats needed an energizing, organizing dynamic and this provides it,” said Fred Yang, a veteran Democratic pollster and strategist who is working in a number of competitive House and Senate races around the country. Only that life in America will grow edgier, angrier and even more contentious in a country already so deeply divided that it’s more like hostile entities, red and blue, living uneasily on the same landmass.ĭemocrats hope the shock of Friday’s ruling will galvanize the party’s base, stirring the otherwise apathetic to vote, and also coax support from independents and even some Republicans - especially women - aggrieved at seeing the legal right to abortion vanish into air.
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It’s impossible, therefore, to know the full effect of its seismic decision overturning Roe vs. “The United States used to be a beacon of democracy, and now it’s exporting right-wing sedition to other democratic countries,” said Roland Paris, Trudeau’s former foreign policy adviser and professor of international affairs at University of Ottawa.Never before has the Supreme Court so dramatically taken away a constitutional right. democracy cannot survive another Trump presidency, and 47% said the United States is on its way to becoming an authoritarian state. Trump last weekend spoke out in support of the truckers and called Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “far-left lunatic”.Īccording to Angus Reid poll, 68% of Canadians believe U.S. On Monday, Canada’s federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the government would be “very vigilant about external forces, about foreign interference”. Ottawa police said on Tuesday they had worked with Ohio police to track down and arrest a man there for calling in fake threats “designed to deceive and distract our emergency resources,” deputy police chief Steve Bell told reporters.
Some 37% of Canadians say there is no room for political compromise in their country, the poll shows. “We like to think of ourselves as… a country of circumspection and compromise and friendliness, yet two in five people don’t feel that way anymore,” she said. “Canadians have generally looked to the United States and felt like, ‘Whatever is going on there, it’s not as bad in Canada,'” said Shachi Kurl, Angus Reid president. However, last week’s ouster of Conservative opposition leader Erin O’Toole in part for failing to embrace the protest suggests the political landscape is shifting. One example is the adoption of vaccines with nearly 80% of Canadians having had two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine in contrast to 64% in the United States. Until recently, politics in Canada has been less polarized than in the United States.
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6 anniversary of the storming of Capitol Hill in Washington last year led to a series of articles in Canadian newspapers that sounded an alarm about the resiliency of American democracy in coming years, and in particular after the 2024 election. Half of Canada’s imports come from the United States, including 60% of all imported fresh vegetables. The trade relationship with the United States is of existential importance to Canada, with 75% of all exports going to the southern neighbor.
border, and the two countries are each other’s top trading partners. Two-thirds of Canada’s 38 million people live within 100 km (62 miles) of the U.S. 31, the days in which the Ottawa protest began. The survey of 1,620 Canadians was conducted between Jan. In the poll, 78% of Canadians said they were worried America’s democratic discord will affect their country’s economy and security.