OTTAWA, Aug 28 — Less than a week after Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the likely end of his marriage, his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre...
OTTAWA, Aug 28 — Less than a week after Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the likely end of his marriage, his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre launched an ad narrated by his wife touting him as the leader the country needs.
“This was not a fluke that the Conservatives rolled this out basically a week after Justin Trudeau announced the separation from his wife,” said Nik Nanos, founder of polling company Nanos Research.Sarah Fischer, a spokeswoman for the Conservative Party, said the ad was arranged weeks before its release and has “no connection to the separation announcement” on Aug. 2.
“We really haven’t seen Trudeau the loving-husband family-man narrative since election 2015,” said Shachi Kurl, president of Angus Reid Institute polling company.Trudeau, 51, is suffering from voter fatigue, which “is probably more pronounced than it has ever been,” and from the success of Poilievre’s campaign to blame the Liberal government for a chronic housing crunch and high inflation, Kurl said.
Conservatives are spending well over C$3 million to run an ad campaign over the next several months that includes the “Meet Pierre Poilievre” video.