Lame Duck Trudeau Leaves Power Vacuum in Canada, Forcing Liberals to Talk Tough to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : As of last week, Ford was talking about increasing electricity exports to America, in the hopes that Trump might see the value of a "renewed strategic alliance" that could help Trump meet his economic and security policy goal of "decoupling" from China.
47% : The premiers hope in return that Trump might grant them exemptions from whatever tariffs he chooses to impose.
46% : Smith said she held a "constructive dialogue" with the returning American president and seemed convinced that "diplomacy" would be more effective with Trump than confrontation.
45% : Other premiers have been more inclined toward confrontation, perhaps playing more to an audience of Canadian voters than Trump.
43% : Ford has yet to secure a meeting with Trump, while Smith has been invited to his second inauguration, sending a rather clear signal about the president-elect's preference for diplomacy over confrontation.
36% : Trudeau was already unpopular with the public for a host of reasons, and his unpopularity dragged his party down in some painful special election losses, but the last straw for many of his Liberal colleagues was the election of Trump.
24% : Trudeau did his best to talk tough in an interview with MSNBC on Sunday, assuring viewers that Canada does not want a trade fight with the Trump administration but is ready to rumble if Trump makes good on his tariff threats.
18% : Trudeau's foreign minister, Melanie Joly, chimed in with a threat to restrict Canadian energy imports to the United States if Trump imposes tariffs.

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