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Trump or Harris: Here's how Canada would be affected by either a Republican or Democrat presidential win

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : much like it did last time Trump introduced tariffs.
36% : "What happens if we're not a liberal democracy anymore and we become autocratic, and what role does Canada then play in the world stage?"ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Border chaos and securityCanadians may recall when in 2017, shortly after Trump was sworn in as president, the number of asylum seekers attempting to enter Canada from the U.S. spiked.
34% : One former Trump administration official, Chris Liddell, said in June that Trump is "laser focused on trade imbalances," including with Canada and Mexico, though China is first on his list.
31% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump, on the other hand, pulled out of the Paris agreement when he was president, has strictly opposed EV subsidies and green investments and has vowed to roll back environmental regulations.
31% : When it comes to supporting Ukraine against Russia's invasion, Trump is likely to refocus American efforts on reaching a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, Sands said, even though NATO's official stance is that no peace is possible until Russia leaves Ukrainian territory.
21% : In one instance, an influx of Haitian asylum seekers was behind the increase, triggered by Trump ending an Obama-era provision that had extended immunity from deportation to Haitians in the wake of the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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