Conservatives unveil anti-Carney ad with ‘Canada First’ rally planned

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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is trying to rise to a new moment in Canadian politics with an advertising blitz and a major rally in the nation’s capital on Saturday.

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The rally will take place on Saturday afternoon, to coincide with Flag Day, and will take place in the same downtown Ottawa convention centre where Poilievre’s leadership of the party began more than two years ago.

It’s an exclamation mark on a broader message change by the Conservatives, which sees them move away from earlier calls for a “carbon tax election,” to a campaign theme more in tune with the current moment, in which Canada finds itself battling multiples threats of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.

On Friday, the Conservatives unleashed the new ads depicting Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney as a threat to Canada’s economic wellbeing.

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The ad paints Carney and Trump in sinister dark red tones, with both accused of being the villains of a tense moment in Canada-U.S. relations.

“Trump wants our jobs. And Mark Carney is just the man to help him,” the narrator says, over ominous music.

The ads are playing across multiple social media platforms, including X, Facebook and Youtube, and present a stark contrast to a more positive ad launched this week featuring Poilievre’s wife, Anaida Poilievre.

Poilievre will deliver a speech Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at a downtown Ottawa convention centre.

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