<p data-async="">Wednesday evening’s French-language leaders’ debate kicked off with a video montage that mentioned President Donald Trump roughly 175 times. (I exaggerate somewhat.) Thursday evening’s English-language leaders’ debate was much less focused specifically on Trump, to an almost bizarre extent. When moderator Steve Paikin offered each leader a chance to ask a question of an opponent, Liberal Leader Mark Carney chose to ask Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;the security-clearance drama&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-why-poilievre-is-refusing-to-read-the-traitors-report&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-why-poilievre-is-refusing-to-read-the-traitors-report" target="_blank">the security-clearance drama</a>.</p>

Trump will be gone by the time we build any new pipelines, he says. Maybe we should all just relax and go back to the status quo{ai:summary}<p>The French-language leaders' debate prominently featured President Donald Trump, with numerous mentions, while the English-language debate was notably less focused on him. Liberal Leader Mark Carney directed a question to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre regarding security clearance issues. #politics</p>

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