In a moment of national crisis, Canadians don’t seem to be in the mood for politicians getting their elbows up on one another at home.

Pierre Poilievre tacitly acknowledged that on Friday when he prefaced his hyper-partisan press conference with an attack on Donald Trump, who he said should “knock it off and stop the chaos.”

Poilievre has something of a Trump problem, with some polling suggesting people believe that he is similar to, or even friendly with, the president.