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Lorne Gunter: Poilievre Conservatives were unprepared for Trump/Carney ground shift, but it's not too late to get serious

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Lorne Gunter : Conservatives have failed to pivot from strategy they devised to defeat Trudeau to a newer, grown-up strategy that reassures voters they are riled up by Trump .

The fault isn't entirely Trump ’s (although he deserves most of the blame) It is also the fact that the Poilievre Conservatives have not responded fast enough to Trump or to Carney 's election.

The Conservatives have to emphasize Carney 's ethics vulnerability and show how far left he is on a host of issues.

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