Wednesday’s debate was the first of two nationally televised contests in Canada’s five-week election campaign, which has fixated at times on the damage Trump’s trade policy is inflicting on Canadians.

Canadians will vote on Monday to choose the leader they consider best able to navigate a new world of uncertainty created by the election of Donald Trump as US president. The question of leadership, rather than party choice or domestic politics,

Canada elects a new government on Monday to confront annexation threats from the United States and deal directly with President Donald Trump, whose trade war has defined the campaign.

Starting just after 6 a.m., the lawmakers addressed viewers about the Trump administration’s proposed budget that they said would slash programs in housing, health care and education that help millions of Americans,