内容摘要：The results in the local elections were worse than Conservatives had feared, with the party not only losing councils to Reform but also the Liberal Democrats.

The results in the local elections were worse than Conservatives had feared, with the party not only losing councils to Reform but also the Liberal Democrats.

My top concern is not this so-called crisis with the US; I want Canadians to have some hope for the future, while right now there's a sense of despair.I know many people saw Pierre Poilievre as an attack dog when he was the opposition leader, but since he's been campaigning to be PM, I've seen a different side of him. He seems to really be able to connect with ordinary people.

It's absolutely baffling [that the Conservatives lost a 20 point lead]. I think people are going to be very, very disappointed. The Liberals are the same party; Carney is just one person. And he's not going to change anything.Rather than vote for a party, I voted for the leader of the party. I voted Liberal, and that has much to do with Carney and the experience that he has.When I'm hiring someone for work, I ask for a CV. You see the things [Carney] has done at the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and his competence and contacts impress me.

Poilievre is a career politician, and we've had nine years of a career politician.I'm a Conservative Party member, I would normally have voted Conservative, but I don't think Poilievre has the required experience [to be prime minister].

It's probably the first time in my life I'm voting for a leader as opposed to a party.

The NDP is offering more to Indigenous people, and that's a big reason why I'll be voting NDP.If the US importing firm passes on the cost of the tariff to the person buying the product in the US in the form of higher retail prices, it would be the US consumer that bears the economic burden.

If the US importing firm absorbs the cost of the tariff itself and doesn’t pass it on, then that firm is said to bear the economic burden in the form of lower profits than it would otherwise have enjoyed.Alternatively, it is possible that foreign exporters might have to lower their wholesale prices by the value of the tariff in order to retain their US customers.

In that scenario, the exporting firm would bear the economic burden of the tariff in the form of lower profits.All three scenarios are theoretically possible.