Potential Carney Leadership Boosts Liberals as NDP Voters Shift, Narrowing Gap with Tories: Poll

Mark Carney speaks during his Liberal leadership campaign launch in Edmonton on Jan. 16, 2025. (The Canadian Press/Jason Franson) Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Jan. 19, 2025, as she kicks off her campaign to become the next Liberal party leader. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

Canada’s federal political landscape is shifting as some Liberal and NDP supporters back leadership contender Mark Carney, intensifying the competition between the governing Liberal and Conservative parties, a new poll suggests.

Support for the Liberals has risen to 37 percent under the hypothetical leadership of former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, placing the party a close second behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives who lead voting intent at 40 percent, according to new polling from the Angus Reid Institute.