Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday eliminating trade barriers within Canada would benefit Canadians far more than U.S. President Donald Trump can ever take away with his trade war as he made his case to retain power at the last debate ahead of the April 28 vote.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the key question in Canada’s election is who is best to deal with US President Donald Trump. His Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre argued during Wednesday’s French-language leaders’ debate in Montreal that Mr Carney does not represent change after a decade of Liberal Party of Canada rule and is just like his predecessor,

Carney, a Harvard-educated technocrat two months into his political career, has capitalized on his image as a steady hand at the tiller in an economic storm.