Conservatives still on top, but race tightens after Trudeaus departure: Ipsos – National [Video]

The Liberal Party appears to be enjoying a polling bump at the expense of the Conservatives after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement he will not lead the party into the next election, according to the latest numbers from Ipsos Research for Global News.

Trudeau’s pending departure and the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war seem to be tightening the race in federal voting intention, despite voters not knowing who will become the next Liberal leader and prime minister.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives still have a commanding lead in the national poll, with 41 per cent of respondents saying they’d vote for the party if an election were held tomorrow. That’s a 13 percentage point lead over the governing Liberals (28 per cent), according to the poll taken while the imminent threat of Trump’s tariffs loomed.

But the Liberals have seen an eight percentage point jump in their numbers compared with Ipsos’s survey …