Mark Carney will go head-to-head with Pierre Poilievre and Canada’s other political leaders in a general election debate tonight. Mr Carney, who took over from Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister last month, is likely to win enough seats to remain in office and win a fourth term for the Liberals, polling predicts.

The result of a modern debate is always something of a blur. But what this year's encounters underlined is that this election is primarily about both two very different candidates for prime minister and two very different ideas of what the greatest threat to the country actually is.

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,