Several more years of bad policy is a smart choice? Hey, if you say so!

There's a reason why Labour was down 20 points before the 51st state thing flared up: they're incompetent.

I do say so.

I don't think you realize - we're not the good guys to Canada any more. That's not just perception. We genuinely aren't going to be good guys to them - we're out to harm them. We've decided that we're no longer going to act as allies, but as adversaries. We have chosen to treat Canada as a rival going forward - perhaps the most disruptive and damaging shift to their situation that's happened in many decades. For the next three plus years, we are going to be actively working to hurt their economy and to try to eliminate them as a sovereign country so that we can annex them into our own.

So whatever domestic policy problems the Liberal Party (not Labour) has, the number one question for Canada in this election became who was better suited to deal with the American problem. Seen through that filter, Canada made the smart choice for them - because the Conservative party was perceived as being less able to forcefully fight the economic and diplomatic war with the U.S. Trump has made the U.S. the single biggest problem for Canada, and they chose their next government based on who best could try to solve that specific problem.