Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday accused newly crowned Liberal Leader Mark Carney of trying to “distract” from how he spent his time before entering politics by focusing on U.S. President Donald Trump.

In the final stretch of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) leadership race, Mark Carney held a militant rally Thursday night in Montreal. He attacked the Conservative leader, presenting him as a politician who would have difficulty opposing the threats of the American president.

Those domestic concerns have been eclipsed by Trump’s swingeing on-again, off-again tariffs and annexation talk — which many Canadians are taking very seriously. For more than a year, the opposition Conservative party and its Trump-inspired leader Pierre Poilievre had led Trudeau’s Liberals by up to 20 points or more.