Canada's Conservative leader invoked an old foe Wednesday in a high-stakes leaders debate dominated at times by the specter of Donald Trump. “You’re just like Justin Trudeau,” Pierre Poilievre told Liberal Leader Mark Carney during Canada’s French-language debate in Montreal.

Canadians have had their first chance to see the four main federal party leaders face off in the French debate. Mercedes Stephenson looks at how Liberal Leader Mark Carney tried to sell himself; how Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dialled down his normally aggressive tone;