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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney won the election, leading his Liberal Party to a new term in power. Carney, who had never held elected office and only replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister last month, anchored his campaign on an anti-Trump message, promising to expand Canada’s overseas trading relationships to curb reliance on the United States. Trump’s trade war and annexation threats outraged Canadians and made dealing with the United States a top campaign issue.
Carney, a 60-year-old former investment banker, anchored his campaign on an anti-Trump message, promising to expand Canada’s overseas trading relationships to curb reliance on the United States, a country he said “we can no longer trust.” He has described the threat of Trump in stark terms, saying that “Donald Trump wants to break us so America can own us.”
When the CBC projection was announced, cheers of joy erupted at the Ottawa venue where Liberal supporters were watching the results. Dorothy Goubault, 72, said she is happy in the sense that they have got somebody that can speak to Mr. Trump on his level. Steven Guilbeault, a Liberal lawmaker and a member of Carney’s cabinet, tied the outcome to Trump.
Trudeau’s departure was also crucial to the Liberal win, which capped one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history. On January 6, the day Trudeau announced he would resign, the Conservatives led the Liberals by more than 20 points in most polls. But Carney replacing Trudeau, combined with nationwide unease about Trump, transformed the race.
Carney distanced himself from Trudeau throughout the campaign, saying the former prime minister did not focus enough on growing Canada’s economy and scrapped a controversial Trudeau tax on carbon emissions that left many voters seething. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a 45-year-old who has been in parliament for two decades, was criticized for the at-times muted anger he directed towards Trump but said he wanted to keep the focus on domestic concerns.
