6 days Ago By Quim Aranda
Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, won Monday's early legislative elections. Donald Trump and his trade war with Canada have lost. The Canadian Liberal Party, which led the party for ten years, In January, he will be able to form his fourth consecutive government.
Carney's victory represents one of the greatest comebacks in the country's political history, if we take into account the polls from two months ago, which predicted a huge defeat for the ruling party. The Trump effect, however, his tariffs and the proclamations by the US president to integrate the neighboring country as a new state of the Union, have favored the recovery of the liberals, with Carney fiercely opposed to the Republican magnate and his economic policies. In fact, hours before the start of the election, on his network, Truth Social, Trump once again spoke of the supposed advantages for the country of integrating into the United States.
Canadians have not believed it and, in fact, the Liberal Party has substantially improved its results in relation to the last elections, with 165 of the 343 in the chamber, 11 more deputies than in the 2021 elections – only 7 from an absolute majority –, and 7% of an absolute majority –, and 7 of an absolute majority –, and almost four years ago. The Conservatives have won 147 deputies; the Bloc Quebecois, 23; the NDP (New Democratic Party) 7 and the Greens, 1. , former governor of the Bank of Canada and also of the Bank of England, has been such that in his district he obtained 64% of the vote, the first time he ran for office.
the Trump administration. "America wants our land, our resources, our water. But these are not empty threats; President Trump is trying to break us so that the United States can own us.
This will never happen, in life," he said in Ottawa. "We have never overcome ourselves and, above all, we must take care of each other," he emphasized. Carney's victory, having officially replaced Trudeau in March, will also be welcomed around the world as a sign that centrist policies of multilateralism can triumph electorally in the Trump era.
Not coincidentally, and contrary to tradition for all Canadian prime ministers upon taking office, his first foreign visit was to Paris and London, not Washington. Carney led the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis and the Bank of England during Brexit, and has used his experience, along with a combative nationalism against Trump's annexationist will, as preparation for dealing with the economic instability brought about by the US president. An agreement to negotiate From now on, the former Goldman Sachs and Brookfield executive will have to manage crucial negotiations with Canada's main trading partner, at a time when the world is trying to limit the damage from Trump's trade policy.
While Trump's remarks dominated the campaign, Carney went out of his way to send a message to voters, saying that the traditional relationship with the US was "over." Carney will enter Parliament for the first time as an MP for the riding of Nepean. In Ottawa, Trudeau resigned and the US president stepped up his attacks on Canada.
He has had a hard time in recent weeks shaking off the Liberals' attempts to portray him as a "MAGA" populist, incapable of standing up to the American president. "We know change is needed, but," Poilievre said Tuesday morning, "it takes effort, and that's why we have to learn the lessons from tonight to get an even better result the next time Canadians decide the country's future." The Bloc Quebecois has also seen its results drop compared to 2021, dropping from 32 deputies to 23.
Although the BK did not form a government with Trudeau, it did support him from time to time..
