Mark Carney’s Liberals have won the Canadian election and a fourth term in Government as Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his seat despite scoring the highest Conservative vote since 1988 in a result blamed on Trump. The Telegraph has more.
Donald Trump will not “break” Canada, Mark Carney promised during his election victory speech in Ottawa last night.
The Liberal leader secured a comeback victory for the party, which had been set for an electoral wipeout under Justin Trudeau.
Speaking to supporters, Mr Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, said Mr Trump’s repeated description of Canada as the 51st state was not an “idle threat”.
“President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us, that will never ever happen,” he said.
It remains unclear whether the Liberal Party has won enough seats to form a majority, with counting ongoing.
Pierre Poilievre, the defeated Conservative leader, said “hard lessons” had been learnt. He could still lose his seat in Carleton, Ottawa.
Worse for Poilievre, he has lost his seat in Carleton, Ontario, according to projections.
CBC News projected a 19-point surge for the Liberal Party’s candidate in Carleton, a seat Mr Poilievre had held since 2004.
It caps off a disastrous night for Canada’s Conservative party, which lost the election to Mark Carney’s Liberal Party.
Mr Poilievre’s party had been set to oust the Liberal Party when it was led by Justin Trudeau.
But the Liberals surged in the polls once Mr Trudeau resigned and Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The US President’s trade war upended the global economy and changed the dynamic of the Canadian election.
The Conservative leader struggled to shake the image of being tied to the MAGA movement after running a “Canada First” campaign.
Carney is currently just short of a majority, though counting continues.
The Conservatives scored their highest vote share since 1988 but the collapse in the NDP’s vote boosted the Liberals and left them in the lead.
How foolish are Canadian voters, asks Michael Taube.
They have just kept a politically inexperienced Prime Minister and largely discredited Liberal minority Government in power because of their frustration with a US President.
That, in a nutshell, is what happened in Monday’s election in the Great White North. …
The economist [Carney] had never run for office. He had no idea how to run a political party on a day-to-day basis – and still doesn’t. His arrogant behaviour and massive ego were often on full display as he criss-crossed my country during the campaign. He called himself a political “outsider” to Jon Stewart, the American talk show host, when he was really an insider who had advised Trudeau for several years.
He barely proposed any original ideas during the campaign, preferring to maintain Trudeau-era policies and steal proposals from the Conservatives. His long-standing support for far-Left policies such as Net Zero climate solutions and a fixation on wealth inequality never came to the forefront during this campaign, for obvious reasons. …
Voters decided to back Carney as the best choice to take on Trump and defend Canada’s sovereignty and security. In spite of the fact that there’s absolutely no evidence that he could do anything to help or improve this situation. They even gave the Liberals a pass on a near-decade of disastrous government so that a Left-wing economist could be in charge of an already-weakened economy. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Oh, Canada. You’ve really messed up now.
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