Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada won a new term last night, according to the national broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada, in a remarkable turnaround for the Liberal Party owed in large part to President Trump’s aggressive stance toward the country.
It is still too early to tell if the Liberal Party has secured a majority of seats in the House of Commons, or if it will be forced to form a minority government.
Until just a few months ago, the Conservative Party, run by career politician Pierre Poilievre, seemed all but certain to win. But Trump and his relentless focus on Canada upended the race, securing the Liberal Party a fourth term. Trump has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods, pushing it toward a recession, and repeatedly threatened to annex it as the 51st state.
Knock-on effects: The result highlights how Trump’s brand of conservative politics can turn toxic for conservatives elsewhere if they are seen as being too closely aligned. Poilievre, who railed against “radical woke ideology,” pledged to defund Canada’s national broadcaster and said he would cut foreign aid, seemed to have lost centrist voters, polls suggested.
Who is Mark Carney? Carney, who has been prime minister since March, is a Harvard- and Oxford-educated economist who served as governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 global financial crisis and the Bank of England during Brexit and who promoted himself as the anti-Trump candidate.
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