Just three months ago, the Liberal Party in Canada was far behind in the polls before Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as leader. Then Donald Trump became the defining issue of the campaign after treating our U.S. neighbors like dirt while promoting Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Truth Social. This election became one of the most consequential in Canada’s recent history.
The Liberal Party did not win the 172 seats needed for an outright majority in Parliament. The party missed by a handful of seats.
“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” Carney said in his victory speech in Ottawa. “The system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for our country for decades, is over.”
“These are tragedies, but it’s also our new reality,” he said. “As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us,” Carney said. “That will never ever happen.”
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