Mark Carney wins the Canadian elections dominated by Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the leader of the Liberal Party, won the federal elections of the country on Monday, a career dominated by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

However, it is not clear if Carney’s party will win enough seats to form a majority government.

In his speech of Victoria pronounced from Ottawa, Carney said that Canada will remain strong in front of Trump’s attacks.

“The United States wants our land, our resources, our water, our country, never. But these are not, these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that the United States can own us,” he said. “That never, that will never happen.”

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Carney, who was chosen to take care of the leadership of the liberals in March after a leadership contest of the party caused by the resignation of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seems to have reaped the benefits of Trump’s adverse posture towards the neighboring country.

Trump asks that Canada becomes state 51 of the United States and their tariffs against the country reversed the fortune of the liberals, who followed the conservatives led by the career politician Pierre Poilievre for more than 20 percentage points in December, according to the economist, which caused the impressive change.

In another important development, Pailievre lost its seat in Parliament after more than 20 years representing the Carleton district.

Even Monday, Trump made a disconcerting position on his social platform of truth, which suggests that Canadian voters should choose it leader despite the fact that his name was not even on the electoral ballot. In addition, the overwhelming majority of Canadians oppose the possibility of joining the United States, according to surveys.

Carney, who focused his campaign in Trump, made it clear that the president of the United States has fundamentally changed the relationship between his two countries.

“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on the constant increase in integration, is over,” he said. “The open global trade system anchored by the United States, a system in which Canada has based since World War II, a system that, although it is not perfect, has helped offer prosperity for a country for decades, has ended.”

“We have overcome the commotion of American betrayal, but we must never forget the lessons,” he continued.

Poilievre, the leader of the conservatives, expected to take advantage of Trudeau’s unpopularity and capitalize on issues such as inflation and immigration, which dominated the minds of the voters before Trump became the X factor X of the elections. However, some voters seemed to worry that Pailievre’s style was too similar to Trump’s, a perception amplified by the ads led by the liberals with the aim of linking it with the president of the United States. Trudeau’s resignation also seems to have helped liberals close the gap.

Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, had no political experience before taking over the leadership of his party earlier this year.