Toronto - As Canadian liberals celebrate election victory in a huge fortune, until late Tuesday, whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's party will have a full majority in parliament or need help.

Populist conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been elected his parliamentary seat in Monday's election before U.S. President Donald Trump targeted Canada with a trade war and annexation threat.

This has brought the fate of Firebrand Poilievre to a rapid decline, a few months ago he appeared to be Canada's next prime minister and returned to power for the first time in a decade.

Poilievre is a professional politician who runs against Trump-like Bravado, taking a page from the "America First" president by adopting the slogan "Canada First." But his similarities with Trump may end up losing him and his party.

The Liberal Party is expected to win 343 seats in Congress, rather than conservatives. It is unclear whether they will win a majority (at least 172 seats) or need to rely on a smaller party to pass legislation.

The Canadian election said it decided to suspend the calculation of special ballot statistics - cast by voters leaving the area during the election - until late Tuesday. When liberals were suspended, liberals were selected for 168 seats, second only to the majority. The Canadian election estimates that uncounted votes could affect the outcomes in about a dozen regions.

Canadians didn’t know until later that day whether Carney’s liberals won the minority or majority mission.

In his victory speech, Carney emphasized unity in the face of Washington’s threat. He said that since the end of World War II, Canada and the United States have shared the mutually beneficial systems.

"We are shocked by the shock of American betrayal, but we should never forget the lesson," he said.

"As I warned for months, the United States wants our land, our resources, our water, our country," Carney added. "These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that the United States can have us. This will never... happen forever. But we must also recognize that our world has changed such a reality."

Poilievre hopes to make the election a referendum for former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose popularity at the end of his decade has declined as food and housing prices rise.

But Trump was attacked, Trudeau resigned, and two-time central banker Carney became Liberal Party leader and prime minister.

In a charter speech ahead of the competition, Poilievre vowed to continue fighting for the Canadians.

"We realized that we haven't overcome the finish line yet," Poilievre said. "We knew there was a need for change, but it was hard to achieve. It took time. It took work. That's why we had to learn tonight's lesson."

Daniel Béland, a professor of political science at McGill University, said there is nothing to stop the poilievre from keeping conservative leaders out of seats, but if he decides to stay, he will need to run in another area - perhaps by asking conservative MPs in conservative areas to resign.

"Nevertheless, losing your seat when some people in your own party think that the main reason you fail to win is a clear problem with Poilievre," said Belland.

“In addition, the leaders of the official opposition who did not sit in the House of Commons again are obviously a problem for the Conservatives, especially if we end up with a minority parliament.”

Even as Canadians struggled to deal with the deadly weekend attack at Vancouver Street Music Festival, Trump dragged them on Election Day, claiming he was voting, wrongly claiming that the United States would subsidize Canada, writing: “Unless Canada is a state, it doesn’t make sense!”

Trump’s atrocities have angered Canadians, causing many to cancel their holidays in the United States, refuse to buy American goods, and may even vote early. A record 7.3 million Canadians voted before Election Day.

Toronto resident Reid Warren said he voted for liberals because poilievre “sounds like a mini Trump to me.” He said Trump’s tariffs were worrying.

"You know, all the shadows Canadians throw from the United States are great, but there is certainly some turmoil, that's for sure," he said.

Foreign policy has not ruled the Canadian election so much since 1988, when free trade with the United States was a common problem.

Carney and the liberals face a difficult challenge.

If they don't win a majority in parliament, liberals may need to rely on a smaller party. Québécois looks to be third, a separate party from the French-speaking Quebec seeking independence. Trudeau's liberals rely on the New Democrats for four years, but the Progressive Party performed poorly on Monday, and its leader Jagmeet Singh said he resigned after eight years in charge.

"It seems that liberals won't get a majority, but[the New Democrats]will support them as before. I don't want any formal deals between the two sides."

In addition to the trade war with the United States and its frost relationship with Trump, Canada is also dealing with the crisis of cost of living. More than 75% of exports are exported to the United States, so Trump’s tariff threat and his desire to move North American automakers to the southward move to production in southern Canada could seriously damage the economy.

Carney vowed that every dollar the government collects from the anti-election of U.S. goods will move towards Canadian workers who are adversely affected. He also said he plans to provide middle-class tax cuts, return immigrants to sustainable levels and increase funding to the Canadian public broadcaster.

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AP reporter Mike Houseporder is located in Miseissauga, Ontario, and contributed to the report.