Toronto - Canadians will decide whether Monday will put the Liberal Party in power for a decade or put conservatives in manual control. They would choose the direction that Prime Minister Mark Carney or opposition leader Pierre Poilievre leads, but the election is also a referendum for people who are not even Canadians: Donald Trump.

Until the U.S. president won his second term and began to threaten Canada's economy and sovereignty, even suggesting that the country should become the 51st state, the Liberal Party seemed to be heading for failure.

Polls have been opened in the Atlantic Ocean of Canada. Canadians voted to pass efforts to be hit by a deadly car attack in Vancouver on Saturday. Tragedy on the eve of the election prompted people to shut down for several hours. Police ruled out terrorism and said the suspect was a local and had a history of mental health problems.

Trump’s atrocities have angered many 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. Trump also placed Poilievre and the Conservatives on their back feet after a relaxed victory a few months ago.

Carney recently said: “Americans want to break us so they can have us.” He thinks he thinks the bet of elections. "These are not just words. That's risky."

Poilievre, a populist flame running against Trump-like Bravado, had hoped to make the election a referendum for former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose popularity declined at the end of the decade as food and housing prices rose and immigration rose. But then Trump became the main problem, and Poilievre's similarities to the bombing of the president could cost him.

"He called for the same dissatisfaction," Canadian historian Robert Bothwell said of the conservative leader. "Like Trump stands there and says, 'I'm your retribution.'"

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

Whichever candidate becomes prime minister will face many challenges.

Canada has been dealing with the cost of living crisis for some time. More than 75% of exports are exported to the United States, so Trump threatens to impose widespread tariffs and his desire to allow North American automakers to transfer Canadian production to the South could seriously damage Canada's economy.

Both Carney and Poilievre said they would accelerate renegotiation of a free trade agreement between Canada and the United States if elected to end uncertainty that hurts their economies.

In particular, Carney had already experienced economic crisis when he ran the Central Bank of Canada after becoming the first non-UK citizen to run the Bank of England.

Trump called his conversations about Canada during the campaign until last week when he said Canada “will no longer exist in a country” if the U.S. stops buying goods. He also said that when he said he should be a state, he was not only trolling in Canada.

"The liberals should pay him," Botwell said. "Trump's speech is not good for conservatives."

In response to the threat of Canadian sovereignty, Carney begged voters to take on a powerful task of dealing with Trump.

"President Trump has some obsessed ideas, and this is one," Carney said of his annexation threat. "It's not a joke. It's his very strong desire to achieve this. It's one of the reasons why this crisis is so serious."