Mark Carney becomes Prime Minister as Liberals defeat conservatives

Canadian voters supported Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party on Monday, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said it was too early to know whether liberals would win enough seats to form a majority government, but it expected the party to rule U.S. allies for nearly a decade.

Just a few months ago, they appeared to be ousted by the Conservatives due to public inflation, rising immigration and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's attitude toward Trump (and then president-elect).

Trudeau announced his resignation on January 6, two weeks before Trump took office after polls showed he was struggling with Canadian voters.

Trump's influence on Canadian politics has not ended. He angered Canadians by imposing tariffs and promoting a Quixotic program that Canada should become the 51st state in the United States.

Carney is a former central banker who served as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. In March, he was elected Prime Minister by the Liberal Party.

During the campaign, he touted the experience of the head of Canadian banks during the 2008 financial crisis.

"Mark provides real leadership and practical plans that we need to provide change for our party and our country and build the most powerful economies in the G7," his campaign said.

Poilievre promises change on his campaign court. He seized the job opportunity and promised that Generation Z voters would be able to afford housing. On a Sunday of a rally, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) quoted him as saying the Trudeau administration had “lost a liberal decade of crime, chaos, drugs and chaos.”

His party noted that Poilievre is part of the government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which had been elected as a member of parliament several times before Trudeau's.

Carney was never elected to a political position, but his party emphasized his financial experience and leadership during the 2008 financial crisis and Brexit.

Carney and Poilievre’s comments on Trump’s “51st Country” and his remarks on the Canadian election.

Speaking of the United States, Carney said in a video on social media: "They can become weak and weak." "But it's Canada. We decided what's going on here."

"President Trump, stay away from our elections," Poilievre wrote on X on Monday.

"The only person who decides Canada's future is Canadians in the ballot box," he wrote. "Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent, and we will never be the 51st state."

One voter said he voted for liberals because poilievre “sounds like a mini Trump to me.” Toronto’s Reid Warren told the Associated Press that tariffs are also a problem.

"You know, Canadians are coming together and all the shadows thrown from the United States are great, but that's sure to create some turmoil, that's for sure," Warren said.

Bernie Goldman of Thorne Hill, Ontario, told CBC that the economy is his biggest concern.

"We have a 10-year-old liberal government and I really believe we have spent like drunk sailors, and that's why inflation is."

Trump's tariffs on Canadian imports prompted Ottawa to take retaliation. Trade tensions between neighboring countries have not yet subsided.