Mark Carney's liberals win key elections in Canada

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Mark Carney won the Canadian election, and the National Broadcasting Corporation expects his parliamentary majority to continue to balance after a campaign led by Donald Trump's relationship with the United States.

According to CBC, Carney’s party is expected to win the most seats and has the right to conduct polls in most parts of the country and to form a government.

But whether he can order a parliamentary majority or must rely on other parties to rule in minority governments The phone call on Monday night was too close.

The result marked an amazing recovery for liberals, who were losing power until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down as party chief earlier this year and was replaced by Carney in March.

His victory will also be welcomed worldwide, a sign that centrist internationalist politics can achieve elections in the Trump era.

After Brexit, Carney operated the Canadian Central Bank during the financial crisis and the Bank of England and believed his experience was prepared to deal with the economic turmoil caused by the U.S. president.

The former Goldman Sachs and Brookfield executive first entered election politics in January and now must engage in key negotiations with Canada’s largest trading partner and gather global efforts to limit the damage to Trump’s trade policy.

Liberals took advantage of the surge in patriotism in the face of Trump’s tariffs on Canada and mocked it as the “51st country” of the United States as Carney made a campaign theme that violated Trump’s campaign theme.

"This is Canada and we decided what to do here," the prime minister said to the country's end message before the vote on Monday.

When Trump’s tariffs became the central issue of the campaign, Carney told voters that the old Canadian-US relationship was “end” and vowed to “extensive renegotiate” trade agreements between countries.

Poilievre led the polls for several years until Trudeau withdrew from the U.S. president stepped up his attack on Canada, and in recent weeks he tried to shake the liberals’ efforts to portray him as a Magya populist who would not be able to fight the U.S. president.

As voters moved to two major parties, the NDP supported the minority government in parliament.