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Not the 51st State
'Our old relationship with the US is over': Mark Carney’s Liberal Party wins Canadian election
Trump’s trade war and annexation threats outraged Canadians and made dealing with the United States a top campaign issue.
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER Mark Carney’s party has won the country’s national election, securing another term in power after convincing voters it is the party best placed to navigate the turmoil created by US President Donald Trump.
As the election polls closed, the Liberal Party were projected to win more of parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservative Party, though they may not win an outright majority, meaning they would need to rely on one or more smaller parties to form a government and pass legislation.
The win has been hailed as a stunning political turnaround for a party which had been considered doomed to fail just months ago.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has congratulated Carney on his success.
“Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on your election victory,” Martin wrote on social media this morning.
“Irish-Canadian relations are deep and strong, based on shared values. I look forward to working with Canada’s new government.
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has also offered his congratulations, adding: “At this pivotal moment, we look forward to deepening the partnership between our nations, and working together to address the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.”
‘America wants our land… that will never happen’
Carney, who had never held elected office and only replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister last month, previously served as central bank governor in both Canada and Britain.
“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” Carney said in a victory speech in Ottawa.
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen,” he said.
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In his speech, Carney called for unity, reminding Canadians of the challenges posed by ongoing hostilities with the US – the issue that he put at the heart of his campaign.
“Let’s put an end to the division and anger of the past. We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone,” he said.
On Trump, Carney said that his first meeting with the US President will be to discuss the future economy and security relationship “between two sovereign nations”.
“It will be our full knowledge that we have many, many other options to build prosperity for all Canadians.”
He reiterated his promise to make the Canadian economy less dependent on the US and to reduce barriers to interprovincial trade.
People in the crowd often piped up, saying, “No! Never!” when Carney mentioned Trump’s desire to claim Canadian land.
Trump’s trade war and annexation threats outraged Canadians and made dealing with the United States a top campaign issue.
His actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the election narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power.
“We were dead and buried in December. Now we are going to form a government,” David Lametti, a former Liberal Justice Minister, told broadcaster CTV. “We have turned this around thanks to Mark,” he said.
The Conservative Party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, hoped to make the election a referendum on former prime minister Justin Trudeau, whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose – but Trump attacked, Trudeau resigned and Carney, a two-time central banker, became the Liberal Party’s leader and prime minister.
In a speech conceding defeat and with his own seat in the House of Commons still in doubt, Poilievre said he would keep fighting for Canadians and their right to an affordable home on a safe street.
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Historian Robert Bothwell said Poilievre appealed to the “same sense of grievance” as Trump but that it ultimately cost him with voters.
Even with Canadians grappling with the fallout from a deadly weekend attack at a Vancouver street festival, Trump was trolling them on election day, suggesting on social media that he was on their ballot and repeating that Canada should become the 51st state.
He also erroneously claimed that the US subsidises Canada, writing: “It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”
Trump has infuriated many Canadians, leading many to cancel US vacations, refuse to buy American goods and possibly even vote early. A record 7.3 million Canadians cast ballots before election day.
“The Americans want to break us so they can own us,” Carney said in the run-up to election day. “Those aren’t just words. That’s what’s at risk.”
Liberal Party's supporters cheer on results at the party election night headquarters Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press via AP/Alamy
Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press via AP/Alamy / The Canadian Press via AP/Alamy
Foreign policy had not dominated a Canadian election as much as it did this year’s since 1988, when, ironically, free trade with the United States was the prevailing issue.
In addition to the trade war with the US and frosty relationship with Trump, Canada is dealing with a cost-of-living crisis. More than 75% of its exports go to the US, so Trump’s tariffs threat and his desire to get North American automakers to move Canada’s production south could severely damage the Canadian economy.
While campaigning, Carney vowed that every dollar the the government collects from counter-tariffs on US goods will go towards Canadian workers who are adversely affected by the trade war.
He also said he plans to keep dental care in place, offer a middle-class tax cut, return immigration to sustainable levels and increase funding to Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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@Ollie Fitzpatrick: you’ve no idea what you’re talking about. You’re mislead. That’s an absolute disaster economically for Canadians on so many levels. I’ve visited Canada several times over the last twenty years. It’s beyond expensive. It’s now going to get much worse. Another climate con man.
@Johnny Lee: I know exactly what I am talking about (It’s my job!). I am wrong in your eyes because I don’t agree with your warped Maga rhetoric. You are blinded by Trumps bu!!$hit.
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: I’m not a Trump fan, but you are wrong mate. This is not the guy for Canada. I’ve family in Vancouver who’ve suffered Trudeau for ten years. This guy is more of the same but worse. If you’ve done your homework on this guy, and you think he’s a good choice for Canadians, you need help. Trump handed this election to him. Trumps either monumentally blundered here, or, there’s method to the madness. Either way, it’s worrying.
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: the irony coming from someone who can’t think beyond Trump.
Trudeau and the liberals have been an absolute disaster for Canadians the last decade, but lets have more of the same because… Trump?
@Johnny Lee: move to a third world country, cheap living… Canada is a successful country worldwide and has high quality of life. This makes it more expensive to live in… But it is better than being poor, ask anyone would they want Ireland back in the early 80s
@Johnny Lee: agreed
they should have been wiped out after what they did to their people during and after COVID. they were set to defeat. it’s crazy how a good old pr stunt can do to reverse the scores.
they have no intention of holding their promises. it will be soon back
as normal
@Johnny Lee: so you think they have not considered this and voted the way they wanted to anyway…or perhaps they are not as crass as you are and didnt vote with their pocket…Just saying!
Republicans in Canada must be raging! They had it in the bag mid February with an unprecedented 99% level of support. trump’s magic touch strikes again lol!
@Oh Mammy: “Errr what did we just do, eh?”
That’s what all the yanks that voted for trump are thinking as the stores empty of goods and the ports have no ships coming in from china with all their shit.
Trump has just ruined his economy
@Fiona: They’re not called Republicans for obvious reasons, I’m glad to see the Conservatives lose and Canada stand up to the Orange Madman and his unhinged supporters as well.
@Seamus Enright: it was a complete flip from Conservative to Liberal. I wonder will internal and external pressure finally succeed in ousting trump. He’s been very quiet lately, no outlandish schemes or declarations, apart from his embarrassing ‘Vladimir, STOP’ outburst.
@Maniac 2000: their oil? How do you get that sludge to either coast? How to you get it to Europe? Where is such sludge processed in Europe? How do you get back.to Canada the distillate they need? The orange one is brash but what Canada did was for the applause of those that hate Trump, not not the good.of their country.
Loving the Maga tears. Maybe they should all move to Florida. The entire world and over 60% of Americans hate Trump, MAGA is dead and it’s marvellous to watch it implode.
@FoxyBoiiYT: MAGA moves to Florida. One year later comes a stream of ex-MAGA death metal albums called things like ‘Posthumous Gingrich Entrail Gorge’, ‘Dermestidae Exhumations of MAGA Graves’, ‘Q Anon Dissection Feast’ or maybe ‘Foul Fries and the Mc Colon of Mitch McConnell’ ;)
@FoxyBoiiYT: MAGA elites are, indeed, self-destructive. But, MAGA is far far from biggly deadness. The unwashed MAGA hordes will stay with Trump forever, pausing only to reload.
@Oh Mammy: Pollievre was a Trump Light. Flew too close to the sun with that nonsense. Delighted that there are still countries that prefer not to run to populism.
@Colm O’ Shea: my opinion only. Canada had had it with Trudeau. He was a disaster. They were tossing the liberals out by huge margins until the orange man made some comments that ruffled their feathers. So instead of taking care of their county they elected a central banker, a central effin banker???? One who never held a seat in parliament. Look, hate trump all you want, but a central banker?? It would be like us voting in irelands worst landlord because they told.trump to f o.
@Robert Halvey: Oh look sellout is here being a hypocrite again. Why are you still supporting US businesses and technology when telling others not to?.
This is at least one success Trump is legitimately responsible for, although unwittingly so. He was shooting his mouth off again about Canada at the weekend. To the pro-Trump accounts here….you can’t ignore 99% of blatant reality in desperate attempts to present him as capable, intelligent and effective. He’s a low IQ putz with serial gross failings as a human. That’s why a down and out Liberal Party won a 4th consecutive term.
@Numinous20111: and this has happened on Trumps 100th day. He hasn’t achieved one of his objectives in that period, Canada is still sovereign, as is Greenland, more tariffs are being reversed for auto industry, the other ones probably won’t happen in the form he said, Ukraine is still at war, Gaza is still getting bombed despite US ” peace” talks, US foreign visitors down about 70% and not expected to improve, US dollar no longer the ” safe haven ” it has been since WW2.
@Rian O’Callaghan: you mean for speaking out on behalf of the worlds oppressed. Has to be a first for a boy band. Excellent value for money cosplay. Airbrushing history for profit. Hell yeah!
@Alan: They are an absolute joke and nothing but a stage show admitting they don’t believe in what they say playing up to the children who think they are edgy but are in fact nothing more than an embarrassment
@Rian O’Callaghan: They’re not rats. Their lack of tails is an immediate giveaway. I’ve never seen a rat in a tricolour balaclava either. Master Splinter may have worn one in solidarity, but he spends so much time recycling pizza boxes, I’m not sure if he has time to check the latest goings on in the music world.
Music, youthful music and protest music will always be confrontational.
Sometimes it’s literal. Other times, it’s a collective outlet for anger at some of the truly appalling leaders in the world. Never forget that the Tories were responsible for so many deaths. Netanyahu and the Israeli hardliners, too, who view the Palestinians as a subspecies to be stolen from and murdered. These are actual deaths. Real deaths. A bit of anger and rebellion that was never meant to be taken in a wholly literal way pales in comparison to the real criminals here.
@Rian O’Callaghan: what do you think of trump ruining the Conservatives’ chance of a win in Canada? Your stable genius is really making a fine mess of everything isn’t he? No wonder you’re talking about something else. How embarrassing for you.
@Alan: You mean for advocating the murder of politicians, for supporting terrorist organisations. They are a joke, playing to those clowns who see them as cool and dangerous.
@Ger Whelan: everyone is entitled righty to their views without fear of persecution. Though it’s not right that certain groups get to dictate how a whole country is run. Liberals reach out to these communities, throws them little here and there just to appease them for votes, but slowly destroy the country they live in. New immigrants get sucked into this as well. Liberal motto now is Canada second.
It’s time that all of us in the North Atlantic recognize that MAGA is run by Billionaire bullies who want to just take our resources. We must all band together to stop and repel MAGA rule.
@Ed Ruttledge: Apparently there’s a new version MAGDA…Making Americas Great Depression Again. The average American will for the most part ignore the global situation, but over time the reality will set in ……Las Vegas hotels are firing people when normally they start hiring, March “goods ” deficit was €18bn more in March at 168bn v est. 148bn every metric is now pointing to a crash and a lot of hedge funds are factoring a huge correction as much as 30% in one extreme.
Canada needs to suffer even more before the low IQ population gets over this cult attachment to a corrupt party. Many liberal voters are those who do not want to face life and better themselves. 3rd world at this stage
If all of you writing here out as much effort into Irish politics this country might be better. Them again yanks and Canadians are a bit slow so that explains the comments.
It’s all gone pear shaped for Trump since his Liquidation Day. Getting Carney elected is another example. Keep going Trump – soon the dollar will be worthless and US bonds untrusted. A new Argentina maybe!
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