{"id":72392,"date":"2025-04-29T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72392"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:22:47","slug":"carneys-liberals-win-canada-election-defined-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/carneys-liberals-win-canada-election-defined-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney\u2019s Liberals win Canada election defined by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA: Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-votes-for-new-government-to-take-on-trump\/\"> Mark Carney<\/a> won\u00a0Canada\u2019s election\u00a0on Monday, local media projected, leading his Liberal Party to a new term in power after convincing voters his experience managing economic crises prepared him to confront United States President<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-says-pakistan-india-to-settle-dispute-one-way-or-another\/\"> Donald Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The public broadcaster\u00a0<em>CBC<\/em>\u00a0and other outlets\u00a0projected\u00a0the Liberals would form Canada\u2019s next government, but it was not yet clear if they would hold a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre fell short of becoming prime minister, but his party was on track to form a strong opposition in parliament<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s\u00a0trade war\u00a0and threats to\u00a0annex Canada, which he renewed in an election day social media post, outraged Canadians and made dealing with the US a top campaign issue.<\/p>\n<p>Carney, who had never held elected office and only replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister last month, anchored his campaign on an anti-Trump message.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as central bank governor in both Britain and Canada and persuaded voters his global financial experience has prepared him to guide Canada through a trade war.<\/p>\n<p>Carney, who also had a lucrative career as an investment banker before joining Canada\u2019s public service, promised to expand overseas trading relations to curb Canada\u2019s reliance on the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Carney\u2019s descriptions of the Trump threat have been stark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump wants to break us so America can own us,\u201d he said during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want our resources, they want our water, they want our land, they want our country. They can\u2019t have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 29 million of Canada\u2019s 41 million people were eligible to vote in the massive G7 country that spans six time zones. A record 7.3 million people cast advanced ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Results were still pending on the shape of Canada\u2019s 343 members of parliament, with 172 seats needed for a majority. The Liberals won a majority in 2015 but have governed with a minority since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA: Prime Minister Mark Carney won\u00a0Canada\u2019s election\u00a0on Monday, local media projected, leading his Liberal Party to a new term in power after convincing voters his experience managing economic crises prepared him to confront United States President Donald Trump. The public broadcaster\u00a0CBC\u00a0and other outlets\u00a0projected\u00a0the Liberals would form Canada\u2019s next government, but it was not yet clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":72265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28275,28276],"class_list":["post-72392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada-election","tag-liberals-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72393,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72392\/revisions\/72393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}