Trump’s tariffs and preposterous taunts Canada led to liberals to victory in Canada.
Canadians Elect Mark Carney’s Liberals to Confront Trump
The Wall Street Journal reports Canadians Elect Mark Carney’s Liberals to Confront Trump
Canadians kept the Liberal Party in power, entrusting Prime Minister Mark Carney to forge a new course for their struggling economy and stand up to President Trump.
Carney’s Liberals were set to win a fourth term in national elections on Monday, Canadian broadcast networks said. It wasn’t clear whether his Liberals would win a majority of seats or a smaller share that would require them to win support from other parties to govern, the broadcaster said. Carney, former head of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, became prime minister after Justin Trudeau stepped down in January.
Carney’s victory is a remarkable one for a Liberal Party headed for defeat at the start of this year. The Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, had more than a 20-point lead, reflecting voter fatigue with a three-term Trudeau administration and anger over inflation and high housing costs.
Trudeau’s resignation and Trump’s return to the White House precipitated a reversal in fortunes for the Liberals under Carney, who said he was the best candidate to handle Trump and reshape an economy dependent on U.S. demand. Left-leaning politicians in Australia and the U.K., too, have benefited from appearing to best embody opposition to Trump’s plans.
Carney has said Canada needs to lower internal trade barriers and do more business with Europe and Asia after decades of ever-tightening economic and security cooperation with the U.S. He touted his experience leading the Bank of Canada during the financial crisis and the Bank of England after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union.
“Carney has the economic know-how to deal with a childlike Trump,” Maria Longo, a mortgage broker from Montreal, said over the weekend ahead of the vote. “Trump is ruining the world.”
Poilievre suffered for rhetoric too similar to Trump’s, pollsters said. Abacus Data polling last week indicated that 46% of Canadians held a negative perception of Poilievre, the highest level since the start of the campaign.
Tariffs and Taunts
Trump repeated taunts that Canada should become the 51 US state despite the fact that it helped liberals.
Trump broke his own “best in history” USMCA trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he personally negotiated.
And for much of the year, Trump treated Canada worse than China.
As a result, another liberal clown is heading up the Canadian government.
Effectively, Trump was on the ballot in Canada, and lost.
Lost Opportunity
Had Conservatives won, Trump could have forged better ties over energy and cooperated on rare earth minerals.
Instead, the outcome is bad for Canada and bad for the US.
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Please read over and over Cheese Was a “Key Achievement” of Trump’s USMCA Trade Agreement
The above post contains over a dozen instances in which Trump bragged what a great deal.
It was such a great deal that Trump thanked Mexico and Canada. Notably USMCA is “Good for everybody – Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions – tremendous support. Importantly, we will finally end our Country’s worst Trade Deal, NAFTA!”
Then he trashed the best trade relationship in the whole world, for less than nothing.
The US and Canada both lose from Trumpian idiocies.