Otawa: Canada was voting for a new government on Monday to face the threats of trade war and anxation by President Donald Trump, which pushed the United States to absorb its neighbor as polling stations were opened.
The Liberal Party, led by the new Prime Minister Mark Carney, was set to lose to Conservatives Pierre Polyvere until the US President’s attacks in the country suddenly reversed voting forecasts.
Trump forced himself into Canadian politics on election day with a true social post, saying that Canada would have to face “zero tariffs”, if it becomes a “funded 51st kingdom.”
“It was meant to be!” He said.
60 -year -old Carney never held an elected position and only replaced Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister last month. He had an attractive career as an investment banker before serving as a central bank governor in both Canada and Britain.
Carney has argued that his global financial experience has designed him to guide the Canadian reaction to Trump’s tariff.
He has promised to expand Canada’s economic opportunities to revive internal trade and cut dependence on the United States, a country Carney says “We can no longer trust.”
The United States under Trump “wants to break us, so they can do us themselves,” they have warned again and again.
In the concluding days of the campaign, Carney said, “We do not need chaos, we need to calm down. We do not need anger, we need an adult.”
The 45 -year -old career politician, Polyv, has tried to focus on domestic concerns, which has made Trudeau deeply unpopular in the late decade, raising the costs especially.
The Tory leader has argued that Carney “continued the lost liberal decade,” arguing that only a new conservative government can take action against crime, lack of housing and other non-plant issues, Canadians rank as priorities.
“You can’t handle its four years,” he said over the weekend.
Poilievre has criticized Trump, but insisted that ten -year -old poor generous regime left Canada insecure for a new hostile southern neighbor.
‘A good pick’
The final choice indicates a tight race but puts Carney as a favorite.
Surveys have also consistently seen voters as the best candidate to deal with the pre-central-central banker with Trump.
Montreal resident Hamza Fahri, who plans to vote after work, described the election as “unique”.
The 28 -year -old engineer told AFP, “I wanted to vote for a change in Canada. I wanted Liberals, but in the end, I would vote for Carney as he is a strong, serious person and the country needs to face Trump,” the 28 -year -old engineer told AFP.
But Kelsey Leschasin, who lives in Suskechewan’s orthodox-blowing middle province, said his priority was “change”.
“I don’t agree with the liberal government and how they are running our country,” she told the AFP in Montreal, where she was going for a conference.
Julie Demers said that Trump’s dominance over the campaign came to a cost.
“I think it’s unfortunate that we only talked about American politics,” the 37 -year -old mother of two said, “It regrets that social equality was sidelined.”
Historical change?
If liberals win, it will mark one of the most dramatic changes in Canadian political history.
On 6 January, the day Trudeau announced that he would resign, the conservatives led more than 20 points to the liberals in most elections, and Pilevere looked at the track to be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
But instead of Trudeau, Carney jointly changed the race with a nationwide discomfort about Trump.
Poly Broadcaster CBC’s pole aggregator on Sunday reduced the national support of Liberals to 42.8 percent, with conservatives at 38.8 percent.
With US elections, the national polling number cannot predict the result.
The performance of two small parties-in the Vamingthi New Democratic Party (NDP) and separatist block Quebeccis-back votes, may be decisive as a strong appearance by both parties, curbing a liberal seat long.
About 29 million people out of 41 million Canadian people are eligible to vote, largely in the G7 country which is spread over the six -time regions. A record 7.3 million people put up advanced ballots.
Canadians will elect 343 members of Parliament, which means 172 seats are required for majority. Liberals won a majority in 2015 but ruled with minority since 2019.
