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(NewsNation) — Canadians volition beryllium heading to the polls to determine whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party stays successful power, oregon if Conservatives volition instrumentality the reins.
Monday's predetermination has been upended by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and repeated calls for Canada to go the 51st state of the U.S. Trump's comments person made for shaky relations betwixt the 2 nations successful caller months.
Trump took to the societal media level Truth Social Monday morning, wishing Canadians "good luck," and erstwhile again making a lawsuit for annexing the country.
Canada's Conservative Party campaigner Pierre Poilievre was seen arsenic a shoo-in to go the adjacent Prime Minister and bring backmost powerfulness to his enactment for the archetypal clip successful astir a decade. According to Reuters, the Conservative Party held a 20-point pb successful polls conscionable a fewer months ago.
Poilievre has campaigned with similar messages to Trump, adopting the slogan "Canada First," akin to the "America First" 1 Trump utilized passim his run and presidency.
However, the repeated threats from Trump person led to upset Canadians pivoting towards the Liberal Party's Mark Carney and bolstered the party's canvass numbers. Carney was sworn in aft erstwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down successful March.
Carney has antecedently said that the U.S. and Canada's narration for the past 40 years has changed due to the fact that of Trump's tariffs and "threats to our sovereignty," and asked voters to present a beardown mandate to woody with Trump.
