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In stunning comeback, Mark Carney’s Liberals win Canada’s federal election
Washington Post via MSN ^ | 04/28/2025 | Amanda Coletta

Posted on 04/28/2025 8:19:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals won a federal election Monday, the country’s public broadcaster, the CBC, projected, an extraordinary comeback that was fueled in part by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and attacks on Canada.

Just months ago, Carney’s party was headed for a potentially historic drubbing. It was not yet clear whether the Liberals would rule a minority or majority government as votes continued to be counted. This is the fourth consecutive Liberal government since 2015.

Amid the U.S. president’s trade war and threats to annex its northern neighbor, voters flocked to Carney — a political novice, who led the Bank of Canada during the global financial crisis and the Bank of England during Brexit. He pitched himself as a steady hand at a destabilizing time.

The vote, considered by many here to be the most consequential election of their lifetimes, was bookended by Trump’s menaces. During the first week of the campaign, he announced tariffs on foreign automobiles, prompting Canadian retaliation. On Monday morning, in a social media post, Trump wished “good luck” to Canadians and repeated his threat to make their country the 51st state.

The result represented a remarkable reversal in fortunes for the Liberals, who were all but written off when Justin Trudeau resigned as prime minister in January. They had trailed the Conservatives for more than a year. Pierre Poilievre, a sharp-tongued populist, was cruising to one of the largest majority governments in Canada’s history.

But Trudeau’s exit, Carney’s elevation as his replacement and Trump’s return flipped the script. By the time Carney called a snap election in March, the Conservatives had lost a 20-plus-point lead. Poilievre, who built his edge on the premise that Canada is “broken” thanks to Trudeau, struggled after his main foe was out of the picture..

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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 04/28/2025 8:19:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Some outstanding 4d chess, just like Georgia..


2 posted on 04/28/2025 8:19:55 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: SeekAndFind

They drank the Kool-Aid.


3 posted on 04/28/2025 8:20:07 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Canaduh is toast.


4 posted on 04/28/2025 8:21:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Put a fork in Canada, they’re done.


5 posted on 04/28/2025 8:21:36 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind

He should thank Trump.


6 posted on 04/28/2025 8:23:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s always a stunning catch-up win with liberals isn’t it?


7 posted on 04/28/2025 8:23:57 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: nickcarraway

Agree, the Conservatives should have wiped out the Liberals, but then Trump had to open his mouth.


8 posted on 04/28/2025 8:23:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Their vote fraud must be worse than ours


9 posted on 04/28/2025 8:24:40 PM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s your funeral Canada... Have at it.


10 posted on 04/28/2025 8:26:30 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need another wall.


11 posted on 04/28/2025 8:26:57 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Mr. K

Paper ballots, hand counted.

Every time the side you want to win doesn’t win, its not fraud. That narrative really gets tiresome after awhile.


12 posted on 04/28/2025 8:27:48 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Wayne07

He’s a stable genius! You be quiet, troll. Go back to DU. moose cheese sister viking kitties, IBTZ, uh, am I missing anything?


13 posted on 04/28/2025 8:29:10 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Now, we will have chinese military on our border.


14 posted on 04/28/2025 8:29:50 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Surrounded_too

Not really.

Currently 42.8 to 41.6%.

So a good chance of a minority government with ‘Bloc Quebec’. Ring the king makers.


15 posted on 04/28/2025 8:30:27 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: SeekAndFind
Pierre Poilievre came up with some snappy quotes on TV but he proved to be a lousy campaigner. Canada is most definitely not a good candidate for the 51st state - would simply be another California, and Quebec would add a third major language to complicate life.

Maybe if Alberta and Saskatchewan were interested in joining as states it might make sense.
16 posted on 04/28/2025 8:30:33 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal minority government. Way below expectation. Conservatives actually did better than expected.


17 posted on 04/28/2025 8:31:27 PM PDT by hotsteppa
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Now, we will have chinese military on our border.

That should be as unacceptable to us as the threat of NATO troops in Ukraine was to Putin.
18 posted on 04/28/2025 8:31:40 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Captainpaintball

hoser?


19 posted on 04/28/2025 8:31:41 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: dfwgator

That’s not why.


20 posted on 04/28/2025 8:33:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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