Posted on 04/29/2025 10:05:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The race was called by 10:15 Eastern Time Zone.
Poilievre was up by 50 points in the Polymarket polling back in February.
Then he couldn’t keep his mouth shut about Trump.
What a dummy.
The GREATEST comeback of all time? In Jan: Polymarket odds of the Liberals winning were 3%
CTV just projected Mark Carney's Liberals to win- thanks to Trump's attacks on Canada's economy,sovereignty &suggestions it should become 51st state which spurred a surge in nationalism pic.twitter.com/Ver8c796ir
— Joumanna Nasr Bercetche (@JoumannaTV) April 29, 2025
Canada called the election within hours of the first polls closing.
Canada used paper ballots and one day voting.
For the record, in the closing days of the campaign, Carney promised to crack down on free speech.
Apparently, the people loved it.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney promises to crack down on free speech if he is elected prime Minister
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to crack down on free speech in his latest campaign stop in Hamilton, Canada.
He's actually running on banning speech in his country in the final weeks of the election. The 2025 Canadian federal election is scheduled for April 28.
Mark Carney is taking over where Marxist Justin Trudeau left off.
Mark Carney: "There are many serious issues that we’re dealing with. One of them is the sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories — this sort of pollution online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States... The more serious thing is when it affects how people behave in our society. When Canadians are threatened going to their community centers or their places of worship or their school or, God forbid, when it affects our children. My government, if elected will be taking action."
PM Mark Carney uses a heckler's interruption to justify online censorship, blaming the US for a "sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, conspiracy theories," describing it as a "pollution" that "washes over our borders." pic.twitter.com/TV2auh3jTt
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) April 11, 2025
Canadians are about to lose their right to free speech, and they don't seem worried one bit.
Obviously, Carney is no better than his mentor, Trudeau.
Good luck Canada, wish you well. It’s unfortunate that you didn’t learn from Fidel’s bastard son.
More winning by Trump.
The left just won the national election in Canada. The Conservatives were way ahead in the polls until Trump starting talking about making Canada into our 51st state.
The leftist candidate then ran against Trump using this quote:
“America wants our land, our resources, our water. These are not idle threats. Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never happen.”
And the polls quickly reversed and the leftist won the premiership.
Trump needs to stop talking out his azz and saying anything and everything the instant he thinks of it. Annexing Canada was not an issue until Trump created it out of thin air.
Trump is often his own worse enemy.
To understand President Trump’s position on Canada, you have to go back to the 2016 election and President Trump’s position on the NAFTA renegotiation. If you did not follow the subsequent USMCA process, this might be the ah-ha moment you need to understand Trump’s strategy.
During the 2016 election President Trump repeatedly said he wanted to renegotiate NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Both Canada and Mexico were reluctant to open the trade agreement to revision, but ultimately President Trump had the authority and support from an election victory to do exactly that.
In order to understand the issue, you must remember President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer each agreed the NAFTA agreement was fraught with problems and was best addressed by scrapping it and creating two seperate bilateral trade agreements. One between the USA and Mexico, and one between the USA and Canada.
In the decades that preceded the 2017 push to redo the trade pact, Canada had restructured their economy to:
(1) align with progressive climate change; and
(2) take advantage of the NAFTA loophole.
The Canadian government did not want to reengage in a new trade agreement.
Canada has deindustrialized much of their manufacturing base to support the ‘environmental’ aspirations of their progressive politicians. Instead, Canada became an importer of component goods where companies then assembled those imports into finished products to enter the U.S. market without tariffs. Working with Chinese manufacturing companies, Canada exploited the NAFTA loophole.
Justin Trudeau was strongly against renegotiating NAFTA, and stated he and Chrystia Freeland would not support reopening the trade agreement. President Trump didn’t care about the position of Canada and was going forward. Trudeau said he would not support it. Trump focused on the first bilateral trade agreement with Mexico.
When the U.S. and Mexico had agreed to terms of the new trade deal and 80% of the agreement was finished, representatives from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce informed Trudeau that his position was weak and if the U.S. and Mexico inked their deal, Canada would be shut out.
The U.S Chamber of Commerce was upset because they were kept out of all the details of the agreement between the U.S. and Mexico. In actuality the U.S CoC was effectively blocked from any participation.
When they went to talk to the Canadians the CoC was warning them about what was likely to happen. NAFTA would end, the U.S. and Mexico would have a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), and then Trump was likely to turn to Trudeau and say NAFTA is dead, now we need to negotiate a separate deal for U.S-Canada.
Trudeau was told a direct bilateral trade agreement between the U.S and Canada was the worst possible scenario for the Canadian government. Canada would lose access to the NAFTA loophole and Canada’s entire economy was no longer in a position to negotiate against the size of the USA. Trump would win every demand.
Following the warning, Trudeau went to visit Nancy Pelosi to find out if congress was likely to ratify a new bilateral trade agreement between the U.S and Mexico. Pelosi warned Trudeau there was enough political support for the NAFTA elimination from both parties. Yes, the bilateral trade agreement was likely to find support.
Realizing what was about to happen, Prime Minister Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland quickly changed approach and began to request discussions and meetings with USTR Robert Lighthizer. Keep in mind more than 80 to 90% of the agreement was already done by the U.S. and Mexico teams. Both President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President Trump were now openly talking about when it would be finalized and signed.
Nancy Pelosi stepped in to help Canada get back into the agreement by leveraging her Democrats. Trump agreed to let Canada engage, and Lighthizer agreed to hold discussions with Chrystia Freeland on a tri-lateral trade agreement that ultimately became the USMCA.
The key points to remember are: (1) Trump, Ross and Lighthizer would prefer two separate bilateral trade agreements because the U.S. import/export dynamic was entirely different between Mexico and Canada. And because of the loophole issue, (2) a five-year review was put into the finished USMCA trade agreement. The USMCA was signed on November 30, 2018, and came into effect on July 1, 2020.
TIMELINE: The USMCA is now up for review (2025) and renegotiation in 2026!
This timeline is the key to understanding where President Donald Trump stands today. The review and renegotiation is his goal.
President Trump said openly he was going to renegotiate the USMCA, leveraging border security (Mexico) and reciprocity (Canada) within it.
Following the 2024 presidential election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Mar-a-Lago and said if President Trump was to make the Canadian government face reciprocal tariffs, open the USMCA trade agreements to force reciprocity, and/or balance economic relations on non-tariff issues, then Canada would collapse upon itself economically and cease to exist.
In essence, Canada cannot survive as a free and independent north American nation, without receiving all the one-way benefits from the U.S. economy.
To wit, President Trump then said, if Canada cannot survive in a balanced rules environment, including putting together their own military and defenses (which it cannot), then Canada should become the 51st U.S state. It was following this meeting that President Trump started emphasizing this point and shocking everyone in the process.
However, what everyone missed was the strategy Trump began outlining when contrast against the USMCA review and renegotiation window.
Again, Trump doesn’t like the tri-lateral trade agreement. President Trump would rather have two separate bilateral agreements; one for Mexico and one for Canada. Multilateral trade agreements are difficult to manage and police.
How was President Trump going to get Canada to (a) willingly exit the USMCA; and (b) enter a bilateral trade agreement?
The answer was through trade and tariff provocations, while simultaneously hitting Canada with the shock and awe aspect of the 51st state.
The Canadian government and the Canadian people fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Trump’s position on the Canadian election outcome had nothing to do with geopolitical friendships and everything to do with America-First economics. When asked about the election in Canada President Trump said, “I don’t care. I think it’s easier to deal, actually, with a liberal and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care.”
By voting emotionally, the Canadian electorate have fallen into President Trump’s USMCA exit trap. Prime Minister Carney will make the exit much easier. Carney now becomes the target of increased punitive coercion until such a time as the USMCA review is begun, and Canada is forced to a position of renegotiation.
Trump never wanted Canada as a 51st state.
Trump always wanted a U.S-Canada bilateral trade agreement.
Mark Carney said the era of U.S-Canadian economic ties “are officially declared severed.”
Canada has willingly exited the USMCA trade agreement at the perfect time for President Trump.
Why do you think Mexico stayed quiet?
Can you see it now?
Carney will be a disaster for Canada. Probably even worse than Trudeau... and I didn’t think that possible. What is it with our neighbors to the north?
+1
It took Biden to change the US direction. This may be good in the long run.
What I don’t understand is why the Maritime Provinces support the Liberal Party. You would think they would be something like interior Maine, which is conservative.
Yep, they will hold no cards when deal time comes around.
Because they are all welfare cases sucking up money from the rest of Canada. The maritimes can’t support themselves.
Poilievre took a dive better than Sonny Liston.
“What is it with our neighbors to the north?”
Don’t forget, a bunch of them are descendants of people who left the new United States because they preferred George III...
Worse than Castro’s kid from what I’ve heard. Maybe some will decide becoming ‘51sters’ would be a good thing.
They missed their chance in the mid 90s.
If they could have shedd themselves of the frogs back then, nobody would be tslking of this.
That was a close referendum.
Sad.
I’ve never been to Canada and never will.
Notice how all campaign paraphernalia looks the same regardless of country.
Same generic logos, same tired empty slogans, same fonts.
It’s almost like it was all made at the same factory in China.
“Close the border, put up the same type of fence across all of it that we’re doing for the southern border”
The Canadian government might have to do that themselves to keep their most productive people from leaving.
I think we could have some type of resettlement program where US exports their leftists in exchange for hard working Canadian conservatives and entrepreneurs. That would be a better troll than Canada as 51st state.
Passports are already required.
Most of us in the west are far more right wing than the majority of Americans. Guess we will see how this plays out. I see balkanization coming.
Guess what kind of voting machines are used in Canada...
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