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Counting started in Canada’s national elections after US President Donald Trump earlier during the day urged voters to elect a chief who would make the country the 51st American state as “he had to be”.
Monday morning’s comments on Monday morning followed a campaign that was shaped by his attacks against the country’s sovereignty and his threats to hammer the American trading partner with prices.
“America can no longer subsidize Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars a year that we have passed in the past,” Trump poster on social truth.
The polls began to close in eastern Canada in the evening, the national results expected later at night.
The president did not say who he wanted to win the Canada elections, but his comment will be greeted by the Liberal Party of Mark Carney, who made Canadian sovereignty and opposition to the basic themes of his argument to voters.
A Carney advisor described Trump’s post on Truth Social, his social media platform, as a “gift”.
“The crisis in the United States does not stop at its borders,” said Carney in a final electoral message. “But it’s Canada – and we decide what’s going on here.”
Monday’s vote was billed in Canada as a pivotal choice against Trump’s taunts – and will be watched through the West for signs that a foreign leader opposed to Trump can succeed in succeeding.
The question of leadership, rather than the choice of party or internal policy, dominated the competition between Prime Minister Mark Carney and the conservative chief Pierre Hairy, two men offering very different paths for Canada.
“President Trump, stay outside our elections,” Hairyvre poster On X Monday morning. “We will never be the 51st state.”
While Carney has scored his file as a central banker while he focuses on the economic uncertainty created by Trump’s price, Hairyrere has focused on housing prices, crime and the cost of living.
“My question to Canadians is simple: is Pierre Hairyvre the person you want to attend through the Donald Trump table?” Carney said during a rally on Saturday in King City, Ontario.
Hairyvre promoted a “common sense” program by linking Carney to the previous Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who led Canada for nine years before resigning in January.
“We cannot afford a fourth liberal term. We need a change,” said Hairy during a rally in British Columbia on Saturday.
Trump’s aggressive comments on Canada and its prices imposed on one of the closest trade partners in the United States brought a wave of patriotism across the country and transformed the race.
According to David COLETTO, Director General of Abacus, another conservative victory under Hairy was moved to an “unpredictable competition”, the Liberals of Carney taking a significant momentum in recent months.
“Initially centered on affordability and a generalized desire for change, this campaign has evolved considerably towards a referendum on stability in the middle of global uncertainty,” said Coletto.
The perceived resemblance of Hairy with Trump has been a responsibility because many voters are wary of “Maga style” policies influencing Canada.
The last push of the two games was derailed by the death of 11 people in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada on Saturday evening, after a man led his car to a Filipinian street festival. Police excluded terrorism. Carney temporarily suspended his campaign and went to Vancouver for a meeting with the Philippine community.
The importance of this election, amplified by the striking contrast among leaders and the remarkable bankruptcy of the popularity of the Liberal Party, should lead to a high participation rate.
Elections Canada, the government agency that oversees the vote, said that a record of 7.3 million Canadians had already voted, an increase of 25% compared to the previous elections in 2021.
This leaves 21 other voters registered to vote on Monday.
In the center of the competition is a battle for the marginal seats necessary to guarantee the 172 constituencies necessary to form a majority government.
Both Project 338Canada And the ballot of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a total of opinion polls, show that the Liberals win comfortably.
