Canadians Elect Govt In Crucial Poll Today
Canadians have started polling in an election many consider of utmost importance.
They are polling to elect a new government
to confront the annexation threats from the United States and deal directly with President Donald Trump, whose trade war has defined the campaign.
The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, looked set to lose easily to the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre until the US president’s attacks on the country sparked a sudden reversal in poll forecasts.
Carney, 60, has never held an elected office and only replaced Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister last month.
He had a lucrative career as an investment banker before serving as the Governor of the Central Bank in both Canada and Britain.
Carney has argued that his global financial experience had prepared him to guide Canada’s response to Trump’s chaotic tariffs regime.
He has also promised to revitalise internal trade and expand Canada’s economic opportunities abroad to cut reliance on the United States, a country Carney says “we can no longer trust.”
