How Trump’s taunts helped Canada’s flailing Liberals to a fourth-term election win
Canada’s 2025 federal election will be remembered as a game-changer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney pulled off a dramatic reversal of political fortunes after convincing voters he was the best candidate to fight annexation threats from United States President Donald Trump.
“We are over the shock of the American betrayal; we have to take care of each other,” he told cheering supporters in his victory speech in Ottawa.
“Together we will build a Canada worthy of our values. Canada strong, Canada free, Canada forever, vive le Canada!”
Canadians gave the Liberals their fourth mandate since 2015, although the race against the Conservatives was much closer than polls predicted.
Nonetheless, only four months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had a 25-point lead in public opinion polls and a fairly secure path to victory.
Yet Poilievre’s lead soon vanished due to shifting voter sentiments defined less by the official campaign period and more by the months that preceded it. Justin Trudeau’s early January resignation announcement and Carney’s confirmation that he was officially in the Liberal leadership race dramatically changed the political landscape.
Within a matter of weeks, Liberal support surged when Carney became party leader and Trump continued to make threats about Canada becoming a 51st American state – and to levy punishing on-again, off-again tariffs against the country.
The party went...
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