Canada’s April 28 federal election was dominated by Trump’s global trade war and his vow to use “economic force” to transform Canada into America’s 51st state.
After a campaign in which all the parties trumpeted bellicose Canadian nationalism, the Liberals, under their recently-minted leader, the former central banker and blue-chip corporate executive Mark Carney, were able to retain power.
They did so by riding on a wave of popular hostility to the fascist would-be dictator Trump.
Prior to Trump’s barrage of trade war measures and annexation threats and the forced resignation of Justin Trudeau as prime minister in early January, the Liberal government was a dead man walking. For well over a year, opinion polls had indicated that the Conservatives under their far-right leader, Pierre Poilievre, would romp to power in the coming election.