WEBDESK: The Canada elections of 2025 brought significant change, with Mark Carney’s Liberal Party emerging victorious over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. This election, held on April 28, 2025, was largely shaped by tensions between Canada and the United States, under President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump’s controversial policies, including trade wars and remarks about annexing Canada, spurred a shift in the Canada elections priorities, making sovereignty and economic independence central issues.
In a surprising turn of events, Mark Carney, the former central bank governor in both Canada and Britain, led his party to victory in the Canada elections. His campaign emphasized national resilience and a break from excessive reliance on the U.S. economy. Carney, known for his strong leadership during previous financial crises, presented a plan for safeguarding Canadian interests, focusing on economic autonomy and global competitiveness.
He has also promised to revitalize 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.”
The United States under Trump “wants to break us, so they can own us,” he has warned repeatedly through the campaign.
“We don’t need chaos, we need calm. We don’t need anger, we need an adult,” Carney said in the campaign’s closing days.
Poilievre, a 45-year-old career politician, has tried to keep the focus on domestic concerns that made Trudeau deeply unpopular toward the end of his decade in power, especially soaring living costs.
The Tory leader has argued Mark Carney would bring a continuation of what he calls “the lost Liberal decade,” arguing that only a new Conservative government can take action against crime, housing shortages and other non-Trump issues Canadians rank as priorities.
“You cannot handle another four years of this,” he said over the weekend.
Poilievre has critiqued Trump, but insisted ten years of poor Liberal governance had left Canada vulnerable to a newly hostile United States.
Voter turnout was the highest in years, with over 7.3 million early ballots cast, a 25% increase from the previous election. The public’s concerns about national security and sovereignty under Trump’s administration resonated throughout the election campaign, helping Carney’s Liberal Party secure a win.
