Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party had political control in Canada from 2013 on. Trudeau stepped down as PM in March, leaving his Liberal successor Mark Carney in charge as PM during a particularly chaotic time in Canadian politics. The chaos was mostly due to the meth lab in Canada’s basement, aka the United States of America. Donald Trump has been issuing provocative and dangerous threats to Canada and Canadian sovereignty, threatening to invade Canada and create a bonkers trade war with Canada and on and on. Trump’s threats completely changed the scope of Canada’s general election. Last year, Trudeau announced his resignation partly because Canada’s Conservative Party was making such headway politically, and it felt inevitable that the Conservatives would regain the majority in the general election. That isn’t what happened though, because Trump created the equation where a vote for Canada’s Conservatives was a vote for Trumpism. Mark Carney won a new term, and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre lost his parliamentary seat.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada won a new term on Monday night, the national broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada projected, a remarkable turnaround for his Liberal Party, owed in large part to President Trump’s aggressive stance toward the country.
Still, much remained in play in the election. The Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poilievre, conceded the election, but after 1 a.m. Eastern time it was still unclear whether he had retained the seat in Parliament he has held for 20 years. Mr. Carney made an acceptance speech, but it was still not known whether he would be forming a majority or minority government.
The voters’ decision sealed a stunning reversal for the Liberal Party that just months ago seemed all but certain to lose to the Conservative Party. Mr. Carney has been prime minister since March, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down. The centerpiece of Mr. Carney’s acceptance speech early Tuesday morning was Canada’s response to Mr. Trump’s policies.
“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,” he said. “President Trump is trying to break us so he can own us. That will never happen.” He warned Canadians that the road ahead would be difficult and might require sacrifices.
When Mr. Poilievre conceded early Tuesday morning, he said that he would remain as party leader. The Conservative caucus can remove him from the post, which it did to the party’s two previous leaders after it failed to form the government.
The election has been remarkable in many ways, with candidates and many voters describing it as the most important vote in their lifetimes.
The Times confirmed this morning that Poilievre has lost his seat. Poilievre also watched as the Conservatives’ double-digit polling lead evaporated in the past two months, as Trump bizarrely and offensively waged an economic war against Canada. I’m so glad that Canadians were prepared to do what Americans were too stupid to do: go to the polls to stand up to an unhinged fascist and the worst case of “ugly Americanism” ever. Well done, Canada!
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Hallelujah!
Hoping for the same vibe for us here in Australia this weekend.
Except our liberals are called Labor and the Liberals are the conservatives.
PS: Yay Canada!!!
GO AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
From 🇨🇦
Poilievre lost his own seat in his own riding 😂
You got this Australia! So proud to be Canadian today and every day!
Congratulations Canada!! So happy for you!!
Well, the votes were almost equal for both parties. To be fair, Canada is huge! No, you can’t drive from Toronto to Vancouver in a day. Where I work, farming does not pay the bills, female customers were decidedly against PP and his party for their history of anti-woman stance. PP had the audacity to say in his speech last night that he’d still stand up for single mothers. The man has voted against 10 dollar a day daycare repeatedly. This latest incarnation of the conservatives need to read Brian Mulroney’s playbook. He wasn’t perfect but then he was a progressive conservative not a regressive conservative. We are very happy that Carney won even if it will be a minority government. Everyone will need to work together to get through the Cheeto years. Elbows out!
The Liberals were elected in 2015, not 2013.
I was SO happy when I saw this!
Thank you Canada.
You did what a large swath of America voters refused to do in November. It gives me hope for the rest of the world, as do Trump’s sinking poll numbers and the large numbers of people taking to the streets across America to protest MAGA /Musk / fascism and springing into action to push back on the admin’s unconstitutional actions.
As a Canadian – WOO-HOO! I am so thrilled that Polievre lost his seat. Bye-bye Peter! Now, take your pension and GTFO.
So with you, kellybean! Even my own constituency turned from blue to red after many years! Finally!
Unfortunately, I live in rural Ontario, so it’s very conservative. I grew up in Toronto and have always voted Liberal. I may live in a blue riding but my heart is red.
I’m in Alberta, but live in the one Liberal Edmonton riding, which is a lovely surprise as we were worried about vote splitting.
PP losing his seat, though, that’s a chef’s kiss and I’m so happy about it!
LittlePenguin, I’m in YEG too, sadly not in your riding :(. Tried to get rid of our incumbent but didn’t quite get there. Yay for you for getting us a Liberal Seat!!
I am so happy he not only lost but lost his seat as well. He’s unfit. Unfortunately we turned blue in my riding that has always been NDP I’m sure Angus is upset.
Charlie is so great, and it’s sad not to see him in the commons but loving his new chapter in life–and that the Grevious Angels are back!
There was SO much vote-splitting on the Island — Tories won seats by only winning 30-ish per cent of the vote!
Canadian here so glad Poliievre, a divisive trump wannabe, was rejected and ejected from his own long held riding. This was a rejection of him and his bs.
I found it very troubling that he went on this anti woke campaign especially since he has q non verbal daughter.
West Coaster here, and I honestly held my breath all night and never once checked the stats in case I jinxed them. Today I can breathe that my fellow Canadians did not lose their gd minds. Carney has statesmanship can hold Trump and his orange flapping mouth in check.
His actual name is Jeff!
OMG you’re right. Wow. I did not know that!
I am so relieved but this win feels like a loss. It looks like it will be a minority Liberal goverment. The Conservatives did much better than they did in 2021, actually taking seats away from Liberals including where I live. It’s hard to accept that half my neighbours voted for hate and division.
Agreed was hoping for a Lib majority although the NDP and the BQ won’t be in a rush for another election anytime soon. But considering it was looking like a conservative majority a few months ago I’m so happy that Pierre is not our PM this morning.
Singh losing his seat, and now hopefully stepping down as NDP leader is the icing on the cake! “Never trust a liberal” indeed. He and PP can gtfo and ride off into the sunset together.
I would have preferred a majority as well, because at least stuff would have gotten done more easily. Hopefully the Bloc and the NDP will be willing to play ball with the Liberals again so that we at least don’t have four years of watching them all spinning their wheels.
I would have liked a majority too, but I also think it’s actually not that bad that BQ was strong yesterday. The people who voted BQ are the people who also vote PQ party on a provincial level. I think Quebec is naturally more liberal than conservative, when they are not Quebec nationalists – so liberals in disguise can we say? as this also translates as that Quebecers want a strong Quebec in a united Canada.
The NDP have the seats to give Carney the majority and they lean left so that remains a good thing.
The Tories need to dump the American style right wing stuff. PP was bad with women and seeing that he was fighting with Doug Ford shows you they were just bad overall to run anything.
Yeah, same but Carney brought the liberals back from a 25-point deficit and so far has 168 seats so it’s a strongish minority. He can partner with the Bloc and the NDP who won their seats to pass stuff.
(Am I hoping for a couple more seats after Elections Canada counts in the mail-in votes from Canadians abroad, yes, but am not hopeful).
PP will be FINE if he doesn’t go the byelection route (and I hate it). He has his multimillion-dollar pension and he can go work for Harper’s organization.
I would like PP out of Canadian politics altogether.
@ JazzHands, there are still ten or so seats that are leading for the CPC, Bloc and NDP that are too close to call, with special ballots to be counted and in the case of one BC seat, two more polls to count. So more seats could flip. They need 5 (4 for majority and one for speaker).
Actually the CBC is not calling it yet — there are thousands of votes yet to be counted in 10 seats with, in some cases, only double-digit differences! It may well be a majority yet!
A couple edits – Trudeau’s Liberals were first elected in 2015, and he stepped down in January this year, not last year (it only feels like it was last year).
I’m disappointed it’s a minority. Usually I don’t mind those, but now more than ever we need a government party that doesn’t have to be continually bowing to pressure to save their skin.
But PP lost his seat, and that’s pretty good consolation, though the arrogant twerp is saying he’ll hang on as leader. Of course he is.
Is he really? The party will oust him. There is no way he is staying on as leader. What a tool!
There are still votes to be counted, enough to still give a majority. A minority has not been 100% confirmed.
He lost his seat but he’ll likely find an MP who will be willing to give theirs up so he can get back in the House, unfortunately. I like to think that Jenni Byrne set PP up to fail. For those not in the know, Byrne is PP’s top advisor…and also his ex-girlfriend. :p
I’m disappointed that my riding went blue, as I live in a mostly non-white, immigrant heavy area. That so many people who would have been harmed by a Conservative government voted for PP is bleak, but I guess we saw similar trends in the US. A lot of young, marginalized people are so fed up with the neoliberal status quo that they’ll vote against their own interests.
Carney’s got his work cut out for him. He’s a pragmatist and knows his economics, so I hope he’ll be able to win over a lot of the young people who voted blue out of frustration with the previous liberal government.
For a little bit, we can breathe a sigh of relief.
Byrne was behind the barbaric cultural practices hotline that lost the election for Harper in 2015 and she spent time fighting with Doug Ford and Tim Houston, the Tory premiers. She can take her MAGA hat and go back to lobbying for Loblaws.
I think so many people were swayed by affordability. They may not have the longer view to American influence.
He’ll soon be a liability as a leader, with no voice in Parliament. He’ll try to stay on, but I think his grip on the party will loosen. And his top down style of leadership won’t work long term without a parliamentary seat! Thank God!
Trudeau’s Liberals won a majority, defeating the cons, in 2015.
Slight quibble with the PM’s wording. America doesn’t want Canada’s land, resources, and water. Recent polls are pretty clear on this point. This is the Mad King’s fever dream.
Once the undisputed leader of the free world, the US is now the cautionary tale of the free world. Congratulations, Canada!
The US ABSOLUTELY without question is after our land base and critical minerals aka natural resources!
Please don’t conflate the American people with the Mad King. Too many voted for him but two thirds did not.
40 % of us eligible voters didn’t show up, brassy rebel. Us voters allowed and enabled the dumpster fire to win.
I was speaking to a co-worker who is educated and smart in some ways, but a libertarian, Thump supporter adjacent tax-cut loving dope in others.
His understanding of Trump’s Mad King behavior towards Canada is that it’s all noise and posturing to cover that the 2 countries are working out a deal for 0 tariffs, limited trade or border restrictions, shared passports and currency (the US dollar of course) that will make everything great. He saw a talking head who knows a guy explaining it all on some tv business show.
Sure, m a y b e? (More like sure, Jan). But it sounded incredibly far fetched even before the election and struck me as another example of the “Trump’s a brilliant showman distracting the masses while he’s secretly playing 5 dimensional chess and will make things glorious in the end” nonsense people use as an excuse to support a malicious chaotic destructive lunatic. Buying him time to break things and harm more people.
The mad king represents America, so Carney is correct.
Trump is 100% after our resources.
Until the orange king is removed from office, his ramblings have to be taken seriously. This is how the world views him and Americans need to understand this. He is not a joke and too many Americans didn’t make sure to stop him from getting power again.
He has access to the military and nuclear codes. It is only wishful thinking that the military would ignore any order to invade. That’s not how a serious country works and the U.S. stopped being serious when they elected a man who tried to storm the capital and reverse the 2020 elections.
@ Nic919, yeah I think even enlighted Americans are unaware of how their country and citizens are perceived globally.
Well said.
O Canada! 🇨🇦
Reading about the Liberals winning and pulverizing a 25% Conservative lead in the polls was such great news to wake up to here in Europe.
Good thing the Canadians consigned the Maple MAGA straight to the dustbin of history. Now it no longer matters that Poilievre never bothered with getting his security clearance. He won’t need it.
Still wondering though if it will ever come out *how* exactly PP was compromised that he didn’t want to trigger the process of getting that security clearance.
Still missing the former guy, that tall ray of sunshine, former Prime Minister Disney Prince. Even if Mark Carney is much better qualified than JT ever was and more charismatic than I initially thought.
Now I want Canada and the eu to seal the deal and make Canada a member of the eu.
@ Nanea, I think Maple Maga isn’t gone entirely. Jeff “Pierre” Poilievre isn’t resigning as party leader. But the CON boys are fighting amongst themselves now so let’s see how that goes. I too loved our Disney Prince JT. But Carney is so charming, funny and slyly sexy. (Some women called back to “F*ck Carney” protesters at a rally–“yes, please!”).
My favourite meme is the one with 4 pictures, Harper, Scheer, O’Toole and Poiliever. The first 3 have x’s through them and say gone. The last is Poilievre and says next. The Conservatives tend to boot anyone who loses. I have hopes that Poilievre is finished and he can take his mail order bride with him.
Mail ordered bride? Please educate yourself. She is an inmigrant like many of us in this country. Stop thinking this is the US and Melania Trump. Anaida immigrated as a child with her parents and became a Canadian. She is trilingual and has a University degree. Just like many of other inmigrants like me. But it seems that bothers some people.
This is what I’m talking about when I say the level of hate speech that Trump and his followers instigated in this country. It used to be nice and welcoming. I’m not that sure about it after 15 years here so I’m glad to be moving overseas in some months. I want my children to grow up more rounded and with a head on their shoulders.
Educate yourself on her family history. She stated she was an immigrant until there came the anti-immigrant attitude. She then said she was a refugee. Her uncle is a known criminal in Canada illegally. This is not hate speech but public facts and public information.
This is a good result though it is still unclear that the liberals will get the majority that they need to govern with a bit of breathing room. Carney is a brilliant man although he is not the most gifted politician he is the right man for the moment.
I’m so proud of Canadians, in particular, progressive ones who voted for the Liberals over other parties that might have been their preferred choice because they understood the threat. I live in a Toronto riding that the NDP has always done really well in. They finished as a runner up last time, losing by less that 600 votes. This time, the Liberals are in the lead by over 20 000 votes last time i checked.
Um, also as a petty human being, I also loved that Pierre lost his seat. I absolutely donated to Bruce Fanjoy who was running against him in Carleton. You love to see it!
Agreed, so glad to see PP gone. In my riding which has always been very strongly NDP, the Liberal won last night. A very young, inexperienced man which I was disappointed about but willing to give him a chance. Our NDP guy has worked so hard and done so much good for us, he’ll still be around. Rumours that he may run for the leadership but we shall see.
I think the fear of a Con government pushed people in my area to go Liberal. So happy that hate, division and ugliness lost last night. I’m not a Liberal voter but I do like Mark Carney and feel safer with him at the helm than any of our other choices.
Happy for our Canadian neighbors! Glad you guys did not join us in Hell!
God I’m jealous.
An elected conservative MP will likely give his seat/electoral district to Poilievre. We are sadly not done with him.
Oh absolutely but the embarrassment and the notion that riding that knew him best after 20 years wouldn’t give him a mandate.
PP attacked Doug Ford and Tim Houston, the knives are out for PP.
I’m so happy for our Canadian friends!
What a stressful night it was, watching the results. Polievre is a hate-monger with no substance, just catch phrases, and I hope the conservatives can take a minute to find a better leader. In the meantime, Carney, even with a minority government, can show everyone if he’s up to the job of battling Trump. My gut says he is.
Seriously, if you want a laugh seek out the supercut of PP’s talking points about flies, bees and honey. I couldn’t find it on a quick look but my lord, he’s such a twit.
Oh Canada! The pride and relief I feel for you and as a friendly neighbor cannot be quantified. Mark Carney seems like a good man who loves his county and believes in democracy and human rights.
Well done.
Canadian here and I’m very happy that the Liberals won and that PP lost his seat. Makes me want to cackle with joy. I was afraid of a conservative govt so instead of voting NDP like I usually do I voted Lib. I live in a very conservative province so it didn’t make much of a difference but it still made me feel better.
Yes, @Northerngirl, the fact that my far-left wing son and his friends voted Liberal instead of NDP is a testament to the resolve Canadians had to protect the country.
I think a lot of NDP supporters threw their vote behind Carney to avoid splitting the vote. I feel bad for the NDP though.
I did the same thing, @Northerngirl and went to bed hoping and praying that I did not wake up to a PP government. I really thought I would.
Well thankfully being out in the west we heard it was a Liberal government pretty early in the evening but I did stay up later to see if it would be a majority or minority government.
I’m so proud of her, so happy that she chose her mental health and happiness. I’m so happy she found a partner who loves and respects her and lavishes her with love. After the Together: Our Community Cookbook with the Hubb Community I assumed she’d put out a cookbook — looking forward to it.
Wrong post — this is about the Liberal win in Canada.
Although, Meg’s former BFF, Jessica Mulroney, is fairly MAGA adjacent, as Ben Mulroney loudly endorsed Pierre Poilievre and is the Canadian Ben Shapiro. Super gross.
I’m so happy for you, Canada. Love, your next door American neighbor in Buffalo,
This is the best thing for Canada!! I’m thrilled!! Mark Carney has the economic and financial experience and smarts to outplay Trump. Trump Lite (Pierre Poilievre) losing his seat is golden. I’m sure he’s regretting tagging along on his coattails. Elbows up Canada!
President Macron congratulated PM Carney and says France will stand elbow to elbow with Canada.
YAY CANADA!!!!!
This is wonderful news!
I hope the US can learn from your strength of character and the good examples that your country and your voters are setting — especially for those of us mired in hellish-ness.
This American has really been heartened listening to Mark Carney stand up to Trump and Trump-ism. So happy for you Canada! I’m applauding your independence!
Bummer that it cost us the NDP. I hate having to vote strategically over and over again, what is the point of a parliamentary system if we’re all forced to choose between two parties, blah.
I’m bummed too, GrnieWnie. I’ve wanted to vote Green for years, but instead I do what is best for my country. (and my little family)
I wish every election didn’t feel existential and we could actually vote for the parties we preferred instead of holding our noses and voting for the party that *must* win so someone worse isn’t elected.
Go Canada 🇨🇦 you guys got it right. I’m also happy that PP lost his seat😎
I did the same thing, Northerngirl and went to bed hoping and praying that I did not wake up to a PP government. I really thought I would.
Congratulations, Canada. This gives me some hope.
I’m happy that he won the election but happy that his party got a minority Goverment. I’m not that happy that Trump interfered too much in Canadian politics and left us with a deeply divided country so f.. him.
🇨🇦Thank you for keeping your elbows up❣️
❤️ 🇨🇦. I cried when I read the results. This gives me hope that the rest of the world will stand strong against the tangerine terror and hope for my dark red state.
I don’t know about other parts of the country, but in western Canada Pollievre had become so toxic in the last couple weeks, that even the tv ads didn’t feature him. Instead, they used Boomer actors to promote the Conservatives’ warped take. I think the thing that sealed the deal for Pollievre was threatening to use the notwithstanding clause, the Canadian equivalent to an executive order except without any legal recourse. Even Orders in Council are subject to legal challenges, but not use of the notwithstanding clause, and that to me is very terrifying. Although my riding — again — elected the same lazy, useless, nepo baby Conservative, I’m relieved that we don’t have to live through a Conservative minority government only to hit the polls again in 10 months’ time, which is the longest a Conservative minority has ever lasted.
That boomer conservative golf commercial was TERRIBLE.
Thrilled for Canada ❤️ such good common sense and kind hearts. PS any room left for like minded Americans?
Come on over!! We welcome everyone as long as you’re cool!!
Congratulations! 🇨🇦 🍁
I assumed he would win because his first term was so short. Now, his real test will begin. Trudeau stepped aside to give the next lib leader a good start.