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The count has begun in the National Elections of Canada after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, urged voters to choose a leader who would make the country in state 51 of the United States as “was Meean to be.”
Trump’s comments on Monday morning followed a campaign that Hasbet shaped his attacks against the sovereignty of the country and his threats to hammer the US trade partner with tariffs.
“The United States can no longer subsidize Canada with the hundreds of billions of dollars a year that we have bone expenses in the past,” Trump published in Truth Social.
The surveys began to close in eastern Canada at night, with the national results expected later at night.
The president did not say who wanted to win the elections of Canada, but his comment will be well received by the Liberal Party of Mark Carney, which has made Canadian sovereignty and the opposition to Trump’s issues of his tone to voters.
An advisor from Carney described Trump’s publication about Truth Social, his social media platform, as a “gift.”
“The crisis in the United States does not stop at its borders,” said Carney in a final choice message. “But this is Canada, and we decided what happens here.”
Monday’s vote has been announced in Canada as a fundamental choice against Trump’s teasing, and will be observed throughout the West by the signs that a foreign leader who has been vocal to oppose Trump is electoral success.
The question of leadership, instead of the election of the party or internal policy, has dominated the contest between Prime Minister Mark Carly and conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, two men who offer very different paths for Canada.
“President Trump keeps out of our elections,” Poilievre published in X on Monday morning. “We will never be the state 51”.
While Carney has been based on his record as a central banker while focusing on the economic uncertainty created by Trump’s rate, Pailievre has concentrated on housing prices, crime and cost of living.
“My question for Canadians is simple: is Pierre Poilievre the person you want to sit on Donald Trump’s table?” Carney said in a demonstration on Saturday in King City, Ontario.
Pailievre has promoted an “common sense” agenda by binding Carney to the previous liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau, who led Canada for nine years before resigning in January.
“We cannot pay a fourth liberal term. We need a change,” Pailievre said in a demonstration in British Columbia on Saturday.
Trump’s aggressive comments about Canada and his tariffs imposed on one of the closest commercial partners have brought a wave of patriotism throughout the country and transformed the race.
Once a certain conservative victory under Poilievre has changed to an unpredictable contest, with Carney liberals winning a significant impulse in recent months, according to David Coletto, executive director of Abacus Polling.
“Initially focused on affordableness and a broad desire for change, this campaign has dramatically become a referendum about stability amid global uncertainty,” said Coletto.
Pailievre’s perceived similarity with Trump has been a responsibility, since many voters are large or “magic style” policies that influence Canada.
The final impulse of both sides was derailed by the death of 11 people in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada, on Saturday night, after a man drove car to a Filipina Street festival. The police have ruled out terrorism. Carney temporarily suspended his campaign and addressed Vancouver for a meeting with the Philippine community.
It is expected that the importance of this election, amplified by the marked contrast in leaders and the remarkable increase in the popularity of liberal parties, will result in a high participation of voters.
Elections of Canada, the government agency that supervises the vote, informed that a record of 7.3 million Canadians had already voted, an increase of 25 percent with respect to the previous elections in 2021.
This leaves another 21 million registered voters to cast a ballot on Monday.
In the center of the contest there is a battle for the marginal seats necessary to ensure the 172 cables required to form a majority government.
Both project 338 -channel and the survey tracker of Canadian transmission corporations, an aggregate of opinion surveys, show that the liberals feel comfortable winners.
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