Canada election 2025: Mark Carney declares victory for Liberal party
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party is projected to win Canada's election and form the next government in what will be his party's fourth term in power.
As results continue to be announced, it is currently unclear whether Carney's party will win an outright majority of at least 172 seats or whether it will have to govern as a minority, relying on support from smaller parties.
Carney has only been Canada's PM for 46 days but in that time has managed to turn around his party's fortunes and recover from a position in which some pollsters placed his opponents at a 27-point lead.
His opponent, conservative Pierre Poilievre, had hoped the election would be a referendum on Carney's predecessor, Justin Trudeau, who had won three terms and resigned in January.
Playing on Canadian's growing resentment towards the US President's threats to make Canada the 51st state as well as the tariffs he placed on the country, Mark Carney was able to run on a popular anti-trump platform.
'The Americans want to break us so they can own us,' Carney said in the runup to election day. 'Those aren't just words. That's what's at risk.'
While campaigning, Carney vowed that every dollar the the government collects from counter-tariffs on U.S. goods will go toward Canadian workers who are adversely affected by the trade war.
He also said he plans to keep dental care in place, offer a middle-class tax cut, return immigration to sustainable levels and increase funding to Canada's public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Addressing supporters and conceding defeat, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre vowed to keep fighting for Canadians and their right to an affordable home on a safe street.
'We are cognizant of the fact that we didn't get over the finish line yet,' Poilievre told his supporters in Ottawa.
'We know that change is needed, but change is hard to come by. It takes time. It takes work. And that's why we have to learn the lessons of tonight — so that we can have an even better result the next time Canadians decide the future of the country.'
The US President's vocal support for Poilievre appeared to turn voters away from the Canadian conservative.
Reid Warren, a Toronto resident, said he voted Liberal because Poilievre 'sounds like mini-Trump to me.' And he said Trump's tariffs are a worry.
'Canadians coming together from, you know, all the shade being thrown from the States is great, but it's definitely created some turmoil, that's for sure,' he said.
Historian Robert Bothwell said Poilievre appealed to the 'same sense of grievance' as Trump, but that it ultimately worked against him.
'The Liberals ought to pay him,' Bothwell said, referring to the U.S. president. 'Trump talking is not good for the Conservatives.'
If Mark Carney's party don't win an outright majority they will have to rely on support from smaller parties to remain in power.
The Bloc Québécois, which looked set to finish third, is a separatist party from French-speaking Quebec that seeks independence from Canada.
Trudeau's Liberals relied on the New Democrats to remain in power for four years, but the progressive party faired poorly on Monday and its leader, Jagmeet Singh, said he was stepping down after eight years in charge.
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