In his victory speech following the federal election on Monday, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed concern that Donald Trump is attempting to weaken Canada to the point where the United States could assert control over the country.
The Liberal Party is anticipated to remain in power in Canada following their victory in Monday’s elections. However, it is uncertain whether they will form a minority or majority government.
During a speech delivered in Ottawa after securing his win, Carney directly targeted Trump, painting a grim picture of the future and stating that Canada must be prepared ‘for the worst’.
‘As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our water, our resources, our country… never,’ he promised.
Carney said these were not ‘idle threats,’ adding: ‘President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.’
‘That will never, ever happen. But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed,’ he said to applause.
Carney promised, still, to meet with Trump despite ‘a crisis that we did not create’ and promised to ‘win this trade war with America.’
‘When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economic and strategic relationship between two sovereign nations and it will be with full knowledge that we have many other options to build prosperity for all Canadians.’
However, he warned: ‘Our old relationship of integration with the U.S. is now over. These are tragedies but it’s also our new reality. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, we have to take care of each other.’
‘We will strengthen our relationship with reliable partners in Europe and Asia and elsewhere in the world and if the U.S. Doesn’t want to play a pivotal in the world economy, we will lead, not the Americans.’
Trump has yet to weigh in on the result. DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.
The Liberals completed a shocking comeback driven by anger toward Trump, though its too soon to say whether they will be forming a majority or minority government in Canada’s parliamentary system.
Canada’s system requires either a majority of 172 parliamentary seats or a coalition government between one of the two major parties – the Liberals and Conservatives – and one of a few smaller parties.
Prognosticators have said its too soon to tell if Carney’s Liberals will have more than 172 seats but they would be likely to form a coalition with the far left New Democrat Party.
As of 2 a.m. EDT, Liberals were leading in or won in 167 of 343 districts (up from 150 in the previous government), with Conservatives leading in 145.
Bloc Quebecois leads in 23 (down from 33), while the NDP leads in seven (down from 24) and the Green Party in one (unchanged), according to CBC.
It means that Carney will remain in charge of dealing with an American president in Trump who has openly gloated about making the neighbors to the north the ’51st state’ and calling his predecessor ‘Governor [Justin] Trudeau.’
The U.S. president trolled Canadians on election day by suggesting on social media that he was in fact on the ballot and repeating that Canada should become the 51st state, incorrectly claiming the U.S. subsidizes Canada.
‘It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!’ Trump wrote.
Trump reinserted also made mention of the election during a signing ceremony inside the Oval Office earlier Monday, saying Canada ‘would cease to exist as a country’ if the U.S. stopped buying its goods.
‘I have to be honest, as a state, it works great,’ said Trump, who previously threatened to make the country the 51st state through economic coercion.
Trump reiterated his claim that the U.S. doesn´t need anything from Canada – including autos and oil.
The Liberals looked headed for a crushing defeat until the American president started attacking Canada´s economy and threatening its sovereignty.
Trump´s actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the election narrative and win a fourth-straight term in power. Some have chosen to cancel U.S. vacations, refuse to buy American goods and possibly even vote early.
The opposition Conservative Party´s leader, Pierre Poilievre, hoped to make the election a referendum on former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose.
But Trump attacked, Trudeau resigned and Carney, a two-time central banker, became the Liberal Party´s leader and prime minister.
The president bragged about his effect on the Canadian election and how he’d hurt Poilievre in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday.
