Former banter Mark Carney requested a “strong mandate” on the part of voters to lead Canada in the middle of a trade war with the Trump government. However, he still seemed uncertain, when these lines were written, that the Canadians gave him the orders of a majority government.
Under the leadership of Mark Carney, the Liberal Party of Canada (PLC), however, managed to accomplish what seemed impossible barely four months ago: the population gave it a new mandate.
Consolation for the Bloc Québécois and the new Democratic Party (NPD): even if they have elected fewer deputies in 2021, these two opposition parties could claim “the balance of power”.
At 11:40 p.m., the PLC obtained 158 constituencies, compared to 148 for the Canada Conservative Party (CCP), 25 for the Bloc Québécois, 10 for the NPD and 1 for the Green Party of Canada. Political training must elect at least 172 deputies to enjoy a parliamentary majority.
The voters of the four Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ile-Prince-Edouard and Newfoundland and Labrador) had cooled the ardor of the liberal organizers by removing two districts in the party in relation to the 2021 election. “There is a vote of the Conservatives that we did not see in the polls”, conceded the liberal veteran Dominic Leblanc on Radio-Canada, Monday in the early evening.
Beauséjour’s re-elected deputy said from Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, having “confidence to seek a majority government”, although it is “more complicated” in his eyes.
The Conservative Chris of Entremont for his part was delighted to see the PCC “good” doing despite a start of “difficult” electoral campaign.
The Quebecers stored in greater numbers behind the PLC. The Liberals of Mark Carney obtained six more seats than those of Justin Trudeau almost four years ago. In addition, 39 % of Quebec voters joined the party in 2025, compared to 34 % in 2021.
Voters of the district Gaspésie-les Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Listuuguj, whose contours were redesigned by elections Canada, however preferred the blocist Alexis Deschênes to the Liberal Diane Lebouthillier.
Carney, Prime Minister of Trade
Mark Carney promised voters to resist and retaliates the attacks by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, against the economy and sovereignty of Canada.
Besides, Mr. Trump could not stop on Monday from wishing “good luck to the great people of Canada”, which reminded more of one voter his desire to see the country become the “51e State of the United States or its contestation of the Canadian-American border route.
After a career that led him to the head of the Bank of Canada (2008-2013) and the Bank of England (2013-2020), the new politician Mark Carney said repeatedly to “how to manage a crisis” and be “ready to direct”. “It is time to come together, build a strong economy and defend Canada,” he said and repeated, inviting voters to “lift their elbows” with him from day 1 to day 36 of the electoral campaign.
Uncertain future for Pierre Hairyvre
Pierre Poilievre, who lost his two main attack targets – Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax – during the winter, managed to attract crowds to his events during the campaign, but failed to harvest enough votes well distributed in a plurality of constituencies during the election.
Elected head of the CCP in September 2022, Pierre Poilievre proposed to “bring change so that Canadians can afford food, and houses, and live in a safe street”.
He saw the support for the CPC bend, going from 47 % in January (light) to less than 42 % Monday evening when these lines were written.
The shattering resignation of the Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, a few hours before his deposit Economic statement of the fall last December, which precipitated the departure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had changed everything for the CCP.
The appeal launched by Yves-François Blanchet to Quebec voters to “obstruct a too strong mandate” of the PLC by putting itself behind the Bloc Québécois was ignored by some. At 11:40 p.m., the independence party was in the process of electing 23 deputies, 9 less than in 2021 (32).
The Bloc Québécois could have the “balance of power”. He proposes to be a “partner […] reasonable “of Canada throughout the trade war with the United States provided that the specificity of Quebec-its culture, its language, its values, its secularism … and its supply management-is respected in this” collage that is Canada “. “If he is being built by denying the identity of its regions and Quebec, Canada can only be an artificial country,” he said in the last days. “We have the right to be different. »»
Yves-François Blanchet, who directed the troops of the Bloc Québécois for the third federal elections in a row, proposed to the next Prime Minister to convene the other party leaders in the House of Commons in order to discuss the Plan of Canada to win the trade war launched by the United States.
Failing to have “the balance of power”, the electoral campaign will have at least allowed Mr. Blanchet to obtain the mobile phone number of Prime Minister Mark Carney.
