- PM to bring parliamentary elections in April instead of October.
- “It is impossible at this level to make predictions” says experts.
- Domestic issues such as living costs dominate immigration elections.
Ottawa: Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce the Snap election today (Sunday), demanding a strong mandate as his country fights the United States President Donald Trump with the Business War and Annaxation threats.
The former central banker was selected by the Centrist Liberal Party to convert Sentin Trudeau as Prime Minister, but he never faced widespread Canadian voters.
It would change on 28 April, if, as expected, Carney announced that he was bringing forward parliamentary elections for several months from October.
Government sources told AFP He will announce the decision at 12:30 pm local time in a 41 million of Canada’s speech.
In power for a decade, the liberal government had slipped into deep unpopularity, but Carney hoped to ride a wave of Canadian patriotism for a new majority – thanks to the dangers of Trump.
Trump has repeatedly rejected his northern neighbor as artificial its sovereignty and boundaries, and urged it to join the United States as the 51st state.
Inauspicious comments have been made with Trump’s trade war, tariffs have been imposed on imports from Canada that can ruin their economy.
“At this time of the crisis, the government needs a strong and clear mandate,” Carney on Thursday told supporters in a speech in the western city of Edmonton.
Favorite
Domestic issues such as living and immigration costs usually dominate Canadian elections, but this year is at the top of a major theme list: who can best handle Trump.
The President’s open enmity towards his northern neighbor – a NATO colleague and historically one of his country’s closest partners – has increased the Canadian political scenario.
Trudeau, who had been in power since 2015, was deeply unpopular, when he announced that he was stepping down, the conservatives of Pierrevv was seen as a favorite a few weeks ago as a favorite.
But the pole has become brilliantly narrowed in favor of Carney as he has handled the liberals, and now analysts are very close to call the trump-overshad race.
Felix Mathew, a political scientist at Vinypeg University, told AFP, “Many consider it an existential election, unprecedented.”
“It is impossible at this stage to make predictions, but this voter will have a closely seen election with voting that should be when it grows.”
45 -year -old Poidev is a career politician when he was only 25 years old. An experienced hard-talked campaigner, sometimes tagged as a liberal and populist.
60 -year -old Carney has spent his career outside electoral politics. He spent more than a decade in Goldman Sachs and led the Central Bank of Canada, then Bank of England.
If the Canadian people want to give a big mandate to the big two to strengthen their hand against Trump, small opposition parties may be damaged.
And as an American leader, he does not talk about not taking care, carrying forward with a plan to further strengthen tariffs against Canada and other major trading partners on 2 April.
“I don’t care who wins there,” said Trump this week.
“But a while ago, before I joined and changed the election completely, which I do not care (…) The conservative was moving beyond 35 points.”
