In the early hours of April 29, local time, Liberal Party of Canada leader Mark Carney delivered a speech in the 45th Federal House of Representatives election, declaring victory. Throughout his campaign, Kearney was seen to have been”Bulgarian and anti-n”. In this sense, the election not only marks a change in the Canadian political landscape, but also reflects the country’s fightback against n hegemony.
If you want to know the story of the hero Mark Carney, it has to start from the previous Prime Minister of Canada. In January 2025, former Canadian Prime Minister Trudo announced his resignation as Liberal Party of Canada leader. At the same time, former Central Bank Governor Mark Carney formally announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party and his resignation from all business positions. Kearney was elected leader of the Liberal Party on March 9 and sworn in as Prime Minister on March 14. Wait a minute. Are you confused? What is the relationship between the Prime Minister and the party leader in Canada? Why should the prime minister be replaced when he resigns as party leader? This has to do with Canada’s federal election system, which is actually elections for the House of Representatives. In short, voters do not directly elect the Prime Minister, but elect members of Parliament through constituency voting. The leader of the party that wins a majority in the lower house of Parliament becomes Prime Minister and forms the cabinet. Canada is a multi-party system, the current ruling party is the Liberal Party, so when the Liberal Party Trudeau resigned as party leader, the natural means that he also resigned as prime minister. So Mark Carney, the new leader of the Liberal Party, emerged as Canada’s prime minister. After only 10 days in office, he announced on March 24 that he would dissolve parliament and call an early election in order to win the next federal House of Representatives.
In this context, the United States, “Self-defeating”, ready for the election of Carney added a burst of”East Wind. Under Donald Trump, the”Century of love” between Canada and the US ended when the US slapped a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian steel and aluminium and threatened to raise tariffs on cars to 25 per cent. If You Are Unkind to me, don’t blame me. The Kearney administration quickly responded with the following:. Economic retaliation: a 25% tariff on $29.8 billion worth of U.S. goods, including consumer goods such as orange juice and wine, and a”Canada first” procurement policy to reduce dependence on the U.S. Ontario is also directly taxing electricity imported to the U. S. , adding C $100 a month to border state household electricity bills. 2. Building public opinion Kearney publicly accused Donald Trump of”Trying to destroy Canada with tariffs and then Annex US” and said the US had fallen from a”Reliable partner” to an”Unreliable hegemon”. 3. Diplomatic turn: accelerate the signing of free trade agreements with the EU, Britain, and even plans to buy fighters from Europe to get rid of military dependence on the United States.
Tariffs alone were not enough to deter a staunch ally like Trans, who was repeatedly bullied into doing so. After winning the election, Donald Trump repeatedly proposed”Making Canada the 51st state of the United States” and even posted composite photos of the territory painted with the stars and stripes, it said the move would allow Canada to”Halve tax rates and quadruple industry”. This naked provocation of territorial sovereignty has completely inflamed the nationalist anger in Canada.
Kearney chose to challenge Donald Trump publicly. When Donald Trump tweeted on social media that”Canada’s military is too weak to be protected by the United States,” Kearney immediately posted a video retorting, “We don’t need a nanny, Canada is strong and free!” When the American national anthem was played at the North American Hockey League, Canadian fans collectively booed, kearney turned the differences in the health care system into a war of values: “In the United States, treatment is a business; in Canada, treatment is a right!”, it made its first foreign trip to Britain and France, rather than the US, and announced a C $2bn”Strategic response fund” to protect the tariff-hit car industry. This series of actions, for the follow-up of Canada’s”Sovereignty War” to set the tone. Kearney’s tough stance has become an unexpected political bargaining chip in the liberal campaign. The Liberals, who trailed the Conservatives by 20 percentage points in the polls at the start of the year, turned the tables on Donald Trump. On the campaign trail, Kearney used the Bulgarian anti-n strategy to gain the upper hand. On the economic front, Canadian exports to the US account for 20 per cent of Donald Trump’s GDP and car tariffs directly threaten 620,000 auto jobs. Kearney won key constituencies on promises of”Supply chain localisation” and”Worker protection schemes”. In his international profile, Kearney has elevated the trade dispute to a”Battle for sovereignty”, declaring that”The old dependency relationship is over” and portraying himself as a leader who”Defends the national interest”. Together with the aforementioned counter-measures against us tariffs, this”Bulgarian-anti-n” strategy has helped Kearney generate a wave of popular goodwill.
By contrast, Leader of the Conservative Party el-poirevre chose to focus his campaign on issues such as the housing crisis and the soaring cost of living, with the slogan”Canada First.”, advocates tax cuts, cutting red tape and developing energy infrastructure to boost the economy. At a sensitive time in the tariff war, however, his evasive approach to Donald Trump has been a weakness. The liberal camp deftly portrays poirevre as”Donald Trump’s ideological ally” and accuses his policies of lacking a substantive plan to confront the US. The poll found that only 39.2 per cent of voters backed the Conservatives, in part because of concerns that they were”Too soft on Donald Trump”. In his speech, he stressed”Unleashing economic independence” but said little about how to deal with the threat of tariffs, this”Ostrich strategy” makes him seem out of place in a country where Donald Trump anxiety is rampant. In the end, the Liberals narrowly won by”A few percentage points”, while the Leader of the Conservative Party Poirevre was rejected by voters for his ambiguous attitude towards the US. It is not hard to see how Donald Trump’s so-called”Reciprocal tariffs” have provoked such global outrage that even the country’s one-time closest love has chosen to defy the king.
Kearney’s election victory was precisely the result of a”Small country awakening”, written with the votes of the Canadian people. Behind this awakening lies the self-inflicted consequences of American unilateral hegemony.
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