On Monday, Canadians are entering polling stations to vote in elections, which many consider a referendum regarding the country’s relations with the United States, after President Trump launched the economic war and even talked about the inclusion of his northern neighbor.
The elections are held after a killer car occurred on Saturday in Vancouver. The accident, as a result of 11 people who died, suspended the election campaign for several hours. The police ruled out a copy of terrorism and stated that they had accused a murder of a man suffering from mental disorders.
In the election race between current Prime Minister Mark Carne and his opponent, conservative leader Pierre Boer Boelvri, the leader of the liberals, is building his campaign on the existential threat emanating from US President Donald Trump.
“The Americans want to break us to take place, Carney said on Friday’s march. – These are not just words. This is a threat. “
Trump’s re -election and the launch of the economic war that became a blessing of the party: the war speech of the head of the White House to Canada caused the wrath of the voters and put a candidate from the conservatives, who compares with the American President of his popular style, in an terrible position.
The resignation of President Justin Trudeau and Trump’s commercial war was a clear break in the fate of the parties: the support of the conservatives fell, and the voters began to support the liberals, which, as it seemed earlier, expected a historic defeat.
Carney, a former central bank employee, won a convincing victory in the election of the party leader.
The conservatives were hoping to take advantage of the lack of popularity of Triozo and a long crisis of the cost of life in the country, but instead Trump became the dominant issue.
Canadians interrupted American goods, and flights to the United States sharply fell, as President Trump launched a trade war, and as a result Ottawa entered counter -interviews against Washington. On Monday, more than 7.3 million Canadians voted in the early elections, and destroyed the record.
Both candidates promise to renew the free trade agreement between Canada and the United States of America, which affects 75 % of the country’s exports.
Last week, Trump repeated the threats of sovereignty in Canada, saying that it “stops being as a country” if the United States stops buying its goods.
They returned to this issue on the weekend, when Foreign Minister Marco Rubio was asked if Trump would be raised to Canada. He said in an interview with press meetings on NBC with Christine Wilker: “I think the president has repeatedly mentioned that he believes that Canada will be better in our state.”
Carney asked voters to give him a strong mandate to combat the threats of Canada by the American President.
“President Trump has many obsessive ideas, and this is one of them,Carney said. – This is not a joke. He really wants this to happen. This is one of the reasons why this crisis is very dangerous. “
Additional sources • AP