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The Canadians in six malzons voted on Monday to choose a new leader to confront Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threats that the US President renewed in an energetic election day message.

The liberal party, led by the new Prime Minister Mark Carney, seemed to lose against the Conservatives Pierre until Trump's attacks on Canada triggered a sudden reversal of the poll forecasts.

Trump joined Canadian politics with a social media post on election day and said that Canada would “zero tariffs” if it “becomes an estimated 51st state”.

“Not artificially drawn from many years ago,” he said.

Trump's awareness in the race has injured Poilievres to become prime minister, and the Tory leader hit it back before he was right on Monday.

“President Trump, stay out of our choice,” he wrote on X. “Canada will always be proud, confident and independent and we will never be the 51st state.”

Carney also blamed the president and said about X: “This is Canada and we decide what happens here.”

The 60-year-old has never held a elected office and replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister last month.

He had a lucrative career as an investment banker before acting as a governor of the central bank both in Canada and Great Britain.

Carney has argued that his global financial experience has prepared him to lead Canada's reaction to Trump.

“We don't need chaos, we need peace. We don't need trouble, we need an adult,” said Carney in the final days of the campaign.

Poilievre, a 45-year-old career politician, tried to keep the focus on domestic concerns that Trudeau was deeply unpopular towards the end of his decade.

The Tory leader argued that Carney would continue “the lost liberal decade” and that only the conservatives against rising costs, closer to housing and other non-trump issues that the Canadians call priorities would act.

– 'Calm' –

The last surveys indicate a tight race, but Carney as favorites.

In warm spring weather, Canadians stood outside of schools, community centers and other venues in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

The Hamza Fahri, who lives in Montreal, who wants to coordinate after work, described the election as “unique”.

“I wanted to vote for changes in Canada. I wanted the liberals to go, but in the end I will vote for Carney because he is a strong, serious man and that is what the country is exposed to Trump,” the 28-year-old engineer told AFP.

But Kelsey Leschasin, who lives in the conservative central province of Saskatchewan, said her priority was “change”.

“I am not agreed with the liberal government and how to lead our country,” she told AFP in Montreal, where she attended a conference.

In Ottawa, Caroline Jose expressed concern that Trump's threats had put voters in “a kind of panic” and that critical problems such as income recess had not been discussed.

“I wish we could calm things down and (people) could coordinate with their minds and not with their stomach,” said the 46-year-old.

– Historical turnaround? – –

If the liberals win, this would be one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history.

On January 6, the day on which Trudeau announced that he would step down, the conservatives led the liberals by more than 20 points in most surveys.

But Carney replaced Trudeau, combined with nationwide discomfort about Trump, the race.

The survey of the public broadcaster CBC on Sunday did the national support of the liberals to 42.8 percent, with conservative 39.2 percent.

The performance of two smaller parties and the left New Democratic Party and the separatist Bloc Quebececois could be decisive, since both parties selected the liberal seats in previous voices.

Almost 29 million Canada can vote in 41 million people in the massive G7 country. A record of 7.3 million people who occupy advanced ballot papers.

Canadians choose 343 parliamentary deputies, which means that 172 seats are needed for a majority. The liberals won a majority in 2015, but have had a minority since 2019.

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