The Canadians vote in a choice that is dominated by Trump's trade war

Toronto (AP) – Canadian voted on Monday whether she should support your new prime minister, Mark CarneyAnd extend the decade of his liberal party in power or hand control to the conservatives and their populist leaders. Pierre Poilievre. But the choice was also a referendum about someone who is not even Canadian: Donald Trump.

The US President Troll the Canadians on election day by proposing on social media that he was actually on the ballot and repeated that Canada was supposed to become the 51st state and incorrectly claimed that the United States subsidizes Canada. “It makes no sense unless Canada is a state!” Trump wrote.

Poilievre, who was criticized for not taking a firmer attitude against Trump, replied with his own post.

“President Trump, remains of our choice. The only people who will decide on the future of Canada are Canadians in the ballot box,” he posted. “Canada will always be proud, confident and independent and we will never be the 51st state.”

Until Trump won a second term and started Canada's economy and sovereignty threatenThe liberals looked on the way to defeat. But Trump's truculence has made many Canadians angrymany to lead to Cancel us vacationRefuse to buy American goods and possibly even coordinate early. A record of 7.3 million Canadians gave ballot papers before the election day.

Trump's attacks also put PILIEVRE and the opposition's conservative party on the defensive and led to one Increase in nationalism That helped the liberals to turn the voting count.

“The Americans want to break us so that they can own us,” said Carney recently and found what he saw as the choice of choice. “These are not just words. That is the risk.”

The election day came when the country dealt with the Fallout of A Fatal weekend attack at a street fair in Vancouver This led to the suspension of the campaigns for several hours. The police excluded terrorism and said the suspect was a local man with a history of mental health.

Trump became the main problem

Poilievre and his wife went hand in hand to coordinate in their district in the capital Ottawa in the nation. “Go out to make a change,” he borrowed the voters.

The sisters Laiqa and Mahira Shoaib said they had done exactly that Laiqa, a 27-year-old health worker, voted for the progressive new democratic party, and Mahira, a 25-year-old bank employee, supports the conservatives.

The sisters, who emigrated from Pakistan a decade ago, said that the economy had deteriorated and the employment opportunities had dried out under liberal rule.

After the sisters voted in a community center in the suburb of Mississauga in Toronto, Mahira Shoaib said that she was best equipped for improving the Canada's finances.

“He is legally competent and we just need that,” she said.

Poilievre had hoped to make the choice a referendum for earlier Prime Minister Justin TrudeauTheir popularity decreased in power towards the end of his decade when food and real estate prices rose and the immigration increased.

But then Trump became the dominant problem, and Pioilievres similarities with the bombastic president could cost him.

“He appeals to the same feeling of the complaint,” said Canadian historian Robert Bothwell about the conservative guide. “It is as if Trump is standing there and saying: 'I'm your retribution.'”

“The liberals should pay him,” added Bothwell and referred to the American president. “Talking Trump is not good for the conservatives.”

Foreign policy has not dominated a Canadian election since 1988 when free trade with the United States was the predominant problem.

The winner will have a litany of challenges

Canada has had a lifestyle crisis for some time. And more than 75% of his exports go to the USA, so

Both Carney and Poilievre said that if they were chosen, they would accelerate new negotiations from a free trade agreement between Canada and the USA in order to end the uncertainty that violates their two economies.

Carney has remarkable experience in the navigation of economic crids after led the Canadian central bank and later the first non-OK citizen who headed the Bank of England as the first non-AK citizen.

Trump chose his speech that Canada became the 51st state during the campaign until last week when he said that Canada “would stop as a country” if the United States stopped buying its goods. He also said that he not only trolls Canada when he says that it should be a state.

In response to the threats to the Canadian sovereignty, Carney asked the voters to handle a strong mandate with Trump.

“President Trump has some obsessive ideas, and that's one,” said Carney about his annexation threat. “It is not a joke. It is his very strong desire to achieve this. It is one of the reasons why this crisis is so serious.”

Reid Warren, a resident of Toronto, said he chose liberal because Poilievre “sounds like a mini-trump”. And he said Trump's tariffs were a concern.

“Canadians who come from the states are great, but it is definitely a little turmoil, that's for sure,” he said.

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The reporter of Associated Press, Mike Householder, contributed to this report.