January 13, 2026

Canada Elections

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President Donald Trump turned what was supposed to be a routine diplomatic meeting into a comedic masterclass Tuesday, sparring with newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Though tensions between the two nations have been on a steady climb — fueled by tariffs, trade disputes, and a hotly contested Canadian election — the president didn’t miss a chance to revive his favorite icebreaker: the idea of Canada becoming America’s 51st state.

Asked directly whether he still believed Canada should join the United States, Trump didn’t skip a beat.

“Well, I still believe that, but, you know, takes two to tango, right?” he said from the Oval Office. “I mean, I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens. You get free military, you get tremendous medical cares and other things. There would be a lot of advantages, but it would be a massive tax cut.”

With Carney sitting across from him, the president then took a detour into art and geography. “As a real estate developer, you know, I’m a real estate developer at heart,” Trump explained. “When you get rid of that artificially drawn line… just a straight line right across the top of the country… I looked at that, you know, I said that’s the way it was meant to be.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump heaped praise on newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his “comeback win” in Washington D.C. today, as the two leaders met at the White House for the first time. While Carney maintained Canada is “not for sale,” Trump replied, “never say never.”

While meeting in the White House, Trump said Carney’s win in last Monday’s federal election was the greatest thing that happened to the prime minister, calling it one of the greatest comebacks in the “history of politics.”

“Canada chose a very talented person,” said Trump with Carney sitting next to him.

Trump said he watched the Canadian federal leaders debate, saying the pro-abortion, World Economic Forum-linked Carney was “excellent.”

Trump then noted he had “a lot of respect” for Carney and said he did great in the debate and “ran a really great election.”

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Good Tuesday morning.

Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:

11:30am THE PRESIDENT greets the Prime Minister of Canada

11:45am: THE PRESIDENT participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada

12:15pm: THE PRESIDENT participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the Prime Minister of Canada

3:30pm: THE PRESIDENT participates in a FIFA Task Force Meeting

5pm: THE PRESIDENT participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the Assistant to the President, Senior Advisor and Special Envoy

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Alberta wants separation from Canada amid Donald Trump’s repeated calls for making Canada its 51st state.

Thousands of Albertans have been holding rallies, signing petitions to vote for separation from Canada as the Liberals make their fourth consecutive win in the country that US president Donald Trump wants to convert into the 51st state of the US.Alberta has a long-standing complaint that Ottawa treated them unfairly despite reaping huge economic benefit from its oil and gas resources While the call for a separation from Canada is not new, it has got a push in the wake of the recent election result.

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The most memorable meme of the recent Canadian election campaign emerged from the line outside an Ontario microbrewery, where an older Liberal Party supporter named Matt Janes flashed two middle fingers to protesters agitating against Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The obscenity went viral — with Janes becoming infamous as the Brantford Boomer — not just for its crass vulgarity, but for exposing the deep generational divide in Canada.

Polls showed Canadians boomers overwhelmingly backing the successful Liberal campaign, which Carney centered on confronting U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats to annex the country. Younger Canadians stuck living with their parents and unable to afford starting families supported the Conservative Party, which campaigned on cost-of-living issues, combating crime, and reversing what leader Pierre Poilievre branded the “lost decade” of economic malaise under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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A member of Canada‘s Parliament announced he would abandon his seat to ensure that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre can run in a special election and return to the House of Commons.

Conservative MP Damien Kurek indicated on Friday that he would only be “temporarily” abandoning the seat of Battle River-Crowfoot in Alberta, which he handily secured reelection to on Monday with 82% of the vote.

“Although it will be hard to temporarily step away from this role, in this region I love and have always called home, the mandate given to me is one that clearly states that change is needed,” Kurek said.

“Offering this seat to our party leader is an important step in that process,” he added.

Poilievre praised Kurek for the “selfless” move and vowed to “earn the trust of the good people of Battle River-Crowfoot.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Friday that he is set to meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House next Tuesday.

Carney’s upcoming visit comes in the context of ongoing trade conflicts between the two countries, along with Trump’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state of the US.

“On Tuesday, I had a very constructive call with President Trump, and we agreed to meet next Tuesday in Washington,” Carney said. “My government will fight to get the best deal for Canada.”

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Last week, Canadians voted in yet another Liberal government—the fourth in a row since 2015. The Liberals have proven themselves to be the most politically successful left-leaning party in the Western world over the past decade. In an age of populist conservative nationalism, they defy all odds. How do they keep doing it?

Let’s begin with a look at the past few months in Canadian politics, illustrated by three useful images.

Late last year, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval ratings dropped to around 20 percent. The Conservative Party opposition, led by Pierre Poilievre, made withering attacks on Trudeau’s Liberal government as incompetent, too far left, and out of touch. Canadian voters across the political spectrum viewed Trudeau as having badly mismanaged the economy. Polls predicted a 2025 Conservative Party landslide. The long-term trend appeared inexorable; the Liberals were doomed.

Prominent Liberal figures then did what ruthlessly effective political parties in the parliamentary tradition have always done—they stabbed their faltering leader in the back. On December 16th, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from the government, denouncing Trudeau as incompetent on fiscal matters. Since Freeland was the heir apparent to the Liberal Party leadership, jokingly referred to as “Minister of Everything,” this sent shock waves through the party like nothing else. But as so often happens in the Westminster system, the hand that wields the knife sometimes fails to pick up the crown.

 

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Canada has doubled down on its commitment to woke authoritarianism, re-electing a Liberal government led by woke globalist Mark Carney, who promises to mostly keep the same dystopian course Canada is already going down. At one point the conservative, Pierre Poilievre, led the Labor Party by 20 points, then PM Justin Trudeau stepped aside, and Poilievre chose to run away from Trump and MACA, Make Canada Great Again. Carney’s party holds a minority plurality with 170 seats, 2 seats short of a majority.

As a response, the province of Alberta has introduced Bill 54, which would allow for a referendum on Albertan separatism in light of Canada’s doubling down on a far-left government that puts ideology over people, party over Albertan sovereignty and well-being. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stated “I believe in Alberta sovereignty within a united Canada. However, there is a citizen referenda process that if citizens want to put a question on a ballot and get enough of their fellow citizens to sign that petition, then those questions will be put forward. Again, I don’t want to prejudge what a question might be.”

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After after the terror supporting far-left won the Canadian election, the Alberta Province submitted a petition to become the 51st State of America and could soon vote on seceding and joining the U.S. as the 51st state.

They’ve already started calling themselves “51st State Americans.”

Alberta is long-considered a “conservative fortress.”

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Alberta has reportedly surpassed the required 177,000 signatures to trigger a referendum process. And all of that in just one day…

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Canada’s conservative darling has gone from leading the polls by double digits to barely scraping by in the run up to the April 28 election.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has been described by media outlets as Canada’s version of President Donald Trump, held a nearly 25 point lead in CBC polling averages going into January 2025. However, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pending resignation and replacement with banker Mark Carney, the liberals are now leading in the polls with just a month left until Canadians cast their votes.

Trudeau’s approval rating was historically bad leading up to his resignation announcement in December 2024, with 74% of voters disapproving of his administration, according to the Angus Reid Institute.

It appears the Canadians are set for more years under “liberal tyranny” as the current frontrunner in the Canadian elections is Liberal Party head and current unelected PM Mark Carney. He leads Conservative party head Pierre Poilievre, 43.9% to 37.3%.

An op-ed from Mark Carney in 2022 shows his utter disdain for the Freedom Convoy. In the op-ed he declared “…no one should have any doubt. This is sedition. That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada. It means ‘incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority…. Those who are still helping to extend this occupation must be identified and punished to the full force of the law. Drawing the line means choking off the money that financed this occupation… Foreign funders of an insurrection interfered in our domestic affairs from the start. Canadian authorities should take every step within the law to identify and thoroughly punish them…”

RED FLAG: Carney called to freeze Freedom Trucker’s bank accounts, said protesters were ‘seditious’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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He described balloon bouncy castles and a grassroots, peaceful movement as “dangerous infrastructure” that was being “reinforced” by those funding the movement.

An unearthed op-ed from February 2022 by Mark Carney provides Canadians with insight into how the new prime minister views the rights of private citizens.

In the wake of the Freedom Convoy protests that gripped Ottawa, Carney, one week into the protests and just before the use of the Emergencies Act by then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made it clear that he was in favor of freezing the bank accounts of Canadians, cutting funding to the protest, and even calling the movement “seditious” without evidence. Carney declared that those who donated to the protest were “funding sedition” and referred to the organizers’ actions as “blatant treachery.”

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Lich and Barber were charged with mischief, counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police as leaders of the Freedom Convoy that polarized residents of Ottawa in February 2022 and arguably began to roll back Covid-19 mandates.

Ontario judge Heather Perkins-McVey has found Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich guilty on mischief charges in Ottawa’s provincial courthouse Thursday. Charges of counseling to commit mischief were stayed. The judge found Barber and Lich not guility on charges of commiting intimidation or counseling to commit intimidation.

Lich and Barber were charged with mischief, counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police as leaders of the Freedom Convoy that polarized residents of Ottawa in February 2022 and arguably began to roll back Covid-19 mandates.

The judge said she read the book “The Right to Protest: an Uneasy Balance” in reaching her verdict, and asked when does the right to protest “protect those from criminal liability” or or allow the them to infringe on “the right of other citizens to enjoy their property? Charter rights are not absolute.” She recessed the court before finishing the rest of her verdict on the remaining charges.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced snap elections for the parliament that will happen on April 28, 2025. The PM had until October before a mandatory election would take place. The opposition, Pierre Poilievre, had a commanding 24-point lead over former PM Justin Trudeau, but now the latest polls show Carney slightly ahead by a couple of points.

Canadian PM Mark Carney to call snap election for April 28: report– www.lifesitenews.com
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On April 28, Canadians will head to the polls in a snap election called by newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney, according to an inside source speaking anonymously to the Associated Press.

“The official says Carney will go to the governor-general on Sunday and request to dissolve Parliament,” the report said. “The governor-general holds a constitutional and ceremonial role as the representative of Canada’s head of state, King Charles III.”

The election call comes as Canada is in a trade war with the United States, a move which has resulted in an unexpected comeback for the Liberal Party.

Canada Has a New Prime Minister As Trudeau’s Rule Comes to an End – RedState– redstate.com
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Canada has voted for Former Central Bank Governor of Canada and Trump critic Mark Carney to be the next prime minister as he overwhelmingly won the vote to become the Liberal Party’s next leader. Current PM Justin Trudeau announced his resignation in early January. The extremely woke Trudeau has faced all sorts of controversies during his tenure and most recently has been the target of U.S. President Donald Trump, who is imposing tariffs on our neighbor to the north and laughing that it would make a great 51st state.

Carney took a defiant tone as he celebrated his victory:

Carney told cheering supporters that “Canada will never become part of America in any way, shape or form.”

Carney received 86% of the vote, or 131,764 votes of the 151,899 ones cast from the nearly 400,000 party members who registered to participate in the leadership election.

The new Liberal leader told members that they should be prepared to fight “the most important election of our lives” where the “stakes have never been higher.”

 

‘Canada will never ever be part of America,’ says Mark Carney after winning PM race– The Standard
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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said Canada will “never ever” be part of America after winning the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as the country’s prime minister.

Mr Carney – who headed up Britain’s central bank between 2013 and 2020 – will replace the 59-year-old after winning the Liberal Party leadership race.

Mr Trudeau, who has served as prime minister since 2015, announced he was stepping down in January after facing calls to quit from his own MPs.

Mr Carney, 59, is currently chairman of Canadian alternative investment firm Brookfield Asset Management. He will now have to decide when to call a general election in Canada – which must take place on or before October 20.

Canada’s New Prime Minister Demands ‘Americans Show Us Respect’– slaynews.com
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Canada’s new prime minister, globalist and former central banker Mark Carney, has demanded that President Donald Trump and the American people “show us respect.”

Carney, who is listed as an “agenda contributor” at the World Economic Forum (WEF), has just been elected to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party.

Just minutes after he was elected, Carney sent a warning to President Trump and the American people.

The warning comes amid increasingly hostile relations between the United States and its northern neighbor.

The 59-year-old leader made it clear that he intends to continue down Trudeau’s path of public spats with Trump.

He accused Trump of “trying to weaken our economy” in his speech to a raucous room full of Liberal Party voters.

“Donald Trump, as we know, has put unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living,” he said.

“He’s attacking Canadian workers, families, and businesses.

“We cannot let him succeed. And we won’t.”

Canada’s Conservative leader paints Mark Carney as a Trudeau devotee– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The leader of Canada‘s Conservative Party responded to the election news on Sunday by blasting newly-elected Liberal Party leader Mark Carney as being complicit in the economic policies of Justin Trudeau.

In a post on X, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said with the election of Carney, the Liberal Party is trying to “trick” the Canadian people into voting for them again by choosing someone who is close to Trudeau and was his economic adviser in 2020.

“Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term by replacing Trudeau with his economic advisor, Mark Carney,” Poilievre said.

He argued that the economic policies Carney shaped with Trudeau “drove up taxes, housing costs, and food prices,” while also accusing Carney of profiting off the offshoring of Canadian jobs to the United States.

Poilievre concluded by urging the Conservative Party’s cause “that will put Canada First — for a change.”

Canada’s Conservative leader paints Mark Carney as a Trudeau devotee– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The leader of Canada‘s Conservative Party responded to the election news on Sunday by blasting newly-elected Liberal Party leader Mark Carney as being complicit in the economic policies of Justin Trudeau.

In a post on X, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said with the election of Carney, the Liberal Party is trying to “trick” the Canadian people into voting for them again by choosing someone who is close to Trudeau and was his economic adviser in 2020.

“Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term by replacing Trudeau with his economic advisor, Mark Carney,” Poilievre said.

He argued that the economic policies Carney shaped with Trudeau “drove up taxes, housing costs, and food prices,” while also accusing Carney of profiting off the offshoring of Canadian jobs to the United States.

Poilievre concluded by urging the Conservative Party’s cause “that will put Canada First — for a change.”

Canada’s New Prime Minister Demands ‘Americans Show Us Respect’– slaynews.com
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Canada’s new prime minister, globalist and former central banker Mark Carney, has demanded that President Donald Trump and the American people “show us respect.”

Carney, who is listed as an “agenda contributor” at the World Economic Forum (WEF), has just been elected to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party.

Just minutes after he was elected, Carney sent a warning to President Trump and the American people.

The warning comes amid increasingly hostile relations between the United States and its northern neighbor.

The 59-year-old leader made it clear that he intends to continue down Trudeau’s path of public spats with Trump.

He accused Trump of “trying to weaken our economy” in his speech to a raucous room full of Liberal Party voters.

“Donald Trump, as we know, has put unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living,” he said.

“He’s attacking Canadian workers, families, and businesses.

“We cannot let him succeed. And we won’t.”

‘Canada will never ever be part of America,’ says Mark Carney after winning PM race– The Standard
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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said Canada will “never ever” be part of America after winning the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as the country’s prime minister.

Mr Carney – who headed up Britain’s central bank between 2013 and 2020 – will replace the 59-year-old after winning the Liberal Party leadership race.

Mr Trudeau, who has served as prime minister since 2015, announced he was stepping down in January after facing calls to quit from his own MPs.

Mr Carney, 59, is currently chairman of Canadian alternative investment firm Brookfield Asset Management. He will now have to decide when to call a general election in Canada – which must take place on or before October 20.

 

Trump turns Canadian elections upside down– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump‘s tariffs on Canadian imports are having a major impact on the country’s politics, but likely not one the president or his aides intended.

Canada’s Liberal Party, buoyed by Trump’s escalating trade war and jibes about making the country the 51st state, has rapidly closed the significant lead held by Conservatives and Leader Pierre Poilievre heading into federal elections this October.

Polling showed the Conservatives up 20 to 30 points earlier this year, but polls published in early March and late February showed the race narrowing to a toss-up.