Canada election results: Mark Carney to remain prime minister as Liberal Party defeats Conservatives

President Donald Trump injected himself into the race with his tariffs on Canadian imports and repeatedly saying Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

Canadian voters backed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party on Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects, in a national election strongly influenced by President Donald Trump.

The CBC said it was too early to know whether the Liberals would win enough seats to form a majority government, but it projected another term for the party, which has governed Canada for almost a decade.

“Who’s ready to stand up for Canada with me?” Carney told cheering supporters early Tuesday. He said that Trump’s repeated comments about making Canada the 51st U.S. state were “not idle threats.”

“President Trump is trying to break us, so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen,” he said.

Carney said it was important to recognize that “our world has fundamentally changed,” and that Canada’s old relationship with the United States, its longtime ally and trading partner, is “over.”