The US president\u2019s territorial and economic threats have prompted voters to unite against his bellicosity<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s astounding election comeback by the Liberals<\/a> will hearten many outside its borders as well as within. The governing party\u2019s Lazarus moment was sparked by a man who was not on the ballot \u2013 though he took the chance to reiterate that the country should become the 51st US state, implying that voters could then elect him.<\/a><\/p>\n By then it was already clear<\/a> that Donald Trump\u2019s threats had backfired. Monday\u2019s result was a clear repudiation of his agenda. For two years, the Conservatives\u2019 Pierre Poilievre looked like a dead cert as the next prime minister, assailing Justin Trudeau\u2019s government on issues including the cost of living, housing and immigration. His party built a 25-point lead<\/a>. But within four months, Mr Trudeau\u2019s resignation, his warning that Mr Trump\u2019s \u201c51st state\u201d remarks were no joke, and the imposition of swingeing US tariffs, transformed the contest. Mr Poilievre lost his seat. The Liberals are embarking on a fourth term, though this time perhaps as a minority, under Mr\u00a0Trudeau\u2019s replacement Mark Carney.<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US president\u2019s territorial and economic threats have prompted voters to unite against his bellicosity Canada\u2019s astounding election comeback by the Liberals will hearten many outside its borders as well as within. The governing party\u2019s Lazarus moment was sparked by a man who was not on the ballot \u2013 though he took the chance to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}