Canada Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney warns Trump to back off

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Apr 29, 2025

By clicking submit, I authorize Arcamax and its affiliates to: (1) use, sell, and share my information for marketing purposes, including cross-context behavioral advertising, as described in our Privacy Policy , (2) add to information that I provide with other information like interests inferred from web page views, or data lawfully obtained from data brokers, such as past purchase or location data, or publicly available data, (3) contact me or enable others to contact me by email or other means with offers for different types of goods and services, and (4) retain my information while I am engaging with marketing messages that I receive and for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. I understand I can opt out at any time through an email that I receive, or by clicking here

Canada’s Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney is warning President Donald Trump to back off after scoring a convincing victory in an election driven by north-of-the-border anger over the mushrooming trade war and annexation threats.

In a triumphant victory speech, the Liberal Party leader warned Trump to stop bullying its neighbor and that Canada would never agree to become the 51st state.

“President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never, ever happen,” Carney told a crowd of cheering supporters late Monday night.

“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” he said. “These are not idle threats.”

Carney warned Trump to stop suggesting Canada should become the 51st U.S. state, calling it an “American betrayal” of its closest ally.

The former central banker vowed to rebuild a Canadian economy that would be less dependent on the United States, which he said had exposed itself as an unreliable political, diplomatic and trading partner.

“We need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations,” he said.

Carney was set to be named the new prime minister but it wasn’t clear whether his party would win an absolute majority of seats in parliament with counting still going on.

Trump, who insists he is not joking about annexing Canada, repeated his 51st state call on election day Monday, a move that may have juiced turnout for Carney.

He didn’t immediately comment on the results, which came as he marks 100 days in his second term in the White House.

Carney’s Liberals had looked to be facing a landslide defeat just a couple of months ago as Canadians looked to turn the page on the unpopular rule of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

But Trump’s trade war and saber-rattling gave a huge boost to Carney as voters wanted to send a clear message to the U.S. that the country wouldn’t take the threats lying down.

Carney’s party won by luring significant support away from smaller parties like a more progressive one that supports autonomy for the French-speaking province of Quebec.

The opposition Conservatives, which had been eyeing a sweeping victory, sought to distance themselves from Trump’s rhetoric, but voters apparently saw them as too closely linked to his right-wing policies.

_____