Trump decided the election in Canada – Diepresse.com

From the outside, it was a Canadian choice – but in truth, everything was about the United States. Donald Trump was the elephant in the polling station, which reminded the neighboring country with customs threats and open interference on how fragile national sovereignty can suddenly work.

It was a historical repetition with the reverse sign. As early as 1890, an American politician tried to put Canada under economic pressure. His name: William McKinley. He later became president. The reaction of the Canadians at the time: demarcation, loyalty to the British Empire, a conscious no to capture by the southern neighbor.

Today it is McKinley’s political revenue in populism format that puts Canada under pressure. Trump still tried to support the conservative challenger Pierre Pioilievre with a direct election recommendation – combined with the barely rejected offer, Canada as a 51st state: « It makes no sense, except, Canada is a state! », Wrote Trump on Monday.

He didn’t care that he was providing Poilievre. Even more: The liberals, which was believed to be in the sinking in the sinking, were able to hold their new prime minister, Mark Carney. According to Justin Trudaus, he had taken the party who actually wanted to punish the Canadians. Poilievre was still in front of Trudeau in January.

The situation was completely different on Monday. Canada’s voters did not choose Carney, the former central bank boss Canada and Great Britain. He is a man who looks like the office leader in auditing and also speaks. For Trump supporters, he is the personified evil: a globalist, a technocrat, one who reads tables. Say: The exact opposite of everything that the incumbent US president stands for. But that made him a credible opposite pole. It was less a vote for Carney – than a vote against Trump’s influence.