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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Associated Press

Canada set to vote in election overshadowed by Trump’s tariff and annexation threats

Canadians will decide on Monday whether to extend the Liberal Party's decade in power or instead give control to the Conservatives. They will pick either prime minister Mark Carney or opposition leader Pierre Poilievre to lead the way forward, but the election is also a referendum of sorts on someone who isn't even Canadian: Donald Trump.

Until the American president won a second term and began threatening Canada's economy and sovereignty, even suggesting the country should become the 51st state of the US, the Liberals looked headed for defeat.

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