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Canada Just Flipped the Script on Trump
Carney’s improbable comeback wasn’t a campaign — it was a resistance movement punching back at the empire next door
No one cast a ballot for Donald Trump in Canada’s election. But millions voted against him.
The on April 28 was not just a political surprise — it was a national reflex. A gut reaction to a foreign strongman who thinks he can humiliate a country into submission. Instead, he handed the very thing he needed most: a reason for Canadians to care.
Because just months ago, the Liberals were circling the drain — , written off as spent, aimless, leaderless. Until Trump opened his mouth.
He joked — but not really — that Canada should become and even mused about how . And for Carney, that wasn’t a political threat. It was a gift in disguise.
Because what Canadians heard wasn’t a joke. They heard invasion. Absorption. Aggression. And they answered the only way that matters in a democracy — by marking the box that said: not this time.
Trump’s imperialistic threats , and Carney — the banker, the technocrat, the crisis manager who once ran two central banks and…
