Canada, minority government for Carney's Liberals. The neo-premier: 'Trump wants to destroy us'

Mark Carney's Canadian Liberals will have a minority government, having failed to win the 172 seats that would have guaranteed a majority. This was reported by CBC television, according to which Carney's party has put together 169 seats with two more to go. This brings to a close one of the fiercest election campaigns in modern Canada, in which Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals prevailed, beating Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, the favourite until a few weeks before the vote.

"The bond between Europe and Canada is strong - and getting stronger. I look forward to working closely together, both bilaterally and within the G7. We will defend shared democratic values, promote multilateralism and support free and fair trade'. Writing this, on X, is EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "Congratulations Mark Carney on your election victory. The long friendship and strategic partnership between the peoples of Europe and Canada will continue to strengthen on the basis of our shared values. I wish you all the best,' writes the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, on social media.

Earlier Mark Carney had delivered his first speech since the election victory. "This is Canada and we decide what happens here," he said. "We're going to have to think big and act big," he added, "We're going to have to do things that were previously thought impossible. The Liberal leader, Canada's next premier, then stated that "we can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away from us. The coming days and months will be challenging and require sacrifice. But we will share these challenges by supporting our workers'.

Carney was tough on the United States and US President Donald Trump: 'We have overcome the shock of the American betrayal, but we must never forget the lesson,' the Prime Minister of Canada told supporters in Ottawa. In his speech, Carney emphasised the importance of Canadian unity in the face of threats from Washington and reiterated a conviction he had already expressed during the election campaign: the mutually beneficial system that Canada and the United States had shared since the end of the Second World War has come to an end. "As I have been saying for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. These are not empty threats. President Trump is trying to destroy us in order to own us. This will never, ever happen. But we must also recognise the reality: our world has changed dramatically,' Carney said.

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, conceded defeat by acknowledging the victory of Premier Mark Carney's Liberals in the federal election.