Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s party swept to victory in special elections on Monday, boosting the leader\u2019s parliamentary majority as a trade war with the United States escalates.<\/p>\n
Carney\u2019s Liberal Party secured three seats, taking the district of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in French-speaking Quebec from the opposition Conservatives, and two other districts in Ontario and British Columbia that were previously held by the Liberals.<\/p>\n
Carney congratulated the winning candidates in a post on X, saying that voters had \u201cplaced their trust\u201d in the government \u201cat this consequential time for Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada is being tested in a changing world, and Canadians are up for it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Relations between former close allies the United States and Canada have soured after trade talks collapsed last month, with Carney saying US negotiators sought restrictions on his country\u2019s trade pacts with other nations.<\/p>\n
US officials made unacceptable \u201cthreats\u201d to the French language and \u201cQuebec culture\u201d too, he added.<\/p>\n
After Washington slapped Canada with 50 per cent duties, Ottawa announced counter-tariffs of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s party swept to victory in special elections on Monday, boosting the leader\u2019s parliamentary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2430,103,32029,9567,352641,31775,36946,151012,9580,3,2432,16249,2433,21,19,22,20,25,24,2002,20433],"class_list":["post-832813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadians","tag-chicoutimi-le-fjord","tag-conservatives","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-liberal-party","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-quebec","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}