News Analysis
Prime Minister Mark Carney was elected after running a campaign heavily focused on saying U.S. President Donald Trump poses an existential threat to Canada, but it remains to be seen whether this messaging will continue now that the election has passed.
The Liberals tapped heavily into rising nationalist sentiment in Canada, caused by Trump’s talk of making the country the 51st U.S. state and by the imposition of three different sets of tariffs on its largest trading partner.
Stoking patriotism had not been a major card of the Liberals under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had started his mandate in 2015 by telling the New York Times there was no “core identity” in Canada, making it the “first post-national state.”...