{"id":2717,"date":"2026-04-13T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/2717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:33:13","slug":"canadian-pm-carney-on-the-verge-of-majority-government-in-special-election-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/2717\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian PM Carney on the verge of majority government in special election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is on the verge of securing a majority government as special elections are held in three districts.<\/p>\n

Votes are being cast in the Toronto-area districts of Scarborough Southwest and University-Rosedale, which are considered safe seats for Mr Carney\u2019s Liberals, and in the Montreal-area district of Terrebonne, which is considered a toss-up.<\/p>\n

Winning just one of them would give Mr Carney a majority. The Liberals now have 171 members of Parliament in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

They need 172 to secure a majority government, which would allow them to unilaterally pass any bill.<\/p>\n

Once the Liberals get that, they could stay in power until 2029 without the need for a new general election.<\/p>\n

\"Canada<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney leaves the stage (Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/p>\n

(Christinne Muschi)<\/p>\n

The results are expected on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Five defections from opposition parties to Mr Carney, including four from the main opposition Conservative party, have put Mr Carney\u2019s Liberals on the cusp of the majority.<\/p>\n

One of those defectors referenced Mr Carney\u2019s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as helping his decision.<\/p>\n

In the speech, Mr Carney condemned economic coercion by great powers against smaller countries and received widespread praise for his remarks.<\/p>\n

Mr Carney won Canada\u2019s election last year fuelled by public anger over US president Donald Trump\u2019s annexation threats.<\/p>\n

Mr Carney, former head of the Bank of England as well as Canada\u2019s central bank, has moved the Liberals to the centre-right since replacing Justin Trudeau as prime minister in 2025.<\/p>\n

Daniel Beland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said the Liberals are almost certain to win the two Toronto seats and have a shot at winning in Terrebonne.<\/p>\n

Mr Beland said the deterioration of Canada-US relations under the second Trump presidency has convinced many Canadians, including people who do not identify as Liberal, to rally behind the prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarney has thus far proved that he is an astute politician, despite the fact that he only formally entered the political arena in January of last year,\u201d Mr Beland said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Davos speech has certainly helped boost Carney\u2019s support at home, and he is now significantly more popular than when he became prime minister nearly 13 months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is on the verge of securing a majority government as special elections are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[822,1797,122,117,111,1798],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canadian-prime-minister","tag-daniel-beland","tag-liberals","tag-majority-government","tag-mark-carney","tag-mr-carney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}