{"id":3035,"date":"2026-04-13T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/3035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:20:04","slug":"canadas-prime-minister-carney-nears-majority-government-in-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/3035\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s prime minister Carney nears majority government in special election"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian<\/a> Prime Minister Mark Carney is on the verge of securing a majority government as special elections are held in three districts on Monday.<\/p>\n

Votes are being<\/a> cast in the Toronto-area districts of Scarborough Southwest and University-Rosedale, which are considered safe seats for 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 Carney a majority. The Liberals now have 171 members of Parliament in the House of Commons. 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

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

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

One of those defectors referenced Carney\u2019s speech at the World Economic Forum<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland, as helping his decision. In the speech, Carney condemned economic coercion by great powers against smaller countries and received widespread praise for his remarks.<\/p>\n

Carne<\/a> y won Canada\u2019s election<\/a> last year fueled by public anger over U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s annexation threats.<\/p>\n

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

Daniel B\u00e9land, 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

B\u00e9land said the deterioration of Canada-U.S. 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 B\u00e9land 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":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is on the verge of securing a majority government as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[1801,17,591,1806,162,133,592,1803,127,1800,111,50,113,48,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-3035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-2026-elections","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canada-government","11":"tag-daniel-bland","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-international-news","16":"tag-justin-trudeau","17":"tag-liberalism","18":"tag-mark-carney","19":"tag-montreal","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-toronto","22":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}