Canadians vote in an election dominated by Trump’s trade war and bluster WSOC TV [Video]

TORONTO — (AP) — Canadians were deciding Monday whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power by picking new Prime Minister Mark Carney or hand control to the opposition Conservatives and their populist leader Pierre Poilievre. But the election also was a referendum of sorts on someone who isn’t even Canadian: Donald Trump.

The U.S. president trolled Canadians on election day with a post on social media suggesting he was on the ballot and repeating that Canada should become the 51st state, incorrectly claiming that the U.S. subsidizes Canada. “It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!” Trump posted.

Poilievre, who has campaigned with Trump-like braggadocio, responded to Trump with a post of his own.

“President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box,” Poilievre posted. “Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be …