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Preliminary results projected by CBC in Canada’s snap federal election, which took place Monday, suggest that the country’s Liberal Party—which is currently in power—will win enough seats in the Canadian parliament to allow party leader Mark Carney to remain Prime Minister, though it remains unclear whether with a majority or minority government.

In some ways, it was the United States—specifically, President Donald Trump—that handed victory to Carney’s party, headed until March by then–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Before Trump launched a trade war with Canada and began insisting that the country should become America’s “51st state”—a Trump fixation and source of ire to Canadians—Trudeau was dropping in popularity, as was his party. But in a rousing speech in February, Trudeau—who had already planned to step down—vowed that Canada would fight back:

We will stand strong for Canada. We will stand strong …