How Mark Carney Won Canadas Pivotal Election [Video]

“Canada is broken,” he said, over and over again, and many agreed.

He put together a stable-looking coalition of support for his plan to axe the consumer carbon tax, defund the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, crack down on crime, and fire the gatekeepers blocking housing and free enterprise.

Then Trump started threatening to make Canada the 51st state, terrifying Canadians. Desperate Liberals finally managed to ditch Trudeau and replaced him with Carney. Overnight, Conservative support tanked, which left them wondering where they had gone wrong.

Ontario’s Conservative Premier, Doug Ford, has some ideas about that. A folksy, larger-than-life gladhander from suburban Toronto, he won a third majority government in February by promising to protect Ontario during the trade war. As a former fan of the U.S. president, he reflected the sense of betrayal that Canadians feel after their longtime ally and only neighbor turned on them.

Ford sat downwith Carney for a friendly breakfast in …