PM Mark Carney calls snap election as Trump spectre looms [Video]

Washington: Canadians will go to the polls at the end of April in an election that will be as much about another country as it is their own.

The shadow of Donald Trump hangs over the five-week campaign in an election that is suddenly competitive again thanks to the US president’s taunts and tariffs and the exit of former prime minister Justin Trudeau, whose star had faded into liability.

His successor as Liberal Party leader and prime minister, Mark Carney, is simultaneously peak establishment – an investment banker who ran the central banks of both Canada and Britain – and a political outsider, having never held a seat in parliament.

On Sunday, his 10th day in the job, Carney attended a morning church service …