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Happy Monday and happy election day to our friends and neighbors up north,
Canadians will go to the polls today in an election that has more or less become a referendum on Trump, tariffs and the country’s relationship with America. The Liberals, led by incumbent PM Mark Carney, look poised to beat Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives—what will be, if it comes to pass, a shocking reversal from just a couple months ago. When Justin Trudeau officially resigned on January 6, after a decade in office, his party looked like it was set for an absolute drubbing. But, wittingly or not, Trudeau pulled off one of the savvier political moves I can remember by not just resigning but actually vanishing from the face of the Earth—therefore allowing the focus turn to the new American president and his threats to Canada rather than a referendum on …