‘The biggest f*****g disaster’: Canada votes today in an election dominated by the Oval Office [Video]

Liberal leader Prime Minister Mark Carney at a rally in Quebec. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

CANADA GOES TO the polls today in an election that will be watched closely by governments around the world and anyone with an eye on how events shape voting. 

The election of President Donald Trump in the United States four years after he was voted out has transformed the political climate north of the longest border in the world. 

As recently as mid-February, Canadian state broadcaster CBC had given the opposition Conservative party a 99% chance of winning parliamentary elections and kicking the Liberals out after 10 years and three terms in office. 

That probability has now completely flipped, with the Liberals being given a 96% chance of victory as of last week. 

The polling numbers underlying those probabilities are stark, with the Conservatives enjoying a 23 point lead in the polls in January and seeing that collapse to a point where they …