Under threat from Trump, Canada calls snap elections for April 28 [Video]

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called early elections for April 28, pledging to defeat Donald Trump’s drive to annex the United States’s huge northern neighbor.

Carney, a former central banker, was chosen by Canada’s centrist Liberal Party to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister, but he has never faced the country’s broader electorate.

That will now change as Carney brought parliamentary elections forward several months from October, and he made it clear that the barrage of threats coming from the US president and the trade war he has launched will be the crux of his campaign.

“I’ve just requested that the governor general dissolve parliament and call an election for April 28. She has agreed,” Carney said in a speech to the nation, referring to King Charles III’s representative in Canada, a member of the British Commonwealth.

Trump “wants to break us, so America can own us. …