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Canadian PM Carney to meet Trump at White House after election influenced by annexation threats
OTTAWA – While President Donald Trump was widely viewed as the major factor in securing a fourth consecutive term in office for the Liberals in last Monday’s Canadian general election, the Conservative leader played a role in his party’s defeat at the polls, according to Canadian political analysts.
«Trump set the stage» for Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney «as a somber leader for the Liberals, who made people feel assured that things could be handled when there was a sense of fear of people at the beginning of the campaign worried about» the president’s threats of annexing Canada as the 51st state, University of Manitoba political studies professor Christopher Adams told Fox News Digital.
«It’s highly unusual for American presidents to wade into Canadian politics, especially during elections,» said Adams.
He explained the last time that happened was during the 1963 Canadian general election campaign, when the press reported on President John F. Kennedy speaking favorably about Canadian Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, whose party toppled Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conservatives to win the election and form a minority government.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney smiles on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal Party won the Canadian election in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Trump directly inserted himself into Canada’s election day, April 28, as a quasi-candidate when he posted on social media that the «Great people of Canada» should «elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World…if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America.»
Whether in jest or not, the president’s pitch for annexation was a form of «foreign interference,» said Adams.
On NBC’s «Meet the Press» on Sunday, Trump said it was «highly unlikely» that the U.S. would use military force against Canada to acquire it as the 51st state.
The president will meet the Canadian prime minister for the first time at the White House on Tuesday.
After a post-election call with Carney last week, Trump said the Canadian leader «couldn’t have been nicer» and is «a very nice gentleman.»
When asked about his upcoming meeting with the president, the prime minister told reporters at his first post-election news conference on Friday that Trump «respects – as others who are good negotiators, and he’s one of the best negotiators – strength. That’s why we’re building Canada strong.»
Before the Canadian election was called on March 23, the president told Fox News’ «The Ingraham Angle» host Laura Ingraham that he would «rather deal with a Liberal than a Conservative,» and said that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is «stupidly no friend of mine.»
Trump earlier told The Spectator that the Conservative leader’s «biggest problem is he’s not a MAGA guy.»
«He’s not a Trump guy at all,» said the president.
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Conservative Party of Canada’s leader Pierre Poilievre looks on at his election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on April 29, 2025. (REUTERS/Amber Bracken)
Carney’s Liberals won 169 out of 343 seats in the House of Commons to form a minority government in Canada’s 45th general election with 44% of the popular vote. The Conservatives placed second, with 41% of the popular vote, and 144 House seats.
More than 19.5 million Canadians cast their ballots in the election.
Poilievre lost his position as official opposition leader after being defeated in his Ottawa-area riding by Liberal Bruce Fanjoy. Carney, in his first run at seeking public elected office, handily won his Ottawa seat.
Poilievre will run in a yet-to-be-called byelection in an Alberta district in which the Conservative MP Damien Kurek, who was re-elected, will step aside.
At the beginning of the year, polls showed Poilievre was poised to become prime minister and lead his Conservatives to a majority government. He just did not pivot fast enough to a new reality that unfolded within Canada since then, according to Adams, who is writing a book about Canada’s public opinion-research industry.
Justin Trudeau, whose deep unpopularity as Liberal leader and prime minister, stepped down in March and was replaced by Carney, who scrapped an equally unpopular consumer carbon tax – two targets Poilievre continued to focus on.
«And Poilievre kept saying the country is broken, which was the last thing Canadians wanted to hear when Trump was making our country broken,» said Adams, who added that the Conservative leader never polled high in likeability.
«Canadians didn’t realize how much they disliked him until Trudeau was gone.»
Then-President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Poilievre will meet in Ottawa on Tuesday with members of the Conservative caucus who won their ridings in last week’s election. They could decide whether he stays or goes as leader through the Reform Act – a 10-year-old law introduced in Parliament by re-elected Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Michael Chong that empowers parliamentarians to hold leadership reviews following elections.
Conservative MPs will also need to choose an interim official opposition leader.
Adams believes Poilievre’s job as party leader is safe given the Conservatives’ overall electoral performance that led to them winning 16 more Commons seats in the most populous Canadian province of Ontario – at the expense of both the Liberals and fellow progressive New Democrats – and their forming the largest official opposition in Canadian history.
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Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus in the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science, told Fox News Digital that the race between the Liberals and Conservatives narrowed when Trump pulled back his attacks against Canada in the latter half of the campaign.
The focus shifted to «Conservative issues – cost of living, affordability, housing, time for a change – while Carney was making speeches about Trump – because he knew that was his trump card, no pun intended – and it was wearing off,» said Wiseman.
Elections Canada signage is seen as voters arrive at a polling station on Election Day in Halifax, Canada, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP)
May will be a busy month for Carney. Next week, he will unveil his Cabinet and, on May 27, welcome King Charles III to read the Speech from the Throne to open the next session of Parliament as Canada’s head of state – the first time the British monarch has come to Ottawa to perform that ceremonial role since Queen Elizabeth II in 1977, 20 years after she did so during her first visit to Canada.
Wiseman said the royal visit is intended to showcase national unity in response to Trump’s threats against Canadian sovereignty.
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However, the man who represented the crown as governor general in Canada from 1979 to 1984 said that he «can’t believe that as many people are taking seriously this whole business of Trump talking about the annexation of Canada as an existential threat,» Edward Schreyer, a former premier of his home province of Manitoba, told Fox News Digital. «I think the whole thing is a joke – and was at the beginning, is now and ever shall be an absurdity.»
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Trump administration puts key Biden-era immigration policy on notice: ‘Unsustainable cycle’
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The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the «substantial» and «well-documented harms» the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.
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In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.
«Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,» Sauer said Wednesday. «This court should break that cycle.»
The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other «extraordinary and temporary conditions.»
Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.
The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in November that the U.S. would be ending TPS protections for Haitians in the U.S., prompting a group of individuals living in the U.S. with protected status to file suit.
The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.
Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.
The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.
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D. John Sauer, nominee to be solicitor general, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as «arbitrary and capricious» and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the «overwhelming evidence of present danger» in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.
«The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,» Reyes said. «And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.’»
The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.
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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.
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Guerra en Medio Oriente: más de 30 países liberan 400 millones de barriles de petróleo para contener la suba de precios
Más de 30 países acordaron por unanimidad liberar 400 millones de barriles de petróleo, que tenían en sus reservas, en un intento por frenar la escalada de precios originada por la guerra en Medio Oriente.
Así lo decidieron los 32 países miembros de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE), en lo que la entidad catalogó como el mayor desbloqueo de reservas de emergencia en su historia.
Este miércoles, el precio del petróleo Brent subía 4,7% y se acercaba a los US$92 por barril. Horas atrás de la medida de la AIE, Irán amenazó que el valor del crudo internacional rondaría los US$200.
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“Los países de la AIE pondrán 400 millones de barriles de petróleo (…) a disposición del mercado para compensar la pérdida de suministro por el cierre efectivo del estrecho de Ormuz”, anunció el director ejecutivo de la agencia, Fatih Birol.
“Se trata de una acción de gran envergadura que tiene como objetivo mitigar los efectos inmediatos de la perturbación de los mercados. Pero, para que quede claro, lo más importante para el retorno a unos flujos estables de petróleo y gas es la reanudación del tránsito por el estrecho de Ormuz”, afirmó el directivo.
Según Birol, las reservas de emergencia se pondrán a disposición del mercado según un calendario adaptado a la situación de cada país miembro y se complementarán con medidas de emergencia adicionales en algunas naciones. Nuevos recortes en la producción mundial de crudo (Foto: Reuters)
La guerra en Oriente Medio, que comenzó el 28 de febrero, afecta el comercio de petróleo a través del estrecho de Ormuz, un punto de paso crucial por el que transitan cada día 15 millones de barriles de petróleo y otros 5 millones de barriles diarios de productos petrolíferos, lo que representa aproximadamente el 25% del transporte mundial de petróleo por vía marítima.
Los miembros de la AIE poseen más de 1200 millones de barriles en sus reservas de emergencia, a los que se suman 600 millones de barriles de reservas en manos de la industria en virtud de obligaciones gubernamentales.
El anuncio de la AIE llegó mientras los líderes del G7, de las economías más avanzadas del mundo, estudian medidas para frenar las consecuencias económicas de la guerra entre Estados Unidos e Israel con Irán.
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Los dirigentes del G7 tienen previsto reunirse por videoconferencia este miércoles para “tratar seguramente” el tema de las reservas energéticas, según el ministro francés de Economía, Roland Lescure.
En ese marco, Japón -cuyas reservas estratégicas de petróleo se encuentran entre las mayores del mundo- y Alemania afirmaron que también recurrirían a sus reservas de crudo.
La liberación coordinada de reservas de la AIE es la sexta en la historia de la institución, creada en 1974.
En 1991, antes de la guerra del Golfo, ya se llevaron a cabo acciones colectivas similares, así como en 2005, tras los huracanes Katrina y Rita, en 2011, con motivo de la guerra civil libia, y en dos ocasiones tras la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en 2022.
Nueva advertencia de Irán: “Esperen un barril de petróleo a US$200”
Irán advirtió este miércoles que no será posible bajar el precio del petróleo mediante “medidas artificiales” y que se puede esperar, por la presión que han impuesto en el estrecho de Ormuz, que el precio del barril suba a 200 dólares. Hoy, el barril Brent se ubicaba por encima de US$90.
“Deben saber que no podrán bajar el precio del petróleo y de la energía mediante medidas artificiales. Con la expansión de la guerra en la región, ya advertimos que pueden esperar un barril de petróleo de 200 dólares, porque el precio del petróleo depende de la seguridad en la región, y ustedes son la fuente de esa inseguridad», afirmó el portavoz del Cuartel General Central de Jatam al-Anbia, Ebrahim Zolfagari.
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