On Monday night, President Donald Trump single-handedly saved Canada’s Liberal Party from the electoral disaster predicted by pollsters for over a year. With 99% of polls reporting, the Liberals secured 168 seats in the federal election—just shy of the 172 needed for a majority government, but a stunning comeback for a party that, earlier this year, was expected to be nearly wiped out by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. It is the first time a Canadian government has earned a fourth mandate since William Lyon Mackenzie’s four consecutive terms from 1921 to 1935.
