In Canada, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Mark Carney won the legislative elections but did not achieve an absolute majority.
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00:00And also in Canada, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister McCartney won the legislative elections but did not achieve an absolute majority.
00:08The Liberal Party would currently have 155 seats to the Conservatives' 119, followed by the Quebec Bloc with 21 seats and the New Democratic Party with only 7 seats.
00:21McCartney, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, promised to diversify the country's international trade relations to reduce its dependence on the United States.
00:32For his part, the leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poullier, did not manage to become Prime Minister.
00:38His party, however, was shaping up to form a significant opposition in Parliament.
00:43The election process determines the composition of the 45th Canadian Parliament with the election of 343 members of the House of Commons.
00:58These elections were brought forward at a request of the current Prime Minister, McCartney, following the resignation of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
01:06The official's interest in bringing forward the new Parliament comes in response to the growing economic and diplomatic tensions with Washington over the implementation of tariffs on its products and President Donald Trump's open insinuations of including Canada as a 51st state of the United States.