Carney, who was picked to take over the leadership of the Liberals in March, reaped the benefits of Trump’s adversarial stance toward the neighboring country.

Carney's win represented a repudiation of Trump's volley of threats to annex Canada and make it the "51st state." That rhetoric – along with punishing tariffs on Canadian goods – has sparked an unprecedented wave of Canadian nationalism and overturned years of stability between the two neighbors.