Nowhere has Donald Trump’s return as US president shaken up domestic politics quite as much as in Canada. It is remarkable enough that Mark Carney, a former central banker with no experience in politics or parliamentary seat, has been catapulted into the prime minister’s job with at least a fighting chance of winning an election that had seemed lost to his Liberal party. More remarkable still is that a Canadian leader should be faced with such a moment of peril for the country’s economy and sovereignty, after Trump’s tariff threats and talk of turning Canada into America’s 51st state. “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,” he said in his acceptance speech. “Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form.”
唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)重返美國總統職位，對加拿大國內政治的沖擊尤為顯著。令人驚訝的是，馬克?卡尼(Mark Carney)，這位沒有政治經驗或議會席位的前央行行長，竟然被推上了總理的位置，并且至少有一線希望贏得原本對自由黨來說似乎已失去的選舉。而更為引人注目的是，在特朗普發出關稅威脅并表示要把加拿大變成美國的第51個州之后，加拿大領導人竟然面臨著這樣一個危及國家經濟和主權的時刻。“美國人想要我們的資源、我們的水、我們的土地、我們的國家，”他在就職演講中說道，“加拿大絕不會以任何方式、形態或形式成為美國的一部分。”