Mark Carney accomplished the impossible. At the end of 2024, the Liberal Party of Canada was dead; it faced obliteration at the next election and a severe rebuke at the hands of voters. So when Carney ascended the stage last night to make his victory speech, it was a political resurrection.

The former banker and first-time politician, the man who hasn’t lived in Canada for the past 10 years, stepped into the void left by the resignation of Justin Trudeau and won an unprecedented fourth term for the Liberals. This was a stunning and historic moment.

For the Liberal Party, it was almost the perfect election.

But maybe it was too perfect. How did Carney pull off this resurrection? What was the catalyst of this dramatic change in Canadian politics? What changed the minds of Canadians?

Hate.

Ever since Donald Trump’s tariffs and 51st state rhetoric, the air in Canada has been supercharged with a spirit of hatred for the American president. This was the catalyst to the surge of national unity, the catalyst to Carney’s victory, and the catalyst that changed the vote for many Canadians.

This election of hate may have changed the course of Canada as a nation. This emotional, hate-fueled decision will have repercussions most Canadians have not stopped to consider. The Bible warns us about the destructive consequences of living by a spirit of hatred. Canadians have chosen to learn these truths the hard way.

The Red Wave

Votes are still being counted, but at this stage Carney will lead at least a minority government. Liberals are projected to win 169 seats, with 172 needed to form a majority government. That is a gain of 15 seats over 2021. The Liberals also won the popular vote with 43.7 percent.

For the other parties, the Conservatives are slated to win 144 seats; the Bloc Québécois, 22 seats; the New Democrats (ndp), 7; and the Green Party, 1. At the time of this writing, 13 ridings still haven’t been called; many are very close races.

One of the biggest stories of this election was the collapse of the ndp vote. In 2021, the ndp received 17.8 percent; this time it was 6.3 percent, losing 17 seats. Their leader, Jagmeet Singh, lost his seat and announced his intention to resign. It appears ndp support went to the Liberals.

Support also bled from the Bloc, the Quebec separatist party. Its share of the vote declined 1 point to 6.3 percent; it lost 13 seats, mostly to the Liberals. This red wave in Quebec helped push the Liberals, who had underperformed in Ontario, over the top.

ndp and the Bloc Québécois will likely work with Carney, effectively allowing him to govern with a majority government.

The Conservatives had a much better showing than in 2021, yet it was a disaster. They won 41.4 percent of the popular vote, the most since 1988, actually gaining more seats than the Liberals with 16—but they will end up being the opposition party again.

What’s worse, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is forecast to lose his Ottawa-area riding! So the Conservatives, despite performing better than in 2021, lose not only the election but also their leader.

This is where the irregularities enter the picture. This is especially true in Poilievre’s riding of Carlton, in Ottawa. There were three strange occurrences:

• The Carlton riding was recently redrawn to include some more Liberal areas of Ottawa.
• Carlton had the highest number of early voting in the entire country at 44,000.
• Carlton was targeted by certain groups to have the most candidates on the ballot. There were 91 candidates, making the ballot 3 feet long, causing confusion, and making the ballots difficult to count.

Is this coincidence? Why did these things happen in the riding of the Conservative leader? This was either the perfect storm for the Liberals or a carefully executed plan of attack on Poilievre.

Perhaps the most distressing irregularity was the pausing of vote counting early Tuesday morning when the ridings were in many close contests. At that point, special ballots and mail-in ballots were being counted. Why the pause?

This election result is almost too perfect for the Liberals. As the numbers continue to come in and are confirmed, expect recounts and contention over certain results. Stay tuned to the Trumpet for more analysis on why Canada experienced a red wave.

Perhaps the most marked feature of this election wasn’t the manipulation of ballots but the psychological manipulation leading up to election night.

Will Worship

This election was unique in the surge of patriotism in its lead-up. Canada is a famously divided nation: It has deep-seated regionalism between different languages, cultures and religions. Leaders have struggled for decades to find a rallying cry, a common cause, to unite the country. The Liberals found one in “Orange Hitler.”

For weeks, Canadians were bombarded with stories about President Trump’s plans to annex Canada and destroy our culture, his fascist desire for our land and resources, and the consequences of the trade tariffs. The Liberal government and media implemented a disciplined campaign of fear to stir up a spirit of hatred.

Canada was not united by a positive notion of identity or national purpose—but purely by hatred of Donald Trump.

The use of fear to mobilize Canadians into a certain mode of action was perfected during the covid-19 lockdowns of 2020–21. The media and government used the same propaganda to stir emotional thinking in Canadians. Emotions are not rational. People in a state of emotional duress or fear are much easier to manipulate.

For years, the Liberals have been the villain. They have clamped down on free speech, ruined the economy, destroyed the military, and left the country vulnerable. This election was to be a rebuke of Trudeau’s record of tyranny and destruction. But instead, through the use of manipulation and fear, Donald Trump became the villain and Mark Carney appeared as an angel of light, the savior of Canada.

This was only possible because a mass of Canadians moved away from rational thinking. This is what the Bible calls “will worship.”

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warns that will worship is the spirit of this age in his book America Under Attack:

[Adolf] Hitler believed that if you tell a big lie and repeat it often enough, people will believe it. He wrote in Mein Kampf, “[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily ….“

… We have not learned from this history as we should. Could something similar happen today? Could someone stir up a political revolution simply by repeating a blatant lie over and over and over until enough people believe it?

This is exactly what has happened in Canada. The “Orange Hitler” lie corrupted the deeper strata of Canada’s nature, appealing to fear and hatred. Mr. Flurry continues: “Hitler said: ‘What you tell people in the mass in a receptive state of fanatic devotion will remain. Words received under a hypnotic influence are radical and impervious to every reasonable explanation.’ … You must come to recognize how this same spirit saturates the radical left in American politics.”

This is the same spirit of the radical left in Canadian politics, now led by Mark Carney: will worship. “This is a terribly dangerous trend,” continues Mr. Flurry, “people using lies to achieve political ambitions, to impose a radical agenda on others, and to destroy people’s lives.” Blinded by a spirit of hatred and fear, most Canadians haven’t thought about the consequences of Carney’s agenda.

Trans-Atlantic Realignment

“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” declared Carney in his victory speech. “The system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that while not perfect has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades, is over.”

This is Carney’s signature policy: breaking away from the United States. His victory speech was akin to a wartime speech, defining the nation’s enemy as Donald Trump.

Carney’s first foreign trip was not to Washington, D.C., as is tradition, but to France. In fact, French President Emmanuel Macron had sent Carney an invitation before he was even sworn in as prime minister. Why France? It was a signal of who will be Canada’s main future partner in trade and politics.

“Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday in France,” reported the Canadian Press on March 17. “Making opening remarks in Paris before a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Carney stressed both countries’ shared values of sovereignty, solidarity and sustainability. ‘Those are values that we hold dear, and unite us,’ he said, noting that the French language defines the identity and culture in each country.”

Carney stated that French values, culture and identity define both Canada and France. That is a radical statement. While the French are one of the founding peoples of Canada, Carney is not merely stating a historical fact: He is signaling that Canada has more in common with Europe than the U.S.

While many Canadians are cheering this strategy as a brilliant counterstroke against President Trump, few are thinking through the repercussions and real intentions of these decisions. What does the future hold for Canada? How will this trans-Atlantic realignment affect your life?

The Trumpet has been warning for nearly 100 years about the dangerous rise of a European superpower, the seventh resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire (read our book The Holy Roman Empire in Prophecy to learn more). This empire is rising in Europe right now, and it is prophesied to bring about the downfall of the U.S. and British peoples.

Canada already has a trade agreement with the European Union and is part of nato. What would a deeper relationship with Europe look like? Could Canada become a proxy of the Holy Roman Empire?

Carney has put the wheels in motion for Canada to be part of Europe’s aggressive rearmament: “In an effort to pivot away from Canada’s over-reliance on the U.S., Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to Europe to build new security alliances and a new defense industrial strategy that could see European-designed fighter jets built in this country,” reported the Toronto Star. “Carney said he discussed Canada’s participation in the ‘rearm Europe’ project earlier this week with French President Emmanuel Macron, and with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, although Britain is no longer a member of the European Union.”

Carney is the perfect man for this realignment because he is a European technocrat with many close relationships with European leaders. His victory signals an important opportunity for the enemies of Donald Trump. Canada is already a base of operations for America’s adversaries, like China, to use as a backdoor into the superpower. Canada could become the front line of the trade war between Trump, China and Europe.

The Bible prophesies in Isaiah 23 that a “mart of nations” will launch an aggressive and successful trade war against the United States. This conglomerate will include Germany, Europe and China. Will it include Canada? Carney’s victory makes Canada a dagger aimed at the heart of the American superpower.

Elections have consequences.

Canada’s Cross-examination

Donald Trump played a critical role in this election, but not in the way most Canadians realize. Ever since Trump has returned to the presidency, Canada has been on trial, sitting in the hot seat of cross-examination. How Canada has reacted to the tariffs and Trump is our testimony, our deposition of who we are, and the contents of our character. As we have been examined from every angle, an ugly truth has begun to emerge.

The state of our nation, our finances, our thinking, our unity and our character has been exposed under the fiery examination of our Creator. By using the pressure of the tariffs and annexation, this election has exposed the will worship, the spirit of hatred and our foolishness. This is how God describes our nation in Isaiah 1:5-6, and He wants Canadians to see the ugly truth.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end the generational oppression of the Liberal Party establishment. God intervened to push Trudeau out of power. And what did we choose? Canada chose the warm embrace of its oppressors. Instead of choosing change and repentance, Canada chose the familiar tyranny of the radical left.

This illustrates the great hope of God’s master plan. The way of man is the way of hatred, and trusting in a man is a curse! God is proving to every Canadian, and indeed to all humanity, that man cannot rule over man. Canada is a great nation, but without God, it will end in failure. Very soon, the righteous Judge, Jesus Christ, will return and replace the elections of hate with the path to peace, prosperity and unity. While the governments of man fail, we have hope in the future government of God. This hope is explained in our free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.