Three Instant Takeaways from the 2025 Canadian Federal Election
What it is, and what it most certainly is not - free from mainstream media bias, narratives, and otherwise regularly scheduled nonsense.

CAPT. SETH KESHEL (https://substack.com/@realskeshel)
APR 29, 2025

Last night, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a banker who is about as Canadian as a kangaroo, declared victory as his Liberal Party took 168 electoral districts, compared to just 144 for Conservatives (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/28/mark-carney-wins-canada-election/83327628007/). While not a blowout victory by any means, it marks a major turnaround from the beginning of the year, when Conservatives were expected to take back control after a full decade in the wilderness. Ironically, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who tried to talk tough to Donald Trump before the election, lost his own seat in Carleton.
The Liberals lead the “popular vote” by just 2.1%, or just over 400,000 ballots, as of this writing. Keep in mind, when viewing the map below, that red doesn’t equate to the American variant of political map-shading red, which would symbolize non-leftist victory for Republicans. Carney’s Liberals are shaded in Red, and Conservatives are shown in blue.
There are lots of opinions over last night’s results, but not much objective analysis floating around. Most of the media are gloating about this being bad for Trump, which should tell you to dig deeper into what the global spin of this debacle is. Here are the top three takeaways for you, my valued international audience:

I. American Government Deals with American Issues
The media say this stunning turn of fortunes in Canada, where it once appeared Liberals were dead in the water, is directly owed to President Trump’s overbearing tariffs and continued rhetoric about making Canada the 51st American state. Maybe they are right.
But does it really matter? The American government is supposed to deal with the issues impacting American citizens, and when industry and jobs are harmed because of our trade relationship with other nations, actions are warranted no matter what the impact on other countries turns out to be. China is busy building a massive Navy and constructing makeshift islands in the South China Sea as part of their plan for global domination. Their actions create corresponding political actions in the impacted countries. Do you see the mainstream media jumping on them for the ripple effect they create throughout world politics? The fact is, politics has always been a reactive exercise in which current events from all over the world impact the vote of a given nation.
Many loyal readers of Captain K’s Corner hail from Canada, so none of what I write here is intended to rub salt in any wounds. In fact, I’ll bet Elizabeth Nickson is going to say I’m taking it too easy on the ridiculous political leanings of our northern neighbors; nevertheless, national governments exist to do business on behalf of their own people. Our country should still do what it wants and needs to do regardless of what it does to swing results elsewhere. The media would sing a different tune about these results if Trump’s actions had, in reverse, spawned a massive right-wing populist uprising than a small left-wing one.

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