Carney's Liberals sweep Canada by-elections as US trade war rages

MONTREAL: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's party swept to victory in special elections on Monday (Aug 31), boosting the leader's parliamentary majority as a trade war with the United States escalates.Carney's Liberal Party secured three seats, taking the district of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in French-speaking Quebec from the opposition Conservatives, and two other districts in Ontario and British Columbia that were previously held by the Liberals.Carney congratulated the winning candidates in a post on X, saying that voters had "placed their trust" in the government "at this consequential time for Canada.""Canada is being tested in a changing world, and Canadians are up for it," he wrote. Relations between former close allies the United States and Canada have soured after trade talks colla