‘Tis the season of resurrection.

The Liberal Party of Canada, led by Mark Carney, has risen from the dead – politically speaking – and will form the next federal government in Ottawa.

This is in remarkable contrast, of course, to the harrowing fate Liberals faced under Justin Trudeau’s premiership only a few months ago, when Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were cruising to an impressive mandate.

The Liberals, unlike the cocksure Poilievre, pivoted. They dispensed with the jejune Trudeau and turned to Carney, a former banker, as their saviour.

The calculated gamble paid handsome dividends last night with the Liberals winning a fourth consecutive term, while the perpetually crestfallen Tories will return, yet again, to the purgatory of the Opposition benches.

Carney owes an electoral debt to New Democratic Party leader, Jagmeet Singh, for resisting the unrelenting pressure – inside and outside the House of Commons – to withdraw his parliamentary support for the Liberals until Trudeau succumbed to a caucus coup.

Otherwise, Poilievre would likely have prevailed had an election been called earlier.

But above all, Carney owes the deepest debt of gratitude to US President Donald Trump.

The instant Trump was restored to the Oval Office and began musing publicly about his imperial plans for Canada and its abundant natural riches, the political terrain moved, inexorably, in the Liberal Party’s favour.

Carney and his handlers understood that the only question that would determine the outcome of perhaps the most consequential election in Canada’s often-turbulent history was........

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