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Winning just one of those seats will give Carney a majority.<br \/>Polls show they are expected to pick up at least two. Carney has said that would help him deal more effectively with the trade war with the U.S. started by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is likely to secure a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government Monday, a win that would give him the ability to push through the legislative agenda he says is needed in an increasingly uncertain and divided geopolitical world.Three special elections are being held Monday in Ontario and Quebec, with two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canada&#039;s Carney set to win majority government in special elections - 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