Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesb.

They say a week is a long time in politics.

Well, four months is an eon.

At the beginning of this year, a betting person would have put money

and possibly lots of it on the Conservative Party to win in the next Canadian election,

possibly by a landslide. At the time, the governing Liberal Party was so far behind in the polls,

they may have even struggled to come second. Four months on, and it's a completely different story.

It's victory for the Liberals and their new leader Mark Carney

and the Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, has not only lost the chance to be Prime Minister,

but has actually lost his seat in the House of Commons. This was the scene at the Liberal Party

headquarters last night as the announcements came in.

Canada's next government will be a liberal government.

It is not yet clear at this hour whether it will be a minority or majority to some of the liberals. And what went wrong for the conservatives?

And could one word answer both those questions? Is that word Trump? A short while ago,

I caught up with our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette in Ottawa. It's quite a political

turnaround. Often elections are won on domestic policy, but was this election all about foreign policy?

I don't think we can say all about foreign policy,

but it's certainly not just the tariffs imposed by President Trump, but his constant statement

saying that Canada would be better off as the 51st state talking about taking over Canada

has completely dominated the discussion in this election.

And it certainly was what triggered so many Canadians, even to turn away from their traditional

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