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U.S. President Donald Trump has been a factor in this election since before it even began. When then-finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from Justin Trudeau鈥檚 cabinet last December, she cited Trump鈥檚 economic threats against Canada and her resignation led quickly to Trudeau stepping down and everything that followed.听

Trump has put some tariffs on pause, but there are still 25 per cent tariffs against Canada鈥檚 steel and aluminum sectors and against some made-in-Canada cars and trucks. He has also threatened to raise those tariffs and hit other Canadian industries with steep tariffs.

While angling for a majority, Carney said last week that he fully expects that whoever wins will have to sit down with Trump right away.

鈥淭he Prime Minister of Canada will be sitting down with the president literally within days, and having a clear mandate will put the country in a better position for those discussions,鈥� he said to reporters in Victoria, B.C.

Carney spoke with Trump just before the election kicked off and said they agreed to meet once the election鈥檚 outcome was clear.

Trump, who was quieter than usual about Canada-U.S. relations during the campaign, spoke up on election day with another threat to Canada鈥檚 sovereignty, wrongly arguing again that the U.S. trade deficit meant the U.S. was subsidizing Canada.

鈥淎merica can no longer subsidize Canada with the hundreds of billions of dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a state!鈥� Trump posted on Truth Social.

A postal strike

The new prime minister will have to deal with a possible postal strike almost as soon as they start the job.

Last November, postal workers walked off the job for a month playing havoc with Christmas shipping and hurting small businesses across the country, until then-labour minister Steven MacKinnon stepped in and suspended the strike.

He said there was no real negotiations happening between Canada Post and its union and appointed an industrial inquiry led by arbitrator William Kaplan to take a deeper look at the problems preventing a deal.听

鈥淭he inquiry will have a broad scope as it will examine the entire structure of Canada Post from both a customer and business model standpoint, considering the challenging business environment now facing Canada Post,鈥� he said.

At the time, there were 1.65 million pieces of mail in Canada Post鈥檚 warehouse including 190,000 passports.

MacKinnon said the commission, which will report back on May 15, was about putting both side on a better footing.

鈥淚 am intervening today to make sure both parties have a solid foundation to resume negotiations and reach a mutual agreement as quickly as possible,鈥� he said at the time.

The labour disruptions came as Canada Post reached a financial tipping point. The corporation has been losing money for six years, posting annual deficits that added up to more than $3 billion.

Those losses were covered by the corporation鈥檚 savings, but they have run out and Canada Post is proposing changes like more community mailboxes or even ending daily delivery.

The G7 comes to Alberta

About six weeks after becoming or maintaining their posting as prime minister, Monday night’s winner will be welcoming world leaders to Kananaskis for the G7 summit.

This means regardless of what is happening in the Canada-U.S. relationship, Trump will be coming to Canada later this year. The NDP called for Trump to be disinvited from the summit, but that鈥檚 unlikely.

His trade war will no doubt be on the leader鈥檚 agenda, but other global hot spots like Israel and Ukraine are also likely to dominate the conversations.

When the G7 foreign ministers met in March, they welcomed the peace talks Trump had initiated between Russia and Ukraine, but said Moscow must be held accountable for violating any ceasefire.

鈥淲e emphasized that any ceasefire must be respected and underscored the need for robust and credible security arrangements to ensure that Ukraine can deter and defend against any renewed acts of aggression.鈥�

The violence has only continued since that point, with Russia firing missiles repeatedly into Ukrainian cities.

Canada has also pledged to be part of a “coalition of the willing” countries that would offer peacekeeping troops should Russia and Ukraine come to a peace agreement.听