{"id":128135,"date":"2025-04-28T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128135"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:15:47","slug":"polymarket-bets-on-mark-carney-win-as-canadians-head-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128135","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket bets on Mark Carney win as Canadians head to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCrypto users betting on the outcome of the snap election to determine the next Prime Minister of Canada appear to be favoring a Liberal Party victory as residents head to cast their votes.<br \/>\nAs of April 28, cryptocurrency betting platform Polymarket gave current Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party candidate Mark Carney a 79% chance of defeating Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre in the race for the country\u2019s next PM. Data from the platform showed users had poured more than $75 million into bets surrounding the race, predicting a Poilievre or Carney victory.<br \/>\nPolymarket chances favor the Liberal Party\u2019s Mark Carney over the Conservative Party\u2019s Pierre Poilievre to be the next Canadian Prime Minister. Source: PolymarketThe odds suggested by the platform, as well as those from many polls, show a nearly complete reversal of fortunes between the two candidates after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned in January. Trudeau and, by association, many in the Liberal Party, faced criticism over the handling of Canada\u2019s housing crisis and questions about how he would face US President Donald Trump\u2019s then-proposed tariffs.<br \/>\nFollowing Trudeau\u2019s resignation, Trump stepped up rhetoric disparaging Canada, repeatedly referring to the country as the US\u2019s \u201c51st state\u201d and Trudeau as its \u201cgovernor.\u201d The US President also imposed a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada in March. The policies seem to have led to increasing anti-Trump sentiment in Canada, with many residents booing the US national anthem at hockey games and making comparisons between the president and Poilievre.<br \/>\nThis is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/canada-election-mark-carney-ierre-poilievre?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCrypto users betting on the outcome of the snap election to determine the next Prime Minister of Canada appear to be favoring a Liberal Party victory as residents&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}