Canadians vote in election dominated by Trump’s trade war and bluster

Elections Canada signage is seen as voters arrive at a polling station (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadians are voting on whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power by picking new Prime Minister Mark Carney or hand control to the opposition Conservatives and their populist leader Pierre Poilievre.

But the election is also a referendum on US President Donald Trump.