Canada election: Carney says he’ll ‘deliver for Canadians’ with Liberals projected to win another term

There are still too many too-close-to-call ridings for our decision desk to project whether the next Liberal government will be a minority or majority with certainty. It’s also too close in Poilievre’s longtime riding of Carleton to say whether he’s projected to win or lose there.

Elections Canada is still counting ballots, and it’s expected to be a few more hours before we can confirm whether it’s a majority or minority government.

Overall, the takeaway is that tonight’s win counts as a stunning political comeback for the Liberals given they were polling in rock-bottom territory just a few months ago. It will sting for Poilievre, who had hoped to seize on the Trudeau fatigue to bring the Conservatives back to power for the first time in a decade.

The NDP, as mentioned, is facing an existential crisis – on track to lose more than half the seats it held at dissolution and facing the loss of Singh as leader.

We’ll be back with more in a bit. In the meantime, you can find riding-by-riding counts at cbc.ca/results.

The mood is starkly different for the NDP tonight. The party is currently elected or leading in just seven ridings, down from the 24 seats it held at dissolution and short of the 12 needed to maintain official party status. It’s a disastrous result for the party, which bled support to the Liberals after Trudeau resigned.

It's no secret Carney is a big Down With Webster fan.

He closed out all his rallies with the Toronto band's 2009 song "Time to Win" and in his interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Carney was gifted the band's EP with the same name.

Well, DWW played live at the Liberal HQ tonight and CBC photographer Evan Mitsui captured Carney busting moves in a red hoodie with the band's logo on the front.

Carney, whose book is titled Values, built his speech around the value of humility.

That could have been a way of recognizing the party didn't quite have the success it was polling for several weeks of the campaign. Several projections had Carney winning a majority — a stunning turn of fortune considering the party’s dismal position months earlier.

"Over my long career, I have made many mistakes and I will make more. But I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly and to always learn from them," he said.

Carney mentioned Canada-U.S. relations several times during that speech, which formed the basis of his campaign.

"When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economy and security relationship between two sovereign nations," he said.

"It will be our full knowledge that we have many, many other options to build prosperity for all Canadians."

He reiterated his promise to make the Canadian economy less dependent on the U.S. and to reduce barriers to interprovincial trade. He said he'd work with premiers and Indigenous peoples.

People in the crowd often piped up, saying, "No! Never!" when Carney said Trump wants Canadian land.

At one point, he paused and cracked a joke at a cellphone ringing.

Carney closed out his remarks by again calling for unity, and reminding Canadians of the challenges posed by ongoing hostilities with the U.S. — the issue that he put at the heart of his campaign.

“We will build an independent future for our great country,” he said to the crowd. “Vive le Canada. Thank you very much, merci beaucoup.”

Carney spent a chunk of his address speaking to those who didn’t vote for him, saying he intends to govern for all Canadians.

He said he recognized that "millions of our fellow citizens preferred a different outcome."

“Let’s put an end to the division and anger of the past. We are all Canadian and my government will work for and with everyone,” he said.

"No matter where you live, no matter what language you speak, no matter how you voted, I will always do my best to represent everyone who calls Canada home," he said.

Carney started off by riling the crowd up: “Who's ready? Who's ready to stand up for Canada with me and who's ready to build Canada strong?”

He then congratulated other leaders for “all the work they did and their service to Canada, now and in the future.”

He also congratulated Poilievre for a “hard-fought campaign” and his “commitment to the country that we both love.”

His wife, Diana Fox Carney, is introducing him.

"Thank you for choosing my husband's vision of a positive, unified and above all a strong country," she said.

Speaking with reporters after she was projected to win her riding, the Greens co-leader said she will push to change the unofficial rules governing official party status as her first order of business when she returns to Parliament.

May said there are no official rules or laws that state 12 MPs is the threshold required to obtain official party status.

She said she wants to take this on for the NDP and convince the Speaker of the House of Commons to change this unofficial rule so there can be more representation in committees.