On election day, Mark Carney’s Liberals capitalized on that sentiment, scoring the party’s best result in the province in decades and pushing the Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois to the sidelines, reports Benjamin Shingler at CBC News.

Debates over Quebec identity, secularism and language were drowned out by the noise from Washington.

Now, as the provincial election kicks off today, could the U.S. president play that outsized role once again?