The first polls in the Canadian election will close within minutes, providing an indication of who will be elected prime minister and lead the fight against Donald Trump’s trade war.

Canadians will pick new Prime Minister Mark Carney or populist opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, but Monday's election is also a referendum of sorts on a non-Canadian: Donald Trump.

Canadians are voting whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power or instead hand control to the Conservatives.

Members of Donald Trump's cabinet gave conflicting messages on Sunday about whether negotiations with China over tariffs are taking place, as the Republican president has asserted. The Trump administration signaled openness last week to de-escalating a trade war between the world's two largest economies that has raised fears of recession.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday did not back President Donald Trump's assertion that tariff talks with China were under way and said he did not know if the U.S. president had talked to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China’s President Xi Jinping has not called President Donald Trump, Beijing said Monday, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary. Trump said in an interview with Time magazine that Xi had already contacted him after Trump triggered a trade war between their countries—the two largest economies in the world—with punishing tariffs.