Mark Carney’s Liberals secure majority, calling it Canada’s ‘time to come together’

By-election wins and defections push Canada’s Liberals into majority government under the prime minister

Mark Carney has said he will govern with “humility, determination and a clear understanding of what this moment demands” after his Liberals swept three by-elections Monday evening, forging a parliamentary majority just more than a year after he took power.

Carney has achieved only the third majority government in two decades – and has done so in a highly unusual fashion, cobbling together both ballot box wins and defections from rival parties.