Ottawa, Canada – former Governor of the Central Bank of Canada Mark Carney becomes the next Prime Minister of Canada after winning the liberal leadership race on Sunday evening. Carney told cheering supporters that “Canada will not become America in any way, shape or form.”
Carney received 86% of the votes, or 131,764 votes from the 151,899 that were cast of the nearly 400,000 party members who registered to participate in the leadership elections.
The new liberal leader told members that they had to be willing to fight “the most important election of our lives” where the “commitment has never been higher”.
He said: Canada is the largest country in the world and now our neighbors want to take us with us. Really not, “said the incoming Canadian Prime Minister who refers to the repeated wish of President Donald Trump for the US to annex Canada as the ’51st state’.
Trump -Critic Mark Carney was ready to replace Trudeau as the Canadian Prime Minister
The new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, speaks with supporters in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025 .. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
When Trump announced his rates against Canada last month, Carney issued an explanation that “Canada will not bow to a bully. We will not continue to exist as illegal American rates our employees and their families hurt. As Canadians we have to take on this challenge as a united team.”
In December, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau It is said that Mark Carney approached to serve as the Canadian finance minister, as a result of which the sitting, Chrystia Freeland, left the cabinet and released her letter of resignation in which she wrote that she and the prime minister “(herself) had found (herself) at odds over the best path ahead for Canada.”
File – Premier Justin Trudeau Waves while leaving the Salesforce offices on 8 February 2018 in San Francisco. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press Via AP, File) (AP)
Less than a month later, Trudeau announced his intention to resign as liberal leader and prime minister, in which he admitted that if he has to fight “internal fights, (he) cannot be the best option” in a general elections that are held no later than October 20.
But opposition parties have sworn to force an earlier national vote by non-confidence in the Lower House against the liberal minority government when Parliament is recalled on 24 March.
On Saturday, the Canadian Globe and Mail -newspaper reported that Carney will probably call a Snap election in the week before the resumption of the Parliament of 24 March, with a voting day on April 28 or May 5.
The new liberal leader is expected to meet Trudeau on Monday to discuss the transition that Carney and a closed cabinet will find by Friday.
Pierre Poilievre, leider van de conservatieve partij van Canada, tijdens de Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, op donderdag 11 april 2024. Premier Trudeau is het afgelopen jaar onder vuur gestoken vanwege de stijgende kosten van huisvesting van Canada, en volgt slecht in de peilingen naar de peilingen naar de peilingen naar de peilingen naar de peilingen naar The polls to the polls to the polls, which is the favorite to win the next election. (David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty images)
But regardless of the liberals who have a new leader with some momentum in the polls, the conservatives of Canada under their leader Stone Are ready for a “change of change,” said Laura Kurkimaki, who served as a deputy national campaign leader for the conservative party during the last federal elections in 2021.
“We have had a liberal government for 10 years and Canadians are tired of that,” said Kurkimaki, who also served as the main secretary of the former conservative official opposition leader in O’Toole whose party won the popular mood but not enough house seats to win the 2021 elections.
She also said that the new liberal leader would run on ‘Trudeau’s record’, and although Carney was not a member of the prime minister, he was appointed by the Liberal Party last September to be ahead of a Task Force on economic growth for Trudeau.
“The next elections will be about who will make life more affordable for Canadians,” said Kurkimaki. “What is going on in the US has an influence on that of course, and creates economic uncertainty in Canada.”
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She added that the longer Carney is waiting to mention an election, the conservatives have more time to launch their attack advertisements against him.
During an election, parties are confronted for spending limits. But before the writer is dropped to launch the election period, parties can spend as much as they want to advertise, and last year the conservatives collected more than double (about $ 29 million) than the liberals, about $ 11 million.
In an interview with The viewerPresident Trump, commentary on the leader of the conservative party, said that “Poilievre’s biggest problem is that he is not a Maga man … he is not a Trump -man at all.”
The Canadian Conservative Leader replied to xstated: “Mr. President, it’s true. I’m not a Maga.”
“I am first for Canada. Always,” Poilievre posted. “Canada has always been the best friend and ally of America. But we will never be the 51st state.”
