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The Canada Liberal Party in power elected Mark Carney as a new chief and therefore Prime Minister, creating a confrontation between the former central banker and the American president Donald Trump.
Sunday afternoon, the Liberal Party announced that Carney had won the competition to replace Justin Trudeau, who resigned from his functions as a leader in January after months of intestine struggles and bad polls.
However, the celebrations of Carney and its team in Ottawa will be short -lived because Canada faces a trade war with its neighbor in the South. Trump has threatened to take large prices on Canada imports and narrated that the country will become the 51st state of the United States.
In the end, the race was not close. Carney won with 131,674 votes, 86%, before the former Trudeau finance minister Chrystia Freeland with 11,134.
Carney said the party will continue budgetary responsibility and social justice while trying to unite Canada.
“My commitment to you and all Canadians is to build a stronger Canada for everyone,” he said.
Carney said his government would find new trade relations with “reliable partners” and immediately eliminate the “carbon divide” and capital gains tax.
“My government will keep the prices until the Americans show us respect,” he said.
Carney should immediately replace Trudeau, who was at the Liberal Party event on Sunday.
During the campaign, Carney said he would call an election shortly after winning first place to obtain a mandate from the Canadian people to combat Trump's tariff battle.
“Carney has an international profile and an undeniable gravity when it comes to dealing with economic issues, although he has no electoral experience,” said Dimitry Anastakis, professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
The regular attacks of President Trump against Canada – threatening to annex it and place prices on his wood, his dairy products and his steel – has invigorated A liberal party facing an almost determined election defeat.
Carney said on Sunday that Canada “would never be part of America in any way.”
“We have to build a new economy and new trade relations,” he added.
Trudeau has taken the scene to extend applause. He said Canadians faced “an existential challenge from our neighbors”, referring to President Trump's attacks and pricing threats.
“We are a diplomatic country when we can, but fight when we owe it.”
Carney campaigned that he was a veteran of crisis management best suited to manage Trump's hostilities, highlighting his time as governor of the Central Bank of Canada during the 2008 global financial crisis, then governor of the British Central Bank throughout Brexit.
The polls show that the Liberal Party with Carney at the helm reduced the conservative advance before this year's elections.
“Two months ago, being the liberal leader was like a dead end,” said David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, a survey company based in Ottawa.
“Thanks to Trump, Mark Carney will emerge as the next PM with almost a chance to launch pieces to make the unthinkable, leading the Liberals to their fourth consecutive victory,” he said.
For several years, the conservative party and the leader of the opposition Stone had to easily win a majority government in the next elections. But Trump and Carney as PM in Canada have changed this trajectory.
On Wednesday, a survey of Angus Reid Institute reported that 43% of Canadians thought that Carney was going to face Trump better, against 34% who chose Hairyvre.
Carney, a 59 -year -old father of four daughters, is committed to “building the strongest G7 economy” and “reforming the government and the tax system” with new incentives to build and invest.
Rumors about Carney's interest in becoming Prime Minister intended to be at the end of last year while the Trudeau government has trampled in the polls on its immigration policies, the cost of living and the affordability of housing.
Carney recently resigned from his post as president of Brookfield Asset Management This contains nearly $ 1 TF of dollars of assets under management. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bloomberg and the UN Special sent for climate action and finance and spent more than a decade to Goldman Sachs.
He has sworn to reduce all his business ties and put his important asset portfolios in a trust if he became Prime Minister.
Trudeau's release is released at a time of renewal of patriotism and Canadian unit because of Trump's regular attacks and pricing threats.
The Angus Reid Institute said on Friday that their survey had shown that Trudeau will remain memories for the legalization of marijuana, its successful response from COVID-19 and the expansion of the social security net thanks to the children's service and dental care of Canada.
“At the other end of the spectrum, they consider immigration policy, the treatment of the inflation crisis / cost of living and the federal tax on carbon, like the greatest failures,” he said.
