The Canadian Liberal party on Sunday selected Mark Carney as the next Prime Minister of the country and the former central banker lost no time to take a stand against US President Donald Trump.
According to the final Tally, 59 -year -old Carney won 85.9 percent ballot in the Liberal Party leadership vote.
In the coming days, Carney will take over from the outgoing party leader Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but he may not have a long job.
Canada should have an election by October but Carney can call a snap pole well within weeks. The current elections placed opposition conservatives as a minor favorite.
In his victory speech for party supporters, Carney warned that the United States under Trump was demanding to confiscate the control of Canada, an attempt he said that he should lose.
“Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,” Carney described a boost crown in Ottawa after the declaration of results.
Trump “Canadian workers, families and businesses are attacking. We can’t let him succeed.”
Carney, who previously led both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, defeated his main challenger, former Deputy Prime Minister of Trudeau, Kristia Freeland, who took over several senior cabinet positions in the Liberal government which were first selected in 2015.
Since entering the Liberal Leadership Race, Carney has said that he is the best candidate to protect Canada against Trump’s attacks.
The US President has repeatedly talked about enacting Canada and throwing bilateral trade, in the lifetime of the Canadian economy, in anarchy with circular tariff functions that he has since taken over in various directions.
Giving the address of a farewell to party supporters in a hall in Ottawa before the announcement of his successor, Trudeau said, “Canadians face an existent challenge from our neighbor.”
‘Most serious crisis’
At the party meeting, Carney pro -Lazminda Longkins told AFP that repeated music about Trump’s repeated music about making Canada a 51st American state was “a blessing in disguise”.
“We are very united … We have a common enemy,” 71 -year -old said before the declaration of results.
Greg McDeren, who refused to say who he supported, agreed that the party emerges tightly by a vote focused on Trump.
“This is a serious time, and I think people have taken this leadership race very seriously,” McCorn said wearing a hockey jersey.
Carney has argued that he is an ideal counter for Trump’s disintegration, reminding voters that he led the Bank of Canada through the 2008–2009 financial crisis and carried forward the Bank of England through turbulance after the 2016 Brexit vote.
Data released from the Angus Reed Polling firm on Wednesday suggests that Canadians see Carney as a favorite alternative to encounter against Trump, possibly offering liberals to promote opposition conservatives.
Forty -five percent of the respondents stated that they trusted Carney the most to deal with Trump, with 34 percent of Tory leader Pierre Pilevere.
Before Trudeau announced his plans to resign in January, liberals were led to an electoral wipeout, but the leadership change and the impact of Trump have tightened the race dramatically.
“I think we were written about four months ago, and now we are right, where we should be,” former MP Frank Belis, who ran for leadership, told the AFP in Ottawa.
Not a politician?
Carney created a fortune as an investment banker in Goldman Sachs before entering Canadian Civil Services.
Since leaving the Bank of England in 2020, he has worked as a United Nations messenger who is working to invest the private sector in climate -friendly technology and has played private sector roles.
He never served in Parliament nor organized an elected public office.
Analysts say their unused campaign skills may prove to be an obligation against a orthodox party that is already running an attack advertisement, accusing Carney of transferring positions and misrepresenting his experience.
The 59 -year -old has portrayed himself as a new voice by Trudeau, which he has said that he has not paid enough attention to the creation of Canada’s economy.
In the coming days, Trudeau and Carney Canadian Governor General Mary Simon – King Charles III’s official representative in Canada – who will work with the leader forming the government.
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