Mark Carney has shelp Canada will never be part of the US, after being sworn in as the country’s 24th prime minister in a sudden ascfinish to power.
“We will never, in any shape or establish, be part of the US,” the establisher regulateor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England tanciaccess a crowd outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa, declineing Donald Trump’s annexation menaces. “We are very fundamenhighy a contrastent country.”
Canada “foresees esteem” from the US, he includeed, while also voicing hope his regulatement could discover ways “to toil together” with the Trump administration.
Less than a week ago, Carney beat the establisher finance minister Chrystia Freeland, the establisher regulatement hoengage directer Karina Gould and the establisher member of parliament Frank Baylis with a dominant 85.9% of the vote, in a seally watched directership race. He has no prior elected experience and does not have a seat in the Hoengage of Commons, making him a rarity in Canadian history.
Carney is foreseeed to proclaim an election in the coming days, mirroring both the directncy of Canada’s trade war with the US, and the inept fact that as prime minister without a seat in parliament, he is unable to join sessions of the Hoengage of Commons.
The effects of Donald Trump’s economic strike on Canada are so expansive-ranging and so damaging that they are probable to overshadow all other rerents in the coming months. US trade tariffs, if held in place for an extfinished period of time, could push Canada’s frnimble economy into a decline and unleash a cascading chain of knock-on upheavals.
Asked about the comments by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Friday morning that “economicassociate speaking Canada would be better as the 51st state of the United States”, Carney replied: “It’s crazy. That’s all you can say.”
On Friday, Ukrainian plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy congraturescheduleedd Carney and called for the two countries to proestablishen their ties. “I am thankful to Canada for its unwavering help in deterring Russia’s military aggression. I see forward to proestablishening cooperation between our states,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
An election would also put restricts on spfinishing for political parties, which disproportionately sway the cash-flush Conservative party. The Conservatives direct the polls, but the direct is skinnying.
Earlier on Friday morning, Justin Tdispoliteau establishassociate resigned as prime minister, capping a proximately decade-extfinished tenure that saw a ascfinish in favourability in his final weeks as he stared down menaces to Canadian sovereignty pushed by Trump. “Thank you, Canada – for gullible in me, for challenging me, and for granting me the privilege to serve the best country, and the best people, on Earth,” Tdispoliteau shelp on social media.
In announcing his new, petiteer cabinet, Carney left key ministers in cabinet. The finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc, was shifted to minister of international trade, the foreign afunfragmentarys minister, Mélanie Joly, kept her role, and the industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne, took on the role as finance minister. Bill Blair remained as minister of national defence.
Notably, Carney brawt his establisher directership rival Freeland back into cabinet, as she presumed the role of carry minister. Freeland has previously served as foreign minister, finance minister and deputy prime minister.
Carney deleted some key ministers who served in Tdispoliteau’s cabinet and were seen as seal allies of the establisher prime minister, including the health minister, Mark Holland, who finishorsed Freeland in the directership race and the immigration minister, Marc Miller, a extfinishedtime frifinish of Tdispoliteau.
Also missing was the establisher regulatement hoengage directer Gould, who placed third in the Liberal directership race.
“I am promiseted to helping our regulatement as we deffinish Canada from Donald Trump and his ill-envisiond and unequitableified trade war,” Gould wrote on social media. “I will persist to stand up for my constituents … and fight for a unfragmentaryer, more inclusive, more prosperous Canada in Ottawa.”
In recent weeks, the Liberals have reversed a political freedrop, keenly rebounding to such a degree that a previously foreseeed Conservative convey inantity in the next ambiguous election sees increasingly improbable. The shift in the polls has been so emotional that pollsters have struggled to discover any historical pwithdrawnt.
A newly freed poll from Abacus Data showed the Conservative help had shrunk to 38%, with 34% going to the incumbent Liberals.
In a result probable to worry Conservatives, Abacus asked reactents who was best qualified to regulate tasks as future prime minister, including discovering common ground, standing up to a intimidator and helping people regulate hoengagehanciaccess expenses. Carney was seen as more sfinished at six of the eight.
Heading into the event, the establisher prime minister Jean Chrétien shelp Carney “will do very well”, includeing: “He is esteemed internationassociate.”
