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Canada’s governing Liberal Party selected Mark Carney as the new leader and prime minister of the country and set up an allusion between the former central banker and the US President Donald Trump.
The party announced on Sunday that Carney had won the competition to replace Justin Trudeau, the stepped down as the leader In January after months of fighting and bad surveys.
“There is someone who tries to weaken our economy: Donald Trump,” said Carney in his victory speech when he beat the “unjustified tariffs” imposed by the US president, who said Canada was to be the 51st state of the USA.
“He attacks Canadian families, workers and companies and we can’t be successful,” added Carney.
The arriving prime minister said that his government would find new trade relationships with “reliable partners” and promise to maintain retaliation duties in the United States, “until the Americans show us respect,” he said.
In the end, the race for the party leadership was not tight. Carney won with 131,674 votes or 86 percent before Trudeau’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland on 11.134.
Carney said the party would take on tax responsibility and social justice and the same Canada. “My promise to you and all Canadians is to build a stronger Canada for everyone,” he said.
He is immediately expected to replace Trudeau, who was at the Liberal Party event on Sunday.
During the campaign, Carney stated that shortly after winning the top positions, he would call an election to secure a mandate of the Canadian people to fight Trump’s tariffs against the tariffs.
“Carney has an international profile and an undeniable gravitas in dealing with economic affairs, although he has no election experience,” said Dimitry Anastakis, professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Trump’s regular attacks on Canada – threatens to place it and to place it on wood, milk and steel – to place it on wood, milk and steel The liberal party revitalizedwhich was faced with defeat before an almost deputy election.
Carney said on Sunday that Canada “would not be part of America in any way” and added: “We have to build a new economy and new trade relationships.”
Carney was committed to being a veteran of crisis management that was best suited for the administration of Trump’s enemy attitude, and emphasized his time as the governor of the Canadian Central Bank during the global financial crisis in 2008, at that time the Great Britain Central Bank -Gouveerneur in the entire Brexit.
Surveys show that the liberal party has limited the lead of conservatives before this year’s elections.
“Two months ago, it was like a dead end to be a liberal leader,” said David Coletto, Managing Director of Abacus Data, an election company based in Ottawa. “Thanks to Trump, Mark Carney, as the next prime minister, will be created with almost a coin -throw chance to make the unthinkable, which leads the liberals to their fourth election victory in a row.”
The conservative party for several years Under Pierre Poilievre It was expected that he can easily form a majority government in the next elections. But Trump and Carney as Canada’s prime minister have changed this trajectory.
A survey by Angus Reid Institute reported on Wednesday that 43 percent of Canadians thought that Carney was best against Trump, compared to 34 percent, who chose Poilievre.
Carney has undertaken to “build the strongest economy in the G7” and “to reform the government and the tax system”, with incentives for the structure and investment.
The rumors about Carney’s interest in becoming prime minister increased at the end of last year, as Trudeau’s government in the surveys about their politics to immigrate, the cost of living and the affordability of living space.
Carney recently resigned as chairman of Brookfield Asset Management, who is nearby $ 1TN in managed assets. He was also chairman of the Board of Directors of Bloomberg and the UN special representative for climate management and finance and spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs.
He swore to shorten all of his corporate relationships and to trust his asset sports folios when he became prime minister.
