In the midst of a generational crisis in Canadian relations with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday chose an unprecedented technocrat with deep experience in financial markets to replace Justin Trudeau as a party leader and premiere in the country and take over President Trump.
Mark Carney, 59, who operated the Canada Bank through the Global Financial Crisis 2008 and Bank England via Brexit, but who was never elected to duty, won the race for leadership against his friend and former Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland on Sunday.
He won the stunning 85.9 percent of the votes given by members of the Liberal Party. More than 150,000 people voted, according to the party leaders.
“America is not Canada. And Canada will never, never, be part of America in any way, form or shape, “Mr. Carney said in his speech on Sunday night an electric pile of party believers, addressing Mr. Trump’s constant threat to want to make Canada 51.”
“So Americans shouldn’t go wrong,” Mr. Carney added. “In the store, such as in hockey, Canada will win.”
He is expected to sworn as the Prime Minister quickly, at the beginning of this week, officially ending Era Trudeau. His first and brightest challenge will be to manage the threat from Mr. Trump to the Canadian economy and sovereignty.
But since Mr. Carney has no place in Parliament, he is expected to call the federal elections shortly after he swore as a prime minister. In this election, Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the conservative party, will face the election.
It is a key moment to take a wheel in Canada, a member of the NATO and Group 7 of industrialized nations and other largest countries in the world.
Mr. Trump put his thumb on Canadian politics, and again the search for tariffs against Canadian goods, which threatens to crush the economy, and his threatening comments about annexation.
Mr. Trudeau summarized the mood in his party, and much of the Canadian society, speaking at the Convention on the Liberal Party for worshiping an audience in Ottawa just before his successor was announced.
“This is the moment that defines the nation. Democracy is not given. Freedom is not given,” Mr. Trudeau said. “Even Canada is not given.”
Mr. Carney said he supported the retaliation of the tariff that Canada adopted. “My government will keep our tariffs until Americans show us respect,” he said.
The Canadian voters suggested to the researchers of the opinion that who could best counteract Mr. Trump was a key question that led the choice of Mr. Carney and future decisions in federal elections.
The federal elections must be held until October in accordance with the Canadian rules. The conservative party he was leading Mr. PoilievreHe has long held a lead of 20 points across liberals at the polls, but the gap has been closing since Mr. Trudeau announced his resignation and Mr Trump started moving against Canada.
AND latest polling station It suggests that most respondents would choose Mr. Carney over Mr. Poilievre if he led the Liberal Party to the polls. The polls also show that the Canadians would rather be negotiated with Mr. Trump over Mr. Poilievre with Mr. Trump. Mr. Poilievre has suffered a serious backlog on the polls, because some voters consider him too close to Mr. Trump.
And on Sunday night, Mr. Carney quickly turned to the rhetoric of the federal election campaign to attack Mr. Poilievre, throwing him as deprived of experience in the real world and admiring too much to Mr. Trump to challenge him.
“Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan for division and conquest. The Pierre Poilievre plan will leave us divided and ready to conquer,” he said. “Because the person who worships on the altar of Donald Trump will kneel in front of him and not stand toward him.”
The experience of Mr. Carney in resolving the main crises as a technocratic could give him the advantage of Mr. Poilievre in the perception of people. Mr. Poilievre, 45, was a lifelong politician without much experience outside the Canadian parliamentary coarse and jerk.
The institution of the Liberal Party gathered around the campaign of Mr. Carney against Mrs. Freeland, former top Lieutenants of Mr. Trudeauu, whose resignation in December launched her own decision of Mr. Trudeau to deviate.
And it was clear that the conservative party also sees Mr. Carney as a bigger threat: she led negative ads against him, focusing on his personal wealth and decisions on investing.
It will be crucial to the question of whether Mr. Carney can be enough to distinguish himself from Mr. Trudeauu, with whom he advised and was friendly. Canadians want changes after the decades of Mr. Trudeau, and the conservative party emphasized personal and ideological connections between the two men.
Apart from Mr. Trump, Canada faces many problems that many voters are to blame Mr. Trudeauu, most importantly the crisis of accessibility, with housing care and living expenses for many Canadians.
But wider, existential problems regarding how Canada is being driven. One is how to use huge natural resources in Canada, including oil, gas and charcoal, as well as a vital ingredient in fertilizers, rare minerals and uranium needed for nuclear energy.
Mr. Carney, in the years after his career of monetary policy, appeared as a global evangelist for Green Investment, and will have to decide how to use the huge natural borrows of Canada.
Immigration was another key question for the Canadians. The country was historically open to economic migrants and refugees, but after Pandemia, Mr. Trudeau overseed the rapid growth of temporary migration in Canada to help fulfillment of labor shortcomings.
This has launched a return reaction, and migrants have been charged with the additional stress of the dysfunctional market and health system market.
In his speech about accepting, Mr. Carney also sought to look back at his liberal credentials and convince people that, despite his earning wealth in finances, he was still progressively, affected by DNA party.
“I know markets have no values, people do it,” he said. “When markets are well managed, they provide great jobs and strong growth better than anything. But markets are also indifferent to human suffering and are blind to our biggest needs, “he added.
