Mark Carney wins Liberal Party nomination to replace Trudeau as Canada's next PM

OTTAWA, Canada - Former Central Bank Governor of Canada Mark Carney volition go Canada’s adjacent premier curate aft winning the Liberal enactment contention connected Sunday night. Carney told cheering supporters that "Canada volition ne'er go portion of America successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."

Carney received 86% of the vote, oregon 131,764 votes of the 151,899 ones formed from the astir 400,000 enactment members who registered to enactment successful the enactment election.

The caller Liberal person told members that they should beryllium prepared to combat "the astir important predetermination of our lives" wherever the "stakes person ne'er been higher."

He said, Canada is the "greatest state successful the satellite and present our neighbors privation to instrumentality us. No way," said the incoming Canadian premier curate referring to President Donald Trump’s repeated tendency for the U.S. to annex Canada arsenic the "51st state."

TRUMP CRITIC MARK CARNEY POISED TO REPLACE TRUDEAU AS CANADA'S PRIME MINISTER

Canada's caller Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to supporters successful Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025.. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

When Trump announced his tariffs against Canada past month, Carney issued a connection that "Canada volition not bow down to a bully. We won’t basal by arsenic amerciable U.S. tariffs wounded our workers and their families. As Canadians, we request to look this situation arsenic 1 agreed team."

In December, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly approached Mark Carney to service arsenic Canadian concern minister, which caused the incumbent, Chrystia Freeland, to permission the Cabinet and publically merchandise her resignation missive successful which she wrote that she and the premier curate had "found [themselves] astatine likelihood astir the champion way guardant for Canada."

FILE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves arsenic helium leaves the offices of Salesforce connected Feb. 8, 2018, successful San Francisco. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP, File) (AP)

Less than a period later, Trudeau announced his volition to measurement down arsenic Liberal person and premier minister, successful which helium conceded that if he’s "having to combat interior battles, [he] cannot beryllium the champion option" successful a wide predetermination scheduled to beryllium held nary aboriginal than Oct. 20.

But absorption parties person vowed to unit an earlier nationalist ballot done a non-confidence question successful the House of Commons against the Liberal number authorities erstwhile Parliament is recalled connected March 24.

On Saturday, Canada’s Globe and Mail paper reported that Carney volition apt telephone a drawback predetermination the week earlier the March 24 resumption of Parliament, with voting time connected either April 28 oregon May 5.

The caller Liberal person is expected to conscionable with Trudeau connected Monday to sermon the modulation that volition find Carney and a slimmed-down Cabinet sworn into bureau by Friday.

WHO IS PIERRE POILIEVRE? CANADA'S CONSERVATIVE LEADER SEEKING TO BECOME NEXT PRIME MINISTER AFTER TRUDEAU EXIT

Pierre Poilievre, person of Canada's Conservative Party, during the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference successful Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, connected Thursday, April 11, 2024. Prime Minister Trudeau has been nether occurrence implicit the past twelvemonth owed to Canada's soaring outgo of housing, and is trailing severely successful the polls to Poilievre, who's the favourite to triumph the adjacent election.  (David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

But careless of the Liberals having a caller person with immoderate momentum successful the polls, Canada’s Conservatives nether their person Pierre Poilievre are acceptable for a "change election," said Laura Kurkimaki, who served arsenic lawman nationalist run manager for the Conservative Party during the past national predetermination successful 2021.

"We’ve had 10 years of a Liberal authorities and Canadians are bushed of that," said Kurkimaki, who besides served arsenic main caput to erstwhile Conservative authoritative absorption person Erin O’Toole whose enactment won the fashionable ballot but not capable House seats to triumph the 2021 election.

Furthermore, she said the caller Liberal person would beryllium moving connected "Trudeau’s record," and portion Carney wasn’t a subordinate of the premier minister’s government, helium was appointed past September by the Liberal Party to seat a task unit connected economical maturation for Trudeau.

"The adjacent predetermination volition beryllium astir who is going to marque beingness much affordable for Canadians," said Kurkimaki. "What’s going connected successful the U.S. impacts that, of course, and creates economical uncertainty successful Canada."

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She added that the longer Carney waits to telephone an election, the Conservatives get much clip to motorboat their attack-ads against him.

During an election, parties look spending limits. But earlier the writ is dropped to motorboat the predetermination period, parties tin walk arsenic overmuch arsenic they privation connected advertising, and the Conservatives raised much than treble (about $29 million) past twelvemonth than the Liberals, astatine astir $11 million.

In an interrogation with The Spectator, President Trump, commenting connected the Conservative enactment leader, said Poilievre’s "biggest occupation is he’s not a MAGA feline … He’s not a Trump feline astatine all."

The Canadian Conservative person replied on X, stating: "Mr. President, it is true. I americium not MAGA."

"I americium for Canada First. Always," Poilievre posted. "Canada has ever been America’s champion person & ally. But we volition NEVER beryllium the 51st state."