Trump critic Mark Carney poised to replace Trudeau as Canada's prime minister

OTTAWA – Mark Carney has ne'er held elected office, but for years has been touted arsenic a aboriginal person of the Liberal Party of Canada, and if the polling goes arsenic expected, helium is the favourite to triumph his party's enactment contention connected Sunday.

Carney, the erstwhile politician of some the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and Goldman Sachs executive, is expected to triumph the contention to win Justin Trudeau arsenic some the 14th Liberal person and 24th Canadian premier curate by the party’s astir 400,000 members.

Carney precocious criticized President Donald Trump arsenic a "bully" successful a connection helium released successful effect to American tariffs being enactment connected the bluish neighbor. "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."

Canada's CBC reported Carney compared Trump to Harry Potter's Voldemort successful absorption to the president's comments connected making Canada the 51st state.

"When you deliberation astir what's astatine involvement successful these ridiculous, insulting comments of the president, of what we could be, I presumption this arsenic the benignant of Voldemort of comments… Like I volition not adjacent repetition it, but you cognize what I'm talking about."

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Mark Carney speaks astatine the Sustainable Finance conference, Nov. 28, 2024. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

More than fractional of the Liberals’ 153-member caucus successful the House of Commons has endorsed him for person implicit erstwhile Cabinet ministers Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould, arsenic good arsenic past subordinate of Parliament (MP) Frank Baylis – each 3 of whom served successful Trudeau’s government.

On fundraising, Carney has amassed the astir run contributions with $1.3 cardinal – oregon much than treble what Freeland, a erstwhile overseas affairs minister, collected past month.

Polls person besides shown that Carney is the frontrunner to go the adjacent Liberal leader. Should helium clasp that occupation and automatically go Canadian premier curate arsenic Trudeau’s successor, helium would assistance boost his party’s fortunes astatine the ballot box.

A survey by the Angus Reid Institute, released connected March 5, recovered that a Carney-led Liberal Party was lone 3 points (37%) down the authoritative absorption Conservative Party, astatine 40%. 

The results of a Leger poll, released connected March 3, reported a somewhat wider margin, with the Conservatives astatine 41% and the Liberals, with Carney arsenic leader, astatine 33%.

However, the aforesaid caller Angus Reid canvass besides recovered that 43% of Canadians judge Carney would beryllium champion suited, arsenic premier minister, to woody with Trump, compared to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, astatine 34%.

Conservative Party person Pierre Poilievre speaks during a "Spike the Hike – Axe the Tax" rally connected March 27, 2024, successful Edmonton, Alberta. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Even Poilievre has acknowledged that helium volition look the frontrunner successful the Liberal contention successful the adjacent wide election, regularly calling him "Carbon Tax Carney," with notation to the Canadian government’s user taxation connected c emissions that Carney initially supported. During his enactment run, the erstwhile cardinal slope politician said helium would regenerate it with an inducement programme that rewards Canadians for "making greener choices," specified arsenic purchasing an energy-efficient appliance.

In a Jan. 26 unfastened missive to Carney, Poilievre asked him whether helium would beryllium "any antithetic than the antheral you are trying to replace" and perpetrate to "banning immoderate anterior Trudeau curate from serving successful your Cabinet" oregon "pursue the aforesaid Trudeau agenda?"

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Norman Spector, who served arsenic main of unit to erstwhile Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, views Carney’s political-rookie presumption arsenic serving him good arsenic premier curate erstwhile dealing with the White House.

"He doesn’t commencement retired with immoderate baggage with Trump, and I deliberation that’s very, precise important," said Spector. He suggested that Carney conscionable with the president arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to code areas wherever Canada and the U.S. tin intimately collaborate, specified arsenic connected continental security.

Mark Carney officially announced his bid for the Liberal Party enactment astatine Laurier Heights Community League successful Edmonton, Canada, connected Jan. 16, 2025. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Carney cannot look to beryllium "Justin Trudeau successful a antithetic acceptable of apparel oregon with a antithetic resume," John Manley, a erstwhile Canadian Liberal lawman premier curate and concern minister, told Fox News Digital.

"He’s got to beryllium a campaigner for alteration and beryllium seen arsenic the superior dude who tin instrumentality connected Donald Trump," portion noting that the ballot-box question successful Canada has shifted from the unpopularity successful Canada of Trudeau to Trump.

No longer a subordinate of Canada's Liberal Party, Manley said Carney has "promised to determination the enactment backmost toward the halfway and marque the system his focus, and those would some beryllium welcome."

Last Wednesday, Carney said helium would region home commercialized barriers betwixt the 10 provinces and 3 territories that would grow the Canadian system by up to $140 billion.

On the aforesaid day, Trudeau and the provincial and territorial premiers agreed to bash the precise aforesaid to trim reliance connected commercialized with the U.S. successful effect to the Trump administration’s tariffs connected Canada.

Manley said the Liberals "have got to halt focusing connected individuality politics," which helium said is lone "important to a tiny set of people."

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)

"We can’t support warring taste wars. It severely wounded the Democrats successful the U.S."

He besides said Carney needs to rapidly telephone a wide predetermination earlier Parliament is scheduled to resume connected March 24. 

Should helium go Liberal person connected Sunday, Carney would besides automatically go the premier minister-designate since the Liberals pb the authorities nether Trudeau. 

The ceremonial modulation day for Carney to presume bureau has yet to beryllium determined, but helium would beryllium the archetypal Canadian premier curate to person ne'er held elected bureau and would request to triumph a spot successful the House of Commons. Therefore, the request for a nationalist ballot is besides idiosyncratic arsenic it would alteration Carney to tally successful a yet-to-be-determined riding (district) to go a subordinate of Parliament.

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Manley, who ran for the Canadian Liberal enactment successful 2003, won by erstwhile premier curate Paul Martin, said Carney volition request caller faces successful his Cabinet.

He besides sees Carney – a Harvard and Oxford universities postgraduate with a doctorate successful economics – arsenic holding an vantage implicit Poilievre successful the adjacent election.

Born successful Canada’s Northwest Territories, 59-year-old Carney was besides a longtime Goldman Sachs executive, who additionally served arsenic the United Nations peculiar envoy for clime enactment and finance.

Canada's Liberals ballot connected a caller person connected Sunday. (iStock)

By contrast, 45-year-old Poilievre has "done thing but authorities for his big life," said Manley.

The absorption person was archetypal elected arsenic a Conservative MP for an Ottawa riding successful 2004 erstwhile helium was 24.

But Manley said, "Poilievre is simply a precise effectual communicator," and Carney has to "prove that helium tin subordinate to the mean antheral connected the street."

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"Can helium entreaty to radical who elite governments, galore of whom don’t peculiarly work books – and whitethorn not adjacent work newspapers?"

"Being a palmy person contiguous requires a antithetic accomplishment acceptable than it was adjacent successful my time," helium said.