Ottawa, Canada:
The Liberal Party of Canada chosen Mark Carney overwhelming as the next Prime Minister of the Land Sunday and the former central banker did not lose any time in taking a challenging attitude against threats from US President Donald Trump.
Carney, 59, won 85.9 percent of the ballot papers that were released in the Liberal Party Leadership mood, according to the last count.
In the coming days, Carney will take over from the departing party leader Justin Trudeau, but he may not have the job long.
Canada has to hold elections by October, but Carney could call a snap poll within a few weeks. The current polls brought the opposition conservatives as small favorites.
In his victory speech for party supporters, Carney warned that the United States wanted to grab control of Canada under Trump, an attempt that he believed to be defeated.
“The Americans want our resources, our water, our country, our country,” Carney told a noisy crown in Ottawa after the results were announced.
Trump “attacks Canadian employees, families and companies. We can’t make him succeed.”
Carney, who previously led both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, sounds his most important challenger, the former Vice Prime Minister of Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, who held various senior cabinet positions in the liberal government that was chosen for the first time in 2015.
Since entering the liberal leadership race, Carney has maintained that he is the best candidate to defend Canada against Trump’s attacks.
The US president has repeatedly spoken about the annexation of Canada and threw bilateral trade, the lifeline of the Canadian economy, in chaos with dizzying tariff actions that have been demolished in different directions since he took on.
Trudeau said a farewell address to party boats in a hall in Ottawa before his successor was announced and said, “Canadians are confronted with an existential challenge from our neighbor.”
‘Most serious crisis’
During the festive meeting, Carney supporter Lozminda LongKines AFP told that Trump’s repeated contemplations about making Canada the 51st US state “a disguised blessing” were.
“We are so united … We have a common enemy,” said the 71-year-old before the results were announced.
Greg Macachern, who refused to say who he supported, agreed that the party would come out of the mood that was tightly focused on Trump.
“This is a serious time, and I think people have taken this leadership race very, very seriously,” said Maceahern, who wore a hockey sweater.
Carney has argued that he is the ideal opponent of Trump’s disruptions and reminds the voters that he led the Bank of Canada through the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the Bank of England sent by the turbulence that followed the Brexit voting of 2016.
Data that were released on Wednesday from the polling company of Angus Reid, see that Canadians see Carney as the favorite choice to take on Trump, making the liberals a boost about the conservatives of the opposition.
Forty-three percent of the respondents said they trusted Carney the most to deal with Trump, with 34 percent support from Tory leader Pierre Poilievre.
Before Trudeau announced his plans to resign in January, the liberals went to an election deviation, but the leadership change and the influence of Trump have drastically tightened the race.
“I think we were written off about four months ago, and now we are immediately back where we should be,” former parliament member Frank Baylis, who also ran for leadership, told AFP in Ottawa.
Not a politician?
Carney earned a fortune as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before he enters the Canadian official apparatus.
Since he left the Bank of England in 2020, he has served as an envoy of the United Nations who work to make the private sector invest in climate -friendly technology and has held the functions of the private sector.
He never served in parliament or held an elected public office.
Analysts say that his non -tested campaign skills can prove to be liability against a conservative party that already carries out attack advertisements that accuses Carney of shifting positions and misunderstanding his experience.
The 59-year-old has portrayed himself as a new voice aimed by Trudeau, who, according to him, did not pay enough attention to building the Canadian economy.
In the coming days, Trudeau and Carney De Gouverneur -General Mary Simon of Canada – the official representative of King Charles III in Canada – will visit the leader to form a government.
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