Mark Carney, a former central banker, swept through the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday and will become Prime Minister at a critical time for the country, which faces threats to his economy and his sovereignty of President Trump.
Carney, who was never elected in the public service, was governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 global financial crisis and governor of the Bank of England during Brexit. He was also a prosperous banker in the private sector, amazing an important personal fortune.
He dominated the liberal leadership race, guaranteeing a decisive victory. But because the party does not order a majority in Parliament, Mr. Carney will soon have to call a general election, in which the Liberals will be confronted with the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Hairyvre.
The election of Mr. Carney marks the end of Justin Trudeau’s mandate, a decade as Prime Minister. The popularity of Mr. Trudeau had been embittered, many blame him for the cost of heavy living in Canada, soil housing costs, the overwhelmed health system and other misfortunes.
Trump’s threats are looming.
Mr. Trump’s shadow hung on to the festive rally of the Liberal Party in Ottawa for the elections to Sunday leadership. His full -speed rates on Canadian goods are already harming the economy, and his frequent declarations on the creation of Canada the 51st state have made most of the public.
Mr. Trudeau captured the mood in his emotional farewell speech, just before the announcement of Mr. Carney’s victory. “It is a determining moment the nation,” he said. “Democracy is not given. Freedom is not a fact. Even Canada is not a fact. »»
In his own speech, Mr. Carney identified two key antagonists while he is preparing to take office and direct his party in the elections: Mr. Trump and Mr. Hairyvre.
“Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer,” said Carney. “The plan of Pierre Hairy will leave us divided and ready to be conquered, because a person who loves the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, will not hold his head.”
Carney sees “Dark Days”.
Carney was swept away by management, winning 85.9% of the approximately 152,000 votes expressed by members of the Liberal Party.
Unlike the “sunny ways”, Mr. Trudeau promised when he became Prime Minister in 2015, Mr. Carney underlined the clouds on the horizon, coming from the management of Washington.
“I know that these are dark days, dark days caused by a country in which we can no longer trust,” said Carney.
Mr. Carney, who is considered a centrist technocrat, has revised some of his main campaign promises, including the immediate elimination of the widely criticized carbon tax of Mr. Trudeau and the inversion of an increase in taxes on capital gains. Mr. Carney’s campaign focused mainly on the reorientation of Canada’s economy, which was weakened by inflation and low productivity.
“I am above all a pragmatist,” he told party members. “When I see something that doesn’t work, I’m going to change it.”
Although Mr. Carney spent a large part of his career in the eyes of the public as chief of two central banks in Canada, he is a less known figure than Chrystia Freeland, the former finance minister who ended a second from the liberal leadership race.
But he will soon be pushed into the battle against Mr. Trump, defending Canada against the Caustic Critics of the American President and the various rates he threatened to impose.
Trudeau offers an emotional farewell.
When Mr. Trudeau was elected in 2015, promising to inaugurate Canada in an optimistic era, he became the telegenic face of world progressivism.
Sunday, in a speech considered as a book greenhouse in his stay in power, Mr. Trudeau tried to offer a message full of hope, but he also said Sobly that Canada was confronted with an “existential challenge” of his neighbor. He clearly said he is considering Trump’s threats to annex Canada as a serious mortal.
Faced with this challenge, Mr. Trudeau said: “Canadians show what makes us Canadians; Not by defining ourselves by whom we are not, but by proudly kissing who we are. »»
Mr. Trudeau started his remarks with tears in his eyes after an introduction of his daughter, Ella-Grace Trudeau, 16. “My brothers and I have shared our father with you for 12 years,” she said. “Now we put it back.”
The elections have been transformed.
Mr. Carney, who does not hold a seat in Parliament, should be sworn in as Prime Minister at the beginning of this week.
He will soon face Mr. Hairyvre, a career politician who ordered a two -digit lead in the liberals of opinion polls just a few months ago.
But Mr. Trump’s bellicosity upset the race. Mr. Poilievre was injured by a perception that he is ideologically aligned with the American president, and the surveys show that voters believe that Mr. Carney is a better choice to make it.
Mr. Poilievre, who had tirelessly cornered the Liberals to have “broken” Canada, has now been a “Canada first” message while he is trying to distance himself from Mr. Trump.
