Mark Carney, ex-central banker, to become Canada's next prime minister
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Via: perrie-halpern • 2 weeks ago • 34 commentsBy: The Associated PressBy The Associated Press
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TORONTO — Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada's next prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader Sunday as the country deals with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threat, and a federal election looms.
Carney, 59, replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation in January but remains prime minister until his successor is sworn in in the coming days. Carney won in a landslide, winning 85.9% of the vote.
Carney navigated crises when he was the head of the Bank of Canada and when in 2013 he became the first noncitizen to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694. His appointment won bipartisan praise in the U.K. after Canada recovered from the 2008 financial crisis faster than many other countries.
The opposition Conservatives hoped to make the election about Trudeau, whose popularity declined as food and housing prices rose and immigration surged.
Trump's trade war and his talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state have infuriated Canadians, who are booing the American anthem at NHL and NBA games. Some are canceling trips south of the border, and many are avoiding buying American goods when they can.
The surge in Canadian nationalism has bolstered the Liberal Party's chances in a parliamentary election expected within days or weeks, and Liberal showings have been improving steadily in opinion polls."We have made this the greatest country in the world and now our neighbors want to take us. No way," Carney said.
After decades of bilateral stability, the vote on Canada's next leader now is expected to focus on who is best equipped to deal with the United States.
Carney has picked up one endorsement after another from Cabinet ministers and members of Parliament since declaring his candidacy in January. He is a highly educated economist with Wall Street experience who has long been interested in entering politics and becoming prime minister, but he lacks political experience.
The other top Liberal leadership candidate was former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Trudeau told Freeland in December that he no longer wanted her as finance minister, but that she could remain deputy prime minister and the point person for U.S.-Canada relations. Freeland resigned shortly after, releasing a scathing letter about the government that proved to be the last straw for Trudeau.
Carney is expected to trigger an election shortly afterward. Either the new Liberal party leader will call one, or the opposition parties in Parliament could force one with a no-confidence vote later this month.
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As a proud born and bred Canadian who will never give up his citizenship and passport no matter where he is in the world I am really happy to see this.
Maybe Canada should also learn to defend itself and have reciprocal trade tariffs, as long as they want to go their own way. If not, it is time to close the border, stop the drugs and end the one-way trade deals.
But how will guns come north that way ... ?
Back to trade, the average Canadian spends give or take 11,500$ on US imports; the average american 1,700$ on Canadian imports. Amazingly we are not the ones bitching.
As to who stops what, what is the US doing to stop illegal guns entering Canada? ... oh that's right it's Canada's job to protect against that flow .... @!@
And gee, over the weekend Canadian border guards save a family of 4 crossing in from the USA from freezing to death ... great job y'all doin'! Phucking bunch of whiney navel gazers.
Only someone with historical myopia could posit such nonsense.
How quickly they forget the war of 1812 and the Canadians repulsing several American attacks against Montreal,
Washington burning in 1814, etc.
Soon the world will be of two camps , one that is submissive to Trump ,and one that thinks he is the worlds biggest asshole.
You have to choose.
You forgot one additional depth of submission. "One that is submissive to Trump, who by all indications is submissive to Putin, and one that thinks he and his Russian sugar daddy are the worlds biggest gaping assholes".
Putin, Putin. Why the obsession?
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Perhaps because I'm watching my government abandon an ally and capitulate to Putin for no other reason than a bunch of whiny white nationalist bigots who have said they'd rather be Russian than Democrat (which I fully support, they should get the FUCK out of America if they love Russians so much), who are supporting and empowering a small vile genocidal maniac who has been assassinating or arresting political opponents, rigging elections, messing with our elections and invading a country completely unprovoked and killing tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who used to be our ally and trading partner and a fellow western democracy. I think that warrants substantial concern.
Those damned whiny white nationalists!
Well, this has been very informative.
You're welcome. I understand that for some it's difficult to see the fact forest through all the rightwing media conservative trees that apparently prevent those within from being exposed to facts and reality as the rest of the rational world sees it.
Who EXACTLY has said that?
Yes the compulsive need to racialize everything is very telling. Millions of minorities oppose Ukrainian aid, but somehow they apparently don't count as people to some, I guess.
More Than 40% Of Republicans See Russia As ‘Friendly,’ Poll Finds
Russia-Ukraine Poll: 41% Of GOP Views Russia As ‘Friendly’ As Americans Think Trump Supports Moscow Over Ukraine
It's all about slogans and pictures.
Never substance.
The breakdown on that poll:
Among Republican respondents, 37% view Russia as “friendly” to the U.S. and 4% view it as an “ally,” the CBS/YouGov poll found, versus 27% who view the country as an “enemy” and 32% who see it as unfriendly.
What difference does that make?
the radical left never made up more than 20% of the population.
Don't forget about the new one.....
Pickle ball paddles
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That describes those guys in that photo and the Republican party in general quite accurately.
It isn't 1945 anymore.
The world needs to grow up.
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1984 has also come and gone.
Thanks to the 2024 election.
It's 1939 again, except this time Ukraine is on the chop block.
No, despite what you may think, Fascism is dead. In the real world of today it is Communist nations who possess nuclear weapons and threaten their neighbors.
I didn't realize that you considered America to be a Communist nation, since it possesses nuclear weapons and has been threatening its neighbours.
It should have been the only nation to possess nuclear weapons.
If that were so today, Trump wouldn't need to use economic bullying and blackmail to try to rule the world, with no MAD he could have been totally unapposed in being Emperor of the United Nations of the World. i.e. not just USA but UNW. Hail Caesar!!!
"Strength and Honor."
Strength, if backed up by the American military, but Honour?
You gave me a "Hail Caesar!!!"
I gave you the motto of the Legions.
Sorry, thought you meant America.