Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 28
Agence France-Presse: ‘Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form,’ said the 59-year-old, who will take over from Trudeau in the coming days. Carney may not have the job for long.
Canada must hold elections by October but could well see a snap poll within weeks. Current opinion polls had the opposition Conservatives as slight favourites.
Carney warned in his victory speech that the United States under Trump was seeking to seize control of Canada.
‘The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,’ he said, adding ‘these were dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust.’
‘We’re all being called to stand up for the Canadian way of life.’
Carney previously led both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. He soundly defeated his main challenger, Trudeau’s former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, who held senior cabinet positions in the Liberal government first elected in 2015.
Carney won 85.9 per cent of the nearly 1,52,000 votes cast. Freeland took just eight per cent of the vote.
Carney campaigned on a promise to stand up to Trump.
Trump has repeatedly spoken about annexing Canada and thrown bilateral trade, the lifeblood of the Canadian economy, into chaos with dizzying tariff actions that have veered in various directions since he took office.
Carney made a fortune as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before entering the Canadian civil service.
Since leaving the Bank of England in 2020, he has served as a United Nations envoy working to get the private sector to invest in climate-friendly technology and has held private sector roles.
He has never served in parliament nor held an elected public office.
