Canada has voted for Former Central Bank Governor of Canada and Trump critic Mark Carney to be the next prime minister as he overwhelmingly won the vote to become the Liberal Party’s next leader. Current PM Justin Trudeau announced his resignation in early January. The extremely woke Trudeau has faced all sorts of controversies during his tenure and most recently has been the target of U.S. President Donald Trump, who is imposing tariffs on our neighbor to the north and laughing that it would make a great 51st state.
Carney took a defiant tone as he celebrated his victory:
Carney told cheering supporters that “Canada will never become part of America in any way, shape or form.”
Carney received 86% of the vote, or 131,764 votes of the 151,899 ones cast from the nearly 400,000 party members who registered to participate in the leadership election.
The new Liberal leader told members that they should be prepared to fight “the most important election of our lives” where the “stakes have never been higher.”
He said, Canada is the “greatest country in the world and now our neighbors want to take us. No way,” said the incoming Canadian prime minister referring to President Donald Trump’s repeated desire for the U.S. to annex Canada as the “51st state.”
Healthy relationships depend on mutual respect. Ukraine and Europe don’t respect us; they look down on us. America never had any obligation to protect Ukraine. And now we’re asking why we should continue to spend our money, and put our lives on the line, to protect Europe. pic.twitter.com/XgdfDogPfO
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 28, 2025
But it’s not necessarily party time for Carney just yet—under Canada’s head-spinning (for Americans, anyway) rules, he will soon call a special national election where he is expected to face off against conservative firebrand Pierre Poilievre. Several reports indicate Carney “will likely call a snap election the week before the March 24 resumption of Parliament, with voting day on either April 28 or May 5.”
Victory is anything but certain, as many Canadians are sick of Liberal rule and Poilievre is no pushover. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
