Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has declared victory in the country’s general election seen as one of the most consequential in its history after his win Mark Carney addressed directly what many Canadians see as an almost existential threat posed by their North American neighbor first though here’s the moment that the Liberals realized their party had won the election the Liberal Party were well behind in the polls just three months ago but that was before Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as leader and US President.
Donald Trump upended relations and became the defining issue of the campaign so here’s Mr carney’s victory speech in which he directly addresses what he calls America’s betrayal as I’ve been warning for months America wants our land our resources our water our country never but these are not these are not idle threats president Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us that will never that will never ever happen but we But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.
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there is also for me as I stand before you this evening humility in recognizing that while many have chosen to place your trust in me trust in the Liberal Party millions of our fellow citizens preferred a different outcome and my message to every Canadian is this no matter where you live no matter what language you speak no matter how you voted I will always do my best to represent everyone who calls Canada home now although Mark Carney’s Liberal Party have won it still remains too close to call whether he’ll secure a majority in.
parliament if not he’ll have to rely on other parties to govern in his concession speech the leader of the opposition Conservative Party Pierre Polyp congratulated Mr dana but also made clear that he wouldn’t abandon his electoral base we hear your stories we will carry those stories with us into parliament we will not forget the people for whom we work and for whom we fight every day now I know that some of you might be disappointed that change did not get over the finish line tonight change takes time most of all it requires that.
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we never give up because our people and our country are worth fighting for well our chief international correspondent Lee Ducet is in Ottawa and she gave us a sense of what was happening what an extraordinary moment in Canadian political history the Liberal Party which only months ago was trailing in the polls by double digits led by a prime minister a former banker who until months ago had no political experience has surged ahead in these polls winning the Liberals a fourth year in office and Mark Carney uh the mandate.
to be the next prime minister of Canada and what unthinkable turnaround and it is a measure of this moment an election where the person whose name wasn’t on the ballot President Donald Trump transformed Canada’s political landscape not just the swinging tariffs he’s imposed but also the continuing threat to turn Canada into the 51st state has galvanized Canadians have caused some Canadians to change their vote usual voting loyalties in order to put in charge of this country a 60-year-old economist and former banker who they.
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believe is the man to solve the crisis of their lifetime that’s how Mark Carney put it in his victory speech though while he thanked all of his supporters he also mentioned several times that he would be the prime minister for all Canadians recognizing that there were millions who didn’t vote for him his main challenger Pierre Pym of the Conservatives still did extraordinarily well in this poll still got a very high percentage of the popular vote mark Carney knows that that is going to be something he’s going to have to contend.
with so he mentioned this and he also mentioned of course repeatedly the need to take on that threat from across the border but he will have to deal with the problems from within as well so he may soon find out that while he’s set himself up as a problem solver that the problems and crises confronting a banker are of a totally different order in many ways than those confronting a prime minister who has to be accountable to to the people and to a country which has its own internal barriers to trade and its own longstanding regional tensions.
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which at times have threatened to pull this country apart le dessert there in Ottawa let’s pick up on some of what Lee was saying there with Dr Graeme Young head of social and public policy at the University of Glasgow and Dr. young you’re also an expert in Canadian politics what a difference three months make how much of this do you think is it the Carney effect replacing Justin Trudeau or how much is it Donald Trump can you even quantify it no I think that’s difficult to quantify i think that this election.
was very much looking like it was going to be about cost of living about the cost of h housing about grocery bills being high all of these things that we are seeing across the rich world at the moment Donald Trump came in and Donald Trump.
