{"id":2412136,"date":"2025-03-10T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-is-mark-carney-canadas-next-pm-whos-itching-to-take-on-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:51:43","slug":"who-is-mark-carney-canadas-next-pm-whos-itching-to-take-on-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-is-mark-carney-canadas-next-pm-whos-itching-to-take-on-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Mark Carney, Canada&#8217;s next PM who&#8217;s itching to take on Trump? &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-is-mark-carney-canadas-next-pm-whos-itching-to-take-on-trump-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2412136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mark Carney, a former central banker, has\u200c been\u2063 elected as the new leader of \u200bthe\u200c Liberal Party of Canada, succeeding\u2064 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Carney\u200c won a landslide victory at the Liberal Leadership Event in \u2064ottawa, receiving over 85%\u2062 of votes\u2063 from the party&#8217;s internal \u200delectorate. Emphasizing\u200c a \u2063strong stance against U.S.President Donald\u200d Trump, Carney characterized the U.S. as\u200c a country Canada can no longer trust, citing unjustified tariffs affecting Canadian families \u2063and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Carney\u2064 does not currently hold a seat in parliament, he plans to confront the challenges \u2062posed by Trump\u2019s administration \u200bhead-on. his leadership draws \u2063parallels to historical transitions in Canadian politics and he \u200dfaces the pressure of possibly calling an election sooner \u200cto \u2064secure a public mandate. Carney&#8217;s critics, especially Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, argue that his election marks a continuation of\u200b Trudeau&#8217;s policies,\u200c suggesting \u200bit will\u2062 invite further aggression \u200dfrom Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these criticisms, Carney\u200c positions himself as a new voice for Canada, indicating a commitment \u2062to protect the nation\u2019s interests \u2062against external pressures. Canadian Prime\u200d Minister Trudeau has expressed concerns over Trump&#8217;s intentions regarding \u2064Canada, worried about economic pressures \u2062aimed \u200bat undermining Canadian sovereignty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trudeau successor Mark Carney is parliamentary outsider itching to take on Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2030373\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former central banker Mark Carney is set to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Justin-Trudeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/a> after securing a clear mandate from the Liberal Party to take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Canada<\/a> to the mat against the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary outsider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341947\/mark-carney-wins-canada-election-become-trudeaus-successor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">won a landslide victory<\/a> at the Liberal Leadership Event in Ottawa on Sunday, receiving 131,674 votes, over 85% of his party&rsquo;s internal electorate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3342299\/crews-safe-north-sea-collision-between-vessels\/\">Crews safe in fiery North Sea collision between vessels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341541\/four-times-minor-diplomatic-spats-had-a-major-geopolitical-impact\/\">Four times minor diplomatic spats had a major geopolitical impact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341991\/canada-conservative-leader-paints-mark-carney-trudeau-devotee\/\">Canada&#8217;s Conservative leader paints Mark Carney as a Trudeau devotee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Standing up to the White House is a central pillar of his rhetoric as he prepares to be sworn in next week. Carney claims that the U.S. has become a &ldquo;country [Canada] can no longer trust&rdquo; under the leadership of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3340143\/trump-turns-canadian-elections-upside-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP TURNS CANADIAN ELECTIONS UPSIDE DOWN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump, as we know, has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">put unjustified tariffs<\/a> on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living,&rdquo; Carney said at the event. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s attacking Canadian families, workers, and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed, and we won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark Carney, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, embraces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after being announced the winner at the Liberal leadership Event in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Justin Tang\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t ask for this fight. But Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;The Americans, they should make no mistake &mdash; in trade, as in hockey, Canada will win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Carney is not a member of the Canadian parliament. Instead, his professional resume boasts a career marked with high-profile financial policy positions<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">, first as governor of the Bank of Canada and then as governor of the&nbsp;Bank of England. He has also worked for Goldman Sachs and as the&nbsp;<\/span>United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance.<\/p>\n<p>How long Carney will serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a> is unclear. Canada needs to hold elections by Oct. 20, but the government could call an election sooner. His lack of a seat in parliament will create minor logistical problems, such as an inability to participate in lawmakers&rsquo; debates and votes. He would also be ineligible to participate in his parliament&rsquo;s Question Period. There is some pressure for Carney, therefore, to call the election sooner to secure a tangible mandate from the Canadian public.<\/p>\n<p>The situation parallels the resignation of Justin Trudeau&rsquo;s father, Pierre Trudeau, in 1984. The elder Trudeau stepped down and was replaced by Josh Turner, a former finance minister who never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-black-democrat-governor-of-virginia-blasts-democrat-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-over-racism-scandal\/\" title=\"Former Black Democrat Governor Of Virginia Blasts Democrat Candidate Terry McAuliffe Over Racism Scandal\">held elected office<\/a>. Turner was among Canada&rsquo;s shortest-serving prime ministers, and his election was widely regarded as a critical misstep for the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341991\/canada-conservative-leader-paints-mark-carney-trudeau-devotee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre<\/a> has dismissed the transition from Trudeau to Carney as no change and a misstep toward weakness that will please the ever-aggressive Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And make no mistake, Donald Trump will have a big smile on his face as he exploits all of Carney&rsquo;s many conflicts to attack Canadian workers and Canadian jobs,&rdquo; he said following Carney&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Carney is dismissive of his rival, accusing Conservatives themselves of bending the knee to Trump and forsaking national interests.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pierre Poilievre would let our planet burn. That&rsquo;s not leadership; it&rsquo;s ideology,&rdquo; the soon-to-be prime minister said of his political opponent. &ldquo;Poilievre&rsquo;s plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The election of Carney, who was educated at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Harvard<\/a> and Oxford, is a strong step toward even more technocratic management of a country seriously threatened by the prospect of a trade war with its southern neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>The White House accuses the Canadian government of failing to prevent the illegal movement of migrants and narcotics across its borders into the U.S., an assertion Canadians criticize as unserious.<\/p>\n<p>With approximately 1.5 million illegal immigrants having poured into the U.S. since former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s inauguration, only 24,000 came through Canada. The rate of trafficking drugs such as fentanyl is similarly disproportionate at the northern and southern borders.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has routinely criticized Canada as America&rsquo;s future &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/think-trump-acquiring-greenland-is-nonsense-dem-fetterman-doesnt-hes-not-opposed-either\/\" title=\"Think Trump Acquiring Greenland Is Nonsense? Dem Fetterman Doesn&#039;t - He&#039;s Not Opposed, Either\">51st state&#038;rdquo<\/a>; after meetings with Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago revealed that the prime minister believed his country could become insolvent under the president&rsquo;s proposed tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341915\/trudeau-gives-farewell-speech-ahead-of-liberal-party-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUDEAU GIVES FAREWELL SPEECH AHEAD OF LIBERAL PARTY ELECTION RESULTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trudeau does not see his counterpart&rsquo;s rhetoric as superficial insults, expressing a sincere concern that Trump intends to bring Canada under U.S. control through economic brute force.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The excuse that he&rsquo;s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,&rdquo; Trudeau told reporters earlier this month. &ldquo;What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2030373\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2030373\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney, a non-parliamentarian and former central banker, is poised to succeed Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister after winning a decisive mandate from the Liberal Party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2412137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AP25068847194135.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3957,51837,34314],"class_list":["post-2412136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-canada","tag-mark-carney","tag-prime-minister"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AP25068847194135.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412140,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412136\/revisions\/2412140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}