The designated prime minister, Mark Carney, met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday when the new liberal leader takes the reins of power after an overwhelming victory in the Sunday’s party elections.
Carney told the journalists in Parliament Hill that the meeting was long and discussed the most pressing problems of the day: relations with United Canada-United States and other national security issues.
He said the government’s delivery will be “perfect” and “fast” and said that its official oath will happen in a short time.
“The good news is that you will probably see more than what you want,” he joked. “We will return soon.”
A Carney spokesman announced Monday night that the designated prime minister stripped all his assets, apart from his personal real estate, in a blind trust.
The signed blind document was presented to the Ethics Commissioner when the results of the leadership vote were announced on Sunday.
“We have been actively working with the Ethics Commissioner and we have delivered a complete and robust conflict conflict conflict management plan,” said the spokesman in a statement.
A day after the Liberal Party elected a new leader, Employment Minister Steven Mackinnon, Deputy Judy Sgro, Deputy Kody Blois, Public Security Minister David McGuinty, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, Deputy George Chahal and the Minister of Environment, Jonathan Wilkinson, discuss what they expect to see in her new Party leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In addition to his sitting with Trudeau, Carney met with liberal parliamentarians at a Caucus meeting.
He said his message to his new team is to stay focused on the solutions to Trump’s commercial war.
“We know that this is a crucial moment for our country. We are united to serve Canadians and we will build this country,” said Carney.
Carney has taken advantage of a familiar face to serve as her cabinet boss: the current deputy and former Minister of the Marco Mendicino Cabinet.
Sources close to the new liberal leader told CBC News that Mendicino, who served as Minister of Public Security under Trudeau before being taken from the cabinet in 2023, will serve as a cabinet head as Carney changes the leadership campaign to the government.
Mark Carney won the liberal leadership career on Sunday with almost 86 percent of the votes, which made him designated by the Prime Minister. The victory prepares the stage for a federal election and a direct battle with US President Donald Trump over tariffs.
Mendicino joined Carney for the meeting with Trudeau.
A Carney spokesman said that Mendicino’s appointment is temporary during this transition period.
Canada does not have a long history of chosen politicians who serve as Chief of Prime Minister, although Jean Pelletier, former mayor of the Quebec city, played that role for former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Mendicino was withdrawn from the cabinet in the middle of a violent reaction for his management of the Movement of the Convicto Killer Paul Bernardo from a maximum safety prison in ontarium to an average security center in Quebec.
The former justice minister, David Lametti, who was out of the cabinet in the 2023 Shuffle, is also helping with the Carney transition.
A Reuters photographer took a photo of Trudeau later carrying a chair of the Commons camera of the Block West camera while ending his time in the government.
According to parliamentary rules, a outgoing parliamentarian can buy a replica of his chair in the camera.
The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was scathing in his Carney evaluation after Sunday’s vote.
“It’s like Justin. It’s the same: the same advisors, the same staff. That will produce the same results,” he said.
The sources say that many of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau staff will be replaced.
Pailievre said Carney has a “disastrous history as an economic advisor” for Trudeau.
Carney offered some tips to the Government at the beginning of the pandemic and recruited the autumn past to the Trudeau Economic Advisory Council.
“Trump will have an informative session in his desktop of all American investments in Carney and we know that Carney will exhaust Canada for her personal benefit as a source,” said Poilievre.
It is not known how many US investments has Carney.
As of last April, the new leader has actions in Brookfield Asset Management, which transferred his Central Toronto office to New York last year, but still publicly trades in the Toronto Stock Exchange. Carney was the president of the Company Board before resigning to run for liberal leadership.
When asked why he is more appropriate to deal with the threats from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre defended his own history while comparing it with the newly elected liberal leader Mark Carney.
The liberal parliamentarians were jubilant on Monday over the victory of the landslides of Carney: he obtained a surprising 86 percent of the points, easily crushed to their competitors.
“Mark Carmy is what Canada needs to deal with the United States,” said Liberal Deputy Judy Sgro.
She said Pailievre does not have what is necessary to face the president of the United States, Donald Trump, while Canada looks at her 51st state mockery and the threat of economic ruin.
“It is 100 miles ahead of Pierre Poilievre. It has the economic knowledge that Canada needs to build our country. Pailievre has no knowledge, it is like a small child compared to Carney,” he said.
That message was the lips in each parliamentarian who stopped to talk to journalists before the Caucus meeting.
The Minister of Public Services, Jean-Yves Duclos, himself a trained economist, said that Pailievre knows nothing about the economy and would be the incorrect choice at this point of crucial inflection.
Pailievre served as a party critic of the party under former leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole.
Public Security Minister David McGuinty said that the country needs an experienced person as Carney, a former central banker in Canada and the United Kingdom, to lead Canada through the commercial war.
“Mark Carmy is a very good man for this moment and I hope we can convince the Canadian people of that fact,” McGuinty said.
Parties that recruit candidates
Liberal deputy Kody Blois, the Atlantic Caucus chair, said Carney’s candidacy has been a shot in the arm for the party.
There are many more people who want to run for liberals now that two months ago when Trudeau’s popularity was at a low point, he said.
The party confirmed on Sunday that it already has 165 candidates aligned to run for liberals in the next general elections.
The conservatives, meanwhile, are far ahead in that count. A spokesman said the game has 258 candidates nominated so far.
There are 343 cables at stake, five more than the last federal vote.
Blois said the liberal recruitment of “candidates is doing very well” in their particular region, with “some really strong people who step forward.”
“I really like Carney’s contrast against Pierre Poilievre, which resembles what we are seeing south of the border,” he said, referring to Trump. “Carney is the mature voice we need at this time.”
“People are excited to run for us,” added deputy Karina Gould, who withdrew about three percent of the points in Sunday’s leadership elections.
