Liberal leader Mark Carney faced blows from his opponents in the debate of the French leaders in French on Wednesday with accusations that they are out of contact with the working people and will not offer enough changes of their unpopular predecessor, charges that he denied when fighting saying that he is the best candidate to handle the threat of the United States and a fallen economy.
While Carney was attacked at the points, the two -hour contest was a large issue and the former central banker left the relatively unscathed debate.
It was thought that the Anglophone liberal leader was in a difficult position given that has less fluidity in French than the other leaders, but Carney remained in the other official language of Canada.
The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that Carney was the “economic advisor” of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that re -elected the liberals to a fourth consecutive mandate would only deliver more of the same. Carney offered advice to the last government during the Covid-19 pandemic already ends last year part-time.
“The problem, Mr. Carney, is that your party has been in power for 10 years. You are like Justin Trudeau. We need a change,” said Poilievre.
Carney did not go around these attacks, saying that Pailievre is the wrong person at the wrong time with Canada looking at US President Donald Trump and his commercial war.
“You are not Justin Trudeau and I am not Justin Trudeau, okay?” Carney retreated.
“The question in this choice is who will succeed in facing Donald Trump. We are in a crisis, the most serious crisis of our lives. We need to react with a resounding and overwhelming force. We need a government ready to act,” said Carney, promising to be focused on the laser in the construction of the economy on the face of Trump’s shoots, if chosen.
Later, Pailievre asked Carney if he was “ashamed” to ask the voters another mandate after some liberal failures perceived under Trudeau. He said that the economy is poor, crime has increased and strict environmental policies have fish in the Canadian oil and gas sector while feeding regional alienation.
Carney said she is her own man and that it is unfair to blame him for past problems.
“I just became a leader. I have been prime minister for a month,” he said.
Liberal leader Mark Carney defends his history as a prime minister during the debate of the leaders in French on Wednesday, after the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre questions how Carney could ask Canadians for a fourth liberal term.
Carney said that in that short time he cut the carbon tax, worked with the provinces to break the internal commercial barriers, negotiate a military association with Australia, began the most intensive commercial conversations with France and the United Kingdom and agreed to sit with Trump after this election to prepare a new bilateral agreement, if he was chosen.
“We have done all that in this short time, we have done all that in a month,” he said.
When asked at the press conference after debate if Trudeau was a good prime minister, Carney said his predecessor “made important contributions to this country”, saying that the last prime minister advanced in indigenous matters of reconciliation and equity.
“One of the differences, and there are many, I will put much more emphasis on the economy, a relentless approach to growing the economy to work for everyone,” said Carney.
During the French debate in the French language on Wednesday, the leader of Bloc Quebécois, Yves-François Blanchet, the liberal leader Mark Carney, the leader of the NDP Jagmeet Singh and the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre describe how their spending habits have changed due to the ongoing commercial war with the United States with the United States.
Pailievre denied in the debate that it is a mini triumph figure that would move away the president if he is chosen, saying that he is ready to sit with the Americans and try to negotiate an agreement immediately to take this commercial dispute continues to a rapid end.
He said that the liberals have made Canada weak and depend on the United States and that it is time to pass the page.
The NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, said he was not buying it. “You would do Canada more like the United States. He Americanized it,” he said.
“We will never be an American state. We will continue to be sovereign,” Poilievre promised.
Pailievre said that a conservative government would eliminate environmental regulations held by some companies in the energy and natural resources sectors and the development of oil and gas turbocharger to make Canada an energy superpower.
During the French debate on Wednesday night, moderator Patrice Roy repeatedly asked the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre if he would impose a pipe even if the indigenous communities and Quebec opposed the project. In response, Pailievre questioned the idea that a pipe would receive opposition from Quebec people.
When asked if he would push a pipe through Quebec, even if there were no broad support there for this project, Pailievre said: “There is no social acceptability for the status quo.”
The leader of Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet, an enemy of the pipe, replied with: “What hollow phrase. That means nothing. When it rains, it is sunny. It makes no sense, just an absolute nonsense.”
Poilievre and Carney also faced the issue of immigration, with Pailievre accusing the liberals of allowing the system to “without control”, with tens of thousands of international students and temporary foreign workers in particular in recent years with more strict limits only imposed on those new arrivals last fall.
Pailievre said Carney listens to “extreme” advisors who wish to grow the population of Canada to 100 million by the end of the century. Carney added Mark Wiseman, co-founder of the Century Initiative, which advocates the ambitious population growth, its United States Advisory Council.
During the debate in French on Wednesday, moderator Patrice Roy asks liberal leader Mark Carney if immigration in Canada has “out of the rails” in the last seven or eight years. Carney says that the system does not work, especially after pandemia.
But Carney tried to distance himself from the handling of the last government’s archive, according to the statement of the debate moderator Patrice Roy that immigration “left the rails” in the post-pandemic period.
“The system does not work,” said Carney, promising to make the influx more manageable, especially with the stretched medical care system.
“That is why we need a limit for a period of time so that we can increase our ability to welcome newcomers.”
Pailievre promised to block the Haitians who came from the US.
Carney said that Haitians are among the most vulnerable people in the western hemisphere, but there are limits for what the country can handle, saying that the majority of asylum applicants probably turn to the US. UU. Given the insurance agreement of the third of the third.
During the first open round of the debate, Bloc Québécois leader, Yves-François Blanchet, attacked the first month of liberal leader Mark Carney, which led Carney to defend what he has done since Justin Trudeau happened.
Singh was Chippy at all times and was intertwined with some participants, which forced Roy to cut his microphone at one time to allow others to speak uninterrupted.
Singh lashed out at Roy, saying that he was unfairly silenced because he was trying to talk about medical care, a problem that was not explicitly in the list of topics to discuss in the debate.
Singh said that the Quebecers should turn their backs on the block, claiming that a vote for that game is a waste.
“Mr. Blanchet, unfortunately, in the last government that showed that it was as useless as the monarchy,” said Singh, criticizing the separatists for voting against the legislation backed by NDP to promulgate pharmaceutical.
Singh also noticed Pailievre, saying that conservatives would make deep cuts to public services to pay their expensive proposed tax cuts.
He said that Pailievre would torpedo medical care as part of an impulse to find savings to give more money to the rich. Pailievre is launching a considerable middle class tax cut. Carney is proposing a similar tax cut, but it is not so generous and, therefore, less expensive for the Federal Treasury.
Singh said that Pailievre cannot be trusted to protect programs that help the most vulnerable.
“We want our medical care system not to be like the American,” said Singh.
Pailievre denied that he wants to cut the things in which Canadians trust, saying that in their place the use of the government of “consultants” would stop and drastically reduce foreign aid to pay billions of dollars in new promises.
During the debate of the leaders in French on Wednesday, the journalist and moderator of the Radio Canada debate, Patrice Roy, asked the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre how it is possible to protect Radio-Canada while at the same time defund CBC. Pailievre says that there is a role for government in the financing of French news services. The leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, says he would protect both Radio-Canadá and CBC.
He also wants to define the CBC while maintaining his arm in French, Radio-Canada, a policy proposal criticized by the other leaders in the debate as a threat to the Cultural sector of Canada.
Singh also addressed Carney with another antimonarcary comment, saying that the liberal leader had time to meet with King Charles during a recent trip to the United Kingdom, but has not increased how much money is available for unemployed through employment insurance (EI).
And it was after Pailievre for what he called his “hateful” and “unpleasant” comments about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), a help group that helps people in Gaza that the conservative leader has called a “terrorist organization.”
Meanwhile, Blanchet said that Quebecers must return more of the parliamentarians of his party to Parliament to protect the interests of the province in Ottawa.
He said Carney is too focused on Ontario, implementing a car relief program of $ 2 billion compared to Trump’s threats. He said there was not enough in process to protect the Quebec aluminum industry.
“When it’s ontarium, checks fly,” Blanchet said.
