Mark Carney swore Friday as the Prime Minister of Canada, taking charge of a country shaken by a collapse in US relations since the return to the power of President Donald Trump.
The ruling liberal party overwhelmingly supported Carney to replace Justin Trudeau, betting on his experience leading two central banks through historical crises will reassure Canadians who face a potentially devastating commercial war.
“We are going to be entitled to work,” journalists told journalists. The first cabinet meeting will take place after the oath ceremony. Diplomatic sources said AFP He will make his first foreign trip as Prime Minister to Europe next week.
Carney, who turns 60 on Sunday, is a political rookie who has never won an elected public office, but his campaign skills will soon be evaluated with Canada is probably aimed at the general elections in weeks.
Threats raised by Trump are expected to dominate the vote.
The president of the United States has tried to hit Canada, imposing import tariffs and threatening greater levies while stating that the country is not “viable” by itself and must be attached to Washington.
Carney, who swore the 24th Prime Minister of Canada in a ceremony in Ottawa, described Trump’s position as the most serious challenge that Canada has faced in a generation. “Everything in my life has prepared for me for this moment,” said Carney on Sunday after winning the leadership career of the Liberal Party.
He was a banker of investments in Goldman Sachs before serving as governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008-2009 financial crisis and also directed the Bank of England through the agitation that surrounds the Brexit vote.
Carney has tried to present himself as specially designed to take a country through a commercial war with the United States, once the closest ally in Canada, but now a country that says that Canada “can no longer trust.”
In a group meeting of seven in Quebec, Canada’s foreign minister, Melanie Joly, who maintains her work in the new cabinet, said Carney would bring a “new dynamic” to US diplomacy.
Speaking before Carney Jurara, Joly said she and the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is in the G7, were working to establish a call between Trump and Carney “in the next few days.”
The team of 23 Ministers of Carney, thinned with the 36 of Trudeau, maintains the nucleus of the former guard treating with Washington, including the Francois-Philippe champagne in the Finance portfolio, Dominic Leblanc, which moves towards trade and defense minister Bill Blair.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif published a congratulation message on X, wishing Carney a successful possession in office.
“[I] We hope to work with him to further strengthen Pakistan-Canadá’s relationships in all spheres, ”wrote the prime minister.
Tightening race
Trump’s tariffs and insults have altered the Canadian policy. At the beginning of the year, the liberals were following the conservatives for 20 points in the surveys. But in the weeks since Trudeau announced his plans to resign on January 6, the race has pressed a close draw.
“Carney is getting to a good time. It has become a figure that people seem to trust to face Donald Trump, “said politics professor at Winnipeg Felix Mathieu University AFP.
In the week in which Trump’s 25 percent rates entered into force on all imports of steel and aluminum, Carney visited a steel plant in Hamilton, an industrial city near the US border in the province of Ontario.
Using a hard hat and glasses, Carney said he was ready to make a commercial agreement with Trump. But he insisted that there must be “respect for Canadian sovereignty” in any negotiation.
Distance from Trudeau
Trudeau published a farewell message to Canadians on Thursday after almost ten years in power, saying that he was “proud to have served a country full of people who defend the right thing.”
Trudeau’s support had collapsed during the past year, but his position was partially recovered after a series of speeches resolved in response to Trump.
Carney has made clear efforts to distance himself from Trudeau with movements destined to attract more centrist voters. He said that addressing climate change will be a priority, but is discarding the “divisive” tax of Trudeau’s carbon to people and families while moving the market -led solutions.
It is also stopping a capital gains tax that would have been applied to the richest Canadians, that the Trudeau government said it was essential to underpin Canada’s finances.
“We believe that builders must be encouraged to take risks and reward themselves when they succeed,” he said on Sunday.
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