The designated Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and his cabinet will be presented on Friday at Rideau Hall, Radio-Canada and CBC News.
The new liberal leader, who assumes the position of the outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has promised that the transition will be “perfect and will be fast.”
According to radio-channel and CBC news sources, Trudeau will officially resign as Prime Minister on Friday, thus dissolving his cabinet. Carney and the members of their cabinet will be sworn in Rideau Hall, the official residence of the general governor.
As previously reported, the former Public Security Minister, Marco Mendicino, whom Trudeau withdrew from the cabinet in 2023, is the banish gabinet chief during the transition.
Radio-Canada learned that the former Quebec finance minister Carlos Leitão is in conversations with Carney team about becoming a liberal candidate in the next elections.
Leitão has not hidden his interest in a possible return to politics. He and Carney know for more than 15 years.
According to Radio-Canadá sources, the former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest, has also been approached by the Carney Camp. It is not clear exactly what was offered, but Charest has no intention of becoming a minister and would not accept an offer of Carney unless liberals win federal elections.
Ongoing transition meetings
From his victory in landslide on Sunday, Carney has held a series of meetings to prepare for his new role. On Monday he met with the Liberal Caucus, and the Canadian ambassador to the Kirsten Hillman of the United States and the head of the defense staff Jennie Carignan on Tuesday. He had breakfast with Ontario Doug Ford’s Prime Minister on Wednesday.
As part of the preparations for the transition between Carney and Trudeau, Mendicino met with the outgoing prime minister personnel for an hour on Tuesday afternoon.
Although Trudeau and Carney belong to the same political party, the two teams are dealing with the transition as a new administration. This means that Trudeau staff has been emptying their offices, taking personal belongings such as electronic emails and files and documents.
It is expected that many of the personnel who already work in the office of the Prime Minister remain in his place, at least until the next federal elections, since several members of the Carney team must obtain their security authorization before assuming their new tasks. These authorizations can often take two weeks or more.
Once the oath ceremony ends, Carney is expected to call an election before Parliament resumes on March 24.
Carney visit to steel workers in Hamilton
It is expected that dealing with the commercial war launched by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is at the top of the Carney agenda as prime minister.
Carney said he was prepared to speak directly with the president of the United States about commercial relations between the two countries, but “under a position in which there is respect for Canadian sovereignty.”
Mark Carney, appointed by the prime minister, who spoke with the workers during a visit to the Arceormittal Dofasco manufacturer in Hamilton on Wednesday, says he respects the concerns of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for US workers and fentanil In commerce.
The insistence of Carney in Canadian sovereignty comes at a time when Trump has repeated his desire to make Canada the 51st American state.
He also requested a common approach to trade between countries.
Carney made the comments during a visit to the Dofafasco Arceormittal steel manufacturer in Hamilton on Wednesday. The Trump administration imposed a 25 percent rate on steel and aluminum of all countries on Wednesday. Canada is the main supplier of the United States.
Canada is imposing 25 percent tariffs at $ 29.8 billion of American imports in reprisals, effectively doubling their countercurrents instead. Those have an effect on Thursday.
