On Friday, Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s Prime Minister, taking charge of a country due to a deterioration in US relations after President Donald Trump’s return to power.
The ruling Liberal Party strongly supported Carney to replace Justin Trudeau, and made his experience leading by two central banks through historical crisis that it would assure Canadian residents who could potentially suffer a devastating trade war.
“We’re going to get the right to work,” he told reporters before taking the oath of office. The first cabinet meeting will be after the oath -taking ceremony. Diplomatic sources said AFP He will travel his first foreign trip as Prime Minister in Europe next week.
Carney, who is 60 years old on Sunday, is a political nephew who has never won the elected public office, but his campaign skills will soon be experienced with Canada to be attracted to the general election within weeks.
The dangers posed by Trump are expected to dominate the vote.
The US president has tried to bleed Canada, which threatens to clear import taxes and further taxes, while claiming that the country itself is not “viable” and should be linked to Washington.
Carney, who took oath as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister at a ceremony in Ottawa, described Trump’s position that Canada faces the most serious challenge in one generation. “Everything in my life has prepared me for this moment,” Carney said on Sunday after winning the Liberal Party leadership race.
Before serving as Governor of the Bank of Canada during the financial crisis of 2008-2009, he was a banker of investment in Goldman Sex and also led the Bank of England through a riot around the Brexit vote.
Carney has tried to present himself as aim for guiding a country through a trade war with the United States, once the closest ally of Canada, but now a country that says Canada can no longer “trust”.
In a group of seven groups in Quebec, Canadian Foreign Minister Melania Jolie, who retains her job in the new cabinet, said Carney would bring a “new dynamic” to US diplomacy.
Speaking before Carney’s oath, Julie said he and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who are in the G7, have been working to make a call between Trump and Carney in the next two days.
A team of 23 Carni ministers, which has been less than 36 of Trudeau, has the main focus of the old guard dealing with Washington, which includes Finance Portfolio, Dominic Lee Black, in the Francois Philip Shampian, who is transferred to Minister of Commerce and Defense Minister Bill Blair.
Hard race
Trump’s prices and insults have promoted Canadian politics. At the beginning of the year, the Liberals were leading the conservatives by 20 points in the elections. But in weeks, since Trudeau announced his plans to resign on January 6, the race has reached a close draw.
“Carni is reaching good times. He has emerged as a personality that seems to be that people rely on Donald Trump to confront, “said Felix Matthew, a professor at the University of Winpe Politics. AFP.
On Saturday, after giving 25 % of Trump’s steel and aluminum imports to sweep, Carney visited a steel plant in Hamilton, an industrial city near the US border in the province of Ontario.
Wearing hard hats and springs, Carney said he was ready to work on a trade deal with Trump. But he insisted that any talks should be “respect for Canada’s sovereignty”.
Distance from Trudeau
Trudeau posted a goodbye message to Canadian citizens after about ten years of power on Thursday, saying he “is proud that he has served a country full of people who are right”.
Trudeau’s support had fallen over the past one year, but after its series, his position was partially recovered. Official speeches in response to Trump.
Carney made clear efforts to remove herself from Trudeau, which aims to attract more senior voters. He said that resolving climate change would be a top priority, but they were eliminating the “discriminatory” carbon tax of Trudeau on individuals and families, pushing the market -led solution.
He is also holding taxes on the benefits of the capital, which applies to wealthy Canadians, which the Trudeau government has said that Canada’s financial affairs must move forward.
“We think the builders should be encouraged to take danger and they should be rewarded when they succeed,” he said on Sunday.
