Canadian Liberals Select Globalist Technocrat Mark Carney to Replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister
The Justin Trudeau era is coming to a close in Canada, with the governing Liberal Party selecting former central banker Mark Carney as its new leader and eventual prime minister on Sunday.
The leadership contest sparked by Prime Minister Trudeau’s resignation in January came to a close on Sunday evening, with former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney winning the internal party election. Having won 85.9 per cent of the vote, Carney bested former finance minister and deputy PM Chrystia Freeland at 8 per cent, former cabinet minister Karina Gould at 3.2 per cent, and businessman and former MP Frank Baylis at 3 per cent, CBC
reports.
Perhaps demonstrating a lack of enthusiasm, of the approximate 400,000 Liberal Party members who registered to vote in the leadership contest, CTV
reports that just 151,899 votes were actually cast.
Under Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney does not automatically become prime minister but will have to wait for Trudeau to officially tender his resignation to the governor-general. After that, Carney will be invited to form a new government. This process is expected to be carried out within the next week.
Despite being a longtime advisor to Trudeau, including on economics and during the coronavirus lockdowns, Carney has attempted to cast himself as an outsider who can take the Liberal Party in a new direction and be a firm hand in the ongoing trade dispute with the United States and President Donald Trump.
However, critics, such as Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, have accused the former Goldman Sachs investment banker of being “sneaky” and of representing a doubling down of the failed economic and environmentalist Trudeau-era agendas.
During the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Carney served as an advisor to Boris Johnson’s government in Britain and later to Justin Trudeau’s government in Canada, both of which instituted some of the strictest lockdown restrictions in the Western world.
The Liberal Party selected former central banker Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as leader and as the next prime minister of Canada.
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