‘Canada will never ever be part of America,’ says Mark Carney after winning PM race

Cameron Andersoncanadian politician

It is absolutely a risk. He is unproven in the crucible of an election,

said Cameron Anderson, a political scientist at Ontario's Western University

Justin Trudeauprime Minister

Canadians face from our neighbor an existential challenge."

Delivering a farewell address before the results were announced, Trudeau said

The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,

he said

I think we were written off about four months ago, and now we're right back where we should be,

former MP Frank Baylis, who also ran for the leadership, told AFP in Ottawa

Cameron Andersoncanadian politician

The average Canadian in the country is viewing these things in an existential way,

Anderson said

We chose the person who could best face off against (Tory leader) Pierre Poilievre in the next election and deal with Donald Trump,

he told AFP

Justin Trudeauprime Minister

We cannot let him succeed,

added the 59-year-old, who will take over from outgoing Liberal leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the coming days

Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term by replacing Trudeau with his economic advisor, Mark Carney,

Poilievre said

The Canadian government is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs. My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect — and make credible, reliable commitments to free and fair trade,

said Carney

I’m not the only Liberal in Canada who believes that the prime minister and his team let their attention wander from the economy too often. I will not lose focus,

Carney told a hometown crowd in Edmonton

We did not ask for this fight,

Carney said

And now in the face of President Trump's threats, Pierre Poilievre still refuses to get his security clearance at a time when our national security is under threat and has never been before,

Carney said

There's someone who's trying to weaken our economy: Donald Trump, and Donald Trump, as we know, has put, as the prime minister just said, unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living,

Carney said, according to Newsweek

He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed, and we won't the I am proud,

Carney added

I know that these are dark days, dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust,

he added

And they both also want to build more. They’ve both alluded to things like pipelines, big nation-building projects that, again, help connect Canada to Canada and rely more on east-west than north-south,

he added

The Conservatives are trying to cast him as an elite who doesn't understand what regular people go through. And I think if he can't communicate well, then he runs the risk of being typecast in that way,

Turnbull said

He's a boring guy who in general doesn't have a lot of charisma,

Beland said

He is unusually well-equipped to deal with economic crises" but "it's very hard to see how anybody would be successful in politics if you can't bring people on board with you

she told AFP

Very much we are emphasizing the commercial aspect of it, the competitiveness aspect,

he said recently in an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast