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Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister (www.ft.com)

submitted 4 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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Canada’s ruling Liberal Party has elected Mark Carney as its new leader and therefore Prime Minister, setting up a face-off between the former central banker and US President Donald Trump.

On Sunday afternoon the Liberal party announced Carney had won the contest to replace Justin Trudeau, who stepped down as leader in January after months of party infighting and poor polling.

However, celebrations for Carney and his team in Ottawa will be shortlived as Canada faces a trade war with its southern neighbour. Trump has threatened to levy broad tariffs on Canada’s imports and taunted that the country should become the 51st state of the US.

Carney is expected to immediately replace Trudeau, who was at the Liberal party event on Sunday.

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[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

Freeland has a LOT of ties to Ukraine and Russia,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland

So what's her reasoning for stirring the pot and causing trouble? I'd venture a guess she didn't think Trudeau was doing enough to help Ukraine...

That resignation and disagreement opened up the Cons and NDP to try and steal the spot light.