Trump impacts succession in Canada and surrounds the liberal party

On Sunday (9), the members of the Canada Liberal Party defined the new Prime Minister to replace Justin Trudeau. The option was for former banker Mark Carney, and his choice is through Canada’s clash with US President Donald Trump, who opened a trench against the neighboring country with threats to impose 25% trade rates on imports.

The vote of party members began on February 26 with the possibility of online vote. The change of command occurs after Trudeau resigned in January after its popularity fell with the crisis opened by Trump and the dissatisfaction of the population with food and housing prices. He has been in office since 2015.

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Carry received 86% of the vote in the party’s internal dispute and beat former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, parliamentarian Karina Gould and former parliamentarian Frank Bailys. It is the main leader of the country until new elections occur, which should be one of his first missions as Prime Minister: to announce a schedule that should occur by October.

The decision on the prime minister is made by the party that has the greatest support in the House, for four years in office. The government leader has the power to dissolve Parliament before the deadline and summon new elections, which happened to Trudeau in 2021, when he was reappointed after his party won and nominated him, which also occurred in 2015 and 2019.

Banqueiro ‘Experienced in Crisis’

Novice in party policy, Carry is 59 years old and is in his curriculum for Goldman Sachs bank, and the Central Bank’s heads of Canada and the Central Bank of England.

In his speech after the victory, the new prime minister said he will face threats with new ideas, that he will beat the US as in hockey (ice sport) and cannot allow Trump’s victory, who wants Canada for him.

In this period when Trudeau entered ostracism, Carry had his image driven by the defense of retaliation to the US against possible taxes – constantly postponed.

The new prime minister surfed in this wave and put himself as the right person to face Trump by selling himself as an economist who avoided greater consequences for the country during the 2008 financial crisis, when he was president of Canada Central Bank, and was in charge of the Bank of England during Brexit.

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The curriculum that puts him as experienced in confrontation with crises, not only raised to the current post, but served to prevent the complete melting of the liberal party. When it all indicated that the party would lose room for conservatives in the next election, surveys have indicated pairing between the two forces since Carry came to the scene.

Although a new breath has been given to liberals, as an unexpected consequences for Trump’s measures, research shows that nor liberal or conservative would be able to set up a majority government. Which points to the formation of coalitions.

In any case, liberals do not want to lose this timely growth moment and interlocutors already say that Carry will call the calendar to the next elections soon.