12 May 2025 - Mark Carney’s Liberals Win Canadian Election
Carney's Liberals won. What happens next?
Ana Faguy (BBC News, 30/04/2025)
In his victory speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to stand up to the US, which he accused of trying to "break" Canada. Carney is a relative political newcomer, having replaced Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberals two months ago. So what happens next?
‘Trump wanted to break us’, says Carney as Liberals triumph in Canadian election
Leyland Cecco (The Guardian, 29/04/2025)
Mark Carney has used his victory speech to claim Donald Trump wanted to “break us” as he led Canada’s Liberal party to a fourth term in office, in a race that was upended by threats and aggression from the US president. The Liberal triumph capped a miraculous political resurrection and marked a landmark victory for Carney, the former central banker and political novice who only recently succeeded Justin Trudeau as prime minister. Results on Tuesday confirmed that the Liberals fell just short of a majority government and would therefore need the support of political rivals to govern.
Trump ‘delighted’ by his influence on Canada’s election: U.S. journalist
Sean Boynton (Global News, 04/05/2025)
U.S. President Donald Trump “seemed positively delighted” about the impact he had on Canada’s federal election, a U.S. journalist said while recounting a recent interview with the president. Ashley Parker was one of three writers at The Atlantic who interviewed Trump in the Oval Office for an article published late last month, before Canadians elected a Liberal minority government in last week’s election.
Triumph for Carney: what happened in Canada’s election, and what will it mean?
Archie Bland and Leyland Cecco (The Guardian, 29/04/2025)
At the beginning of the year, Canada’s Conservatives had a 25-point lead over the Liberal government, and their leader, Pierre Poilievre, looked certain to be the country’s next prime minister. But as the votes cast in Monday’s election have been counted, the story of the campaign has been confirmed: victory for the Liberals and their new leader, Mark Carney, who have extended their decade of rule by as much as another five years.
Mark Carney in 2013. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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