The new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce on Sunday, March 23, the triggering of anticipated legislative elections with a ballot scheduled for April 28, AFP of government source learned Thursday March 20.
Entering the week spent at the head of a minority government, the replacement for Justin Trudeau seeks to obtain, with his liberal party, a majority in the Canadian Parliament when the country is turned upside down by tensions with its powerful American neighbor. “The Prime Minister will announce election on Sunday on April 28,” said the source on condition of anonymity.
Mark Carney against Donald Trump
The Liberal Power Party has focused on the experience of Mark Carney central banker to reassure Canadians faced with a customs war with the United States who could wave the economy. Mark Carney, 60, who is a novice in politics and has never been a deputy or minister, will have to carry out a campaign while facing the threats of Donald Trump.
The American president, who launched a trade war with his neighbor with customs rights, continues to repeat that the “only sensible thing” to do for Canada would be to join the United States of America. The threats posed by the republican billionaire have dominated Canadian political life for weeks and should remain the main subject of the upcoming electoral campaign.
Reassure Canadians
By taking office on Friday, March 14, Mark Carney promised that the country would never be “never” absorbed by the United States, rejecting the threats of annexation of President Donald Trump, who triggered a historic crisis between the two neighbors. Mark Carney has the heavy task of taking the reins of a shocked and anxious country to have become the privileged target of American attacks.
“We will never do, in any way, from the United States,” he said during his first official speech. But he promised to “seek ways to work with” the American president.