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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 17, 2025, 05:20 PM Mar 17

Canada's New Prime Minister: Ready for Action, Coming out Swinging

Canada has a fighting, Harvard-educated economist as its new prime minister. Sunday Mark Carney, 59, was overwhelmingly elected leader with 86 percent of the vote of the governing Liberal Party.

He succeeds outgoing PM Justin Trudeau and will lead the suddenly resurgent Liberals in an expected spring election. The party winning the most seats in the House of Commons forms the government.

Meanwhile, Carney will be sworn in by the Governor General, King Charles’ titular representative in Ottawa, later this week. He may take office on a day that Trump slaps a steep tariff on softwood lumber imports and Canadian dairy products.

Carney came out swinging at Donald Trump and his tariffs, and linked opposition Conservative Party leader Pieter Polievre — often called the Trump of the north — to the American President.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/03/10/canadas-new-prime-minister-ready-for-action/

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Canada's New Prime Minister: Ready for Action, Coming out Swinging (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 17 OP
Thank you, but that is from Monday a week ago. Carney is already sworn in now. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 17 #1
Harvard educated and with a Ph.D. from University of Oxford in Economics. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 17 #2
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