As widely expected, Mark Carney has become the new Liberal party of Canada leader — and will become Canada’s next prime minister.
The former Bank of England and Bank of Canada governor won by an overwhelming margin on Sunday, taking 85.9 percent of the vote. Former Liberal deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland finished a distant second with 8 percent. Carney will now meet with outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to set a timetable for the transition of power.
OTTAWA — Mark Carney may have been crowned leader of the Liberal party by casting himself as a political outsider, but his skills as a politician need work, say some of his supporters.
Carney walked into an Ottawa convention centre Sunday as the presumed front-runner of the four candidates who were vying to replace Justin Trudeau as leader and prime minister.
“@MarkJCarney …climate change from a human mortality perspective will be the equivalent of a coronavirus crisis every year from the middle of this century, and every year, not just a one-off event. So it is an issue that needs to be addressed now.” https://t.co/fiSgYHAvGe
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) March 10, 2025
Canada gives $272M in aid to Bangladesh, Indo-Pacific as USAID shuttered
Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, unveiled $272.1 million in new funding on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region.
“Canada continues to fiercely strengthen our long-lasting friendship with Bangladesh and the wider Indo-Pacific region with our long-standing people-to-people ties,” Hussen said in a statement. “By supporting vulnerable communities’ healthcare services, empowering women and addressing climate change, we are creating a brighter tomorrow for the global community.”
Bangladesh is number 24 on the Open Doors World Watch List, which ranks the countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution.
To Liberals stealing your money is their right.
On Sunday evening in Ottawa, the results of the Liberal leadership race were announced. To no one’s surprise, Mark Carney won, receiving 85.9 per cent of the vote. But Carney didn’t just win the party’s leadership race, he won the highest seat in our government, without ever being elected by Canadians, not even as a member of Parliament.
More from Dan McTeague about Mark Carney
"The very fact that he has Gerald Butts and Katie Telford and the same group of liberals behind Justin Trudeau behind him, that should be an alarm."
"As well as his wife and I don't like to bring in, you know, our backgrounds, but his… https://t.co/GyAoaxGXnW pic.twitter.com/KPckMNZT1G
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 9, 2025
The Liberal Party’s leadership announcement on Sunday night kicked off with a brief video chronicling “157 years of history” for the party. It travelled from grainy long-ago moments rendered in black and white to a sleeves-rolled-up Justin Trudeau reaching out to a surging crowd, which itself feels like a million political years ago.
Already, the Prime Minister belonged to the party’s history books, not to its present.
A round up of our MSM …
CBC – Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment
Star – Mark Carney vows to keep ‘Canada strong’ against Donald Trump after Liberal leadership victory
Global – Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader, replacing Justin Trudeau
CTV – Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as the next prime minister of Canada
Globe – Mark Carney elected Liberal Leader in landslide victory
SUN – LILLEY: Carney’s Liberal coronation is just what Trudeau ordered
NatPo – Full text: Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership victory speech
A tour of downtown New Westminster with Coun. Daniel Fontaine is a chilling experience.
This city, with a population of 92,000, has the dubious distinction of being the second-densest city in Canada. It recently surpassed Montreal for the number of people per square kilometre and is now second only to Vancouver.
The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”
The 60-page report, the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby, the federal appointee tasked with promoting Islam in Canada under the guise of “combatting Islamophobia,” is not just a guide to understanding a particular type of discrimination.
“As long as you, Christians, raise the cross, we will not leave you. We will fight you.”
Jihadists in Syria are all pumped up after the massacres of the last two days
They openly call for genocide against Christians and Alawites.
This extremist openly justifies violence under… pic.twitter.com/hdKcPAaZh2— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 9, 2025
Daylight savings time will make Justin Trudeau’s last day as Liberal party leader an hour shorter; his desired tenure has been abbreviated by much more than that. Once upon a time it was sunny ways. A delayed sunset is a fitting end for a prime minister who lingered in the spotlight too long.
A group living in RVs on a tiny patch of land off Highway 1 in North Vancouver has neighbours concerned about road safety and sanitation.
Known as Bowser Island, the enclave was once home to pleasant, suburban houses — a beautiful fieldstone wall and spired gate testify to that — but the buildings were long ago torn down to their foundations and the sewer line decommissioned when the Upper Levels Highway was widened.
As Bowser’s name suggests, it’s very much like an island, surrounded by a moat of asphalt lanes.
The show kicks off at 4 pm so I provided some reading below.
WAPO – Canada will soon have a new prime minister. Here’s what you need to know.
BBC – How Trump’s threats have changed everything about Canada’s politics
NYTimes – Canada’s Liberals to Elect a New Party Leader and Prime Minister. What to Know.
CBC – Liberals choose their leader today, after campaign defined by chaos of Trump administration
Latest – 338 Federal Seat Projections CPC: 156 LPC: 143 BQ: 28 NDP: 14 GPC: 2
A decisive majority https://t.co/PdvgTBzZ0P pic.twitter.com/5hXaPIJgnF
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 9, 2025
Susan Delacourt: The handover will take a few days, but Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister will essentially wrap up this weekend. I know we both have thoughts on his legacy, Matt, and I suspect we may disagree on some points. Let’s start with the big question: how will you remember his nearly decade in power?
Matt Gurney: It’ll be tough to keep it all straight. Trudeau should get a mix of praise and blame for things he actively had control over. He’ll have wins and losses when historians do the final tally. But, overall, I think what I’ll remember most is that the prime minister missed the boat on big, threatening global changes. I think that may be what defines him. Wrong man for a new era that arrived on his watch.
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‘Amped up over Trump:’ U.S. President top issue to influence federal election vote, survey says
A new Nanos Research survey released Sunday says U.S. President Donald Trump – and how to deal with him – is the top issue influencing how Canadians are voting in the next federal election.
The survey – done exclusively for CTV News – surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians, finding that 36 per cent of respondents said Trump is the most important issue to influence their vote. The economy followed closely in second, at 29 per cent.
“This speaks to a situation where Canadians are amped up over Trump and his threats to the Canadian economy,” Nanos Research Founder Nik Nanos said in a panel on CTV Question Period airing Sunday.
Remember – The same people who call us racist white privileged settlers occupying Turtle Island and spent the last 10 years denigrating Canada and Canadians have suddenly donned a Pre-Fab Patriotism, with the goal of retaining power for their Globalist pals.
Mark Carney will be selected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday.
Oh, I know, there are three other candidates in the race, including former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. But Carney should win resoundingly.
Trudeau met with Paul King Jin in his first term as Prime Minister
Early in his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met with Paul King Jin, a British Columbia businessman who would go on to become a central figure in the province’s money-laundering inquiry.
The existence of the meeting was confirmed by three sources with knowledge of the encounter.
Mr. Trudeau met Mr. Jin, who was among about a dozen people, in a conference room at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, a now-closed hotel near the Vancouver airport, one of the sources said.
