Rachel Aiello: Canadian correspondent on what we can expect from Canada's new Prime Minister

Canada's new Prime Minister is expected to tout his economic expertise as he enters the job. 

Mark Carney has served as Governor of Canada's and England's central banks. 

He'll lead the Liberal Party into this year's general election. 

Canadian correspondent Rachel Aiello says it's important for Carney to sell himself as a numbers man. 

"At this current moment, with the ongoing trade war with the United States, the state of the Canadian economy and who is best placed to manage it is going to be one of the biggest ballot questions in our upcoming federal election."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brian Bridge five seventeen here on News Talk CB, former
Canadian and English Central banker. Yes, the banker has won.
The governor Mark Kearney will be Canada's next prime minister
after Trudeau said goodbye and resigned. He won the Liberal
Party's internal leadership election eighty five percent of the vote,
So the party likes him. The question is will the

(00:21):
Canadian people. Here's some of his acceptance speech.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know that these are dark days, dark days brought
on by a country we can no longer trust and
we have to look out for each other.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Joining me is Rachel Alo. She's with CTV, the national
correspondent covering politics. They are joining us from Ottawa. Rachel, Hello, Hey,
how are you very well? Thank you? So tell us
all about the new leader, Mark Carney. Who is he?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah? So, Mark Carney is former Bank of Canada governor
as well as the former governor of the Bank of England.
He is a relative political newcomer. He doesn't have a
seat in our House of Commons, so he's not an
elected member of parliament yet, but he's kind of rumored
entering into the political force. Really ramped up this summer
into the fall and then of course, we saw Prime

(01:15):
Minister Justin Trudeau resign and within ten days of that
resignation announcement, Mark Carney threw his hat into the ring,
and just here in Ottawa tonight has been elected the
next Liberal leader of a federal party here in Canada.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Already you've got the Conservatives coming out and attacking him, saying, look,
they're trying to trick you, the Liberals trying to trick
you into a fourth term now that Trudeau's gone. Is
there because he's obviously being the head of the central
Bank in the UK and in Canada. Is that part
of the strategy to try and push that those economic
credentials for the Canadian voters.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Absolutely it is. I think at this current moment, with
this ongoing trade war with the United States, the state
of the Canadian economy and who is best place to
manage it is going to be one of the biggest
ballot questions in our upcoming federal election. I think what
is also behind the Conservative attacks in this country is
what we've seen in the polls. The Liberals under Justin
Trudeau were very far behind. The Conservative had about a

(02:12):
twenty point lead when Trudeau resigned, and over the last
two months since, we've seen a real resurgence of the Liberals.
They were kind of buoyed by the Liberal leadership race,
new interest in the party that Trudeau was going to
be stepping aside, and some of that was interested in
Carnie as an alternative option for those voters who wanted change.
But then this question of who is best to handle
Donald Trump came up and the Paliaev Conservatives have kind

(02:34):
of struggled to land their talking points on that one.
So the Conservatives are going full force against Karne now
because they're seeing this shift, seeing a lot of Canadians
being interested in the Liberals once again, when as of
just a few months ago, it was basically the next
election was Polyiev to lose. So that is kind of
where the Conservatives are coming from in criticizing Carney's credentials
as someone who they've kind of taken aim at, saying

(02:55):
he's re kind of inflated his involvement in helping Canada
as a global financial crisis back in two thousand and
eight two thousand and nine, and then questioning his inexperience
as a political leader, which actually in his speech tonight,
Karney took direct aim at Polly Evan saying, well, I
have experienced in this other than what Polia has, who
is a Conservative Party leader, has been in the House

(03:16):
of Commons, a member of Parliament for basically his entire.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Career, so he's an institutionalized politician. I suppose would be
the a tech line. Does this mean we.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Could see direct I think Carney is the exact opposite.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Does this mean we could say the consider's net coment
hotter against Trump.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's possible. I'm really curious to hear where the Conservatives go.
We've saw the Conservatives in the last little while try
to kind of really wrap themselves around the Canadian flag
and talk about this message of Canada First. But Carney
has now put out a clear counter to that tonight,
to being this new slogan of Canada Strong. So it'll
be an interesting battle. We are anticipating now the federal
election could be called within a week. Carney now has

(03:57):
to go through the transition process to have formally become
Prime Minister. Once that happens, he will have the power
to trigger an election, which a lot of folks here
in Canada are thinking is the most likely next step.
Because he doesn't have a seat Why would he go
into Parliament, go into the House of Commons and kind
of call out the fact that he's not elected instead
use that as a talking point to justify to Canadians.

(04:17):
Why now is the time that he needs a strong
and mandate to go to the polls and then see
that battle player between the Liberals and Conservatives in it
will wait that just a few months ago, I think
is going to play quite differently, Simmen expected really interesting.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Rachel. Thank you for that. Rachel alo CTV national correspondent
covering politics out of Ossawa and Canada. For more from
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