Nick Harper: Political Analyst on Mark Carney winning the Canadian Election

Canadian Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney will have a lot of issues to tackle after winning the country's election last night.  

The win means he'll continue to lead Canada – the job he took over from Justin Trudeau six weeks ago.  

It's an upset loss for the Conservative Party, which was leading the polls up until Carney took over. 

Political Analyst Nick Harper told Ryan Bridge it might be a tough start for him. 

He says Carney has a tremendous to do list, and will also have to work out a trade policy with the US. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the Trump was speaking of was real. Cannie's won
the Canadian election. Insult to injury this morning for Pierre Pogiev,
the guy Cannie beat. He's projicted to lose his seat
in the House of Commons too. He's held it for
twenty years now. Some Liberals going to take it off him.
He's lost the chance of becoming prime minister, end his seat.
That is a bad day at the office. Feature Storing

(00:20):
News political analyst Nick Harper's with us this morning. Nick,
Good morning, Good morning Ryan. That's pretty embarrassing for him,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh, a complete disaster, Like you say, he has been
and then being for a very long time. He's been
there and he's been going through a lot of things.
And he thought three months ago that he was going
to be leading Canada into the foreseeable future. But then
we saw this tremendous turnaround in the polls. The Conservatives'
double point lead suddenly completely fell away, and going into

(00:48):
the election the Liberals were leading it. As we saw
on the light, the Liberals took a fourth term, Mark
Carney remaining as the Prime Minister. He was there for
a few weeks ahead of the election after he took
over from Justin Trudea, so he will now be serving
a full term as Prime minister. Before Donald Trump came
into office, this seemed unthinkable because Canada was quite simply

(01:09):
fed up with Liberals, fed up with Justin Trudeau at
the head of the party. He stepped down at a
time when he was particularly unpopular, and the thinking was
that this was going to be a referendum on Justin
Trudeau and therefore the other party, the Conservatives, would have won.
That's not what happened, largely because of the Trump effect
and everything that he's been saying about Canada over the

(01:29):
last few.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Monthsick obviously an incredible feat for him, But is this
I just wonder, is this the high tide mark for
Matt Canney. You know, sure Trump helped unite Canada, but
all of those problems that had Polly of twenty five
points that here just a few weeks ago haven't gone away.
The cost of living, the crime and you've had a
decade of liberal rule. Now he's got a hell of

(01:50):
a job, doesn't he He has.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, there are plenty of problems that many Canadians were
unhappy with, housing, the cost of living, problems with the
healthcare system, immigration. All of those problems are things that
Mark Carney needs to tackle while also trying to unite
the country around Donald Trump. We could see tariffs potentially
disappear overnight. We know that Donald Trump likes to change
things really day by day with one tweet or another.

(02:16):
Of course, if those all disappear suddenly, this reason why
he was elected as Prime minister vanishes, and those big
problems that Canadians really want to be dealt with something
that he will then have to tackle. I mean, it's
going to be a tough time for him. He has
a tremendous to do list to try and work out.
And that's not without mentioning the fact that he will
have to deal with his nearest neighbor, the United States,

(02:37):
and try and work out a trade policy in a
way that the two countries can move forward together. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hey, just quickly thing that one hundred and seventy two
the magic number for a majority with no idea yet
whither they've got.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The yet no, not quite there yet, And it could
be that, you know, he will need to scrabble around
for some other parties to be able to build that coalition.
It could be difficult for him to do, and of
course that reduces his ability is mandate to lead the country. Certainly,
if he hasn't got quite the majority, then he needs one.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Nick appreciate your time. Great to have you on feature
story and news political analyst Nick Harper with us this morning.
Quebequa is the party That'll hold.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
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