Canada’s new prime minister vowed that Donald Trump will never “break us” after riding a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to an unlikely election victory.
“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” Mark Carney declared at a victory rally in Ottawa late Monday night.
“These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never, ever happen.”
Carney took over as leader of the Liberal Party and caretaker prime minister last month after the resignation of Justin Trudeau—the veteran PM mocked by Trump as the “governor” of America’s 51st state.
He quickly called an election, although with the Liberals 20 points behind in the polls the populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre looked set to take over.
But Carney, a central banker with no direct political experience, managed to portray himself as the anti-Trump candidate: bland and monotonous in his delivery, but undeniably tough and competent.
It was not an act. Carney represents pretty much everything Trump and the populist right rejects.
Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole. pic.twitter.com/DHYuu2tJMm
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 29, 2025
Born in the remote Northwest Territories, he earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard, where he played as goaltender in the college ice hockey team.
After studying at Oxford, playing with the field hockey blues, Carney spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs before becoming the governor of first the Canadian central bank and then the Bank of England—the first person to lead the central banks of two G7 nations.
Throughout, he always rejected the suggestion that he might end up as a politician. “Why don’t I become a circus clown?” he replied in 2012 to a journalist who asked him about a future political career.
But events intervened, and Carney takes over at perhaps the most difficult time in modern Canadian history, as it tries to fend off Trump’s imperial ambitions.
“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” Carney said in his victory speech. “The system of open global trade anchored by the United States—a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for our country for decades—is over.”
“These are tragedies, but it’s also our new reality.”
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