Mark Carney calls in Canada Snap elections in the middle of Trump threats

Prime Minister Mark Carney from Canada called on Sunday for a federal election on April 28, which was set on the calendar another major event, since the country experiences one of the most turbulent and unpredictable period.

President Trump has imposed painful tariffs on Canada and said that more will come while at the same time threatening his sovereignty, the closest ally and trading partner of America and emerging decades of collaboration in all areas.

“We face the most important crisis of our life due to the unjustified trading campaigns of President Trump and his threats to our sovereignty,” said Carney and spoke to the news media in Ottawa.

“President Trump claims that Canada is not a real country. He wants to break us so that America can have us,” he added. “We won’t allow that. We’re over the shock of betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.”

Mr. Carney, 60, a political beginner with a long career in the central banks and in finance, was only elected leader of the Canadian Liberal Party on March 9th and sworn in on March 14 as Prime Minister. He replaced Justin Trudeau, who had led the liberals for 13 years and the country for almost a decade, but was deeply unpopulated.

Mr. Carney had generally expected to call for a quick choice. He has no seat in the Canadian parliament, and the liberals do not master a majority, which means that their government would fall into a vote of non -confidence on Monday after not demanding the election.

The main opponents of the liberals are the conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre.

Mr. Trump’s aggressive attitude towards Canada was a blessing for the liberals and Mr. Carney. Before Mr. Trump accepted his office, the conservatives were two -digit in surveys and a victory for Mr. Pioilievre seemed to be a comment.

However, the voters have been concerned that Mr. Poilievre is too ideologically similar to stand against him, and many are attracted to the experience of Mr. Carney and the long career on the international stage.

Polls show that Mr. Carney and the Liberals have eliminated a 25 percent top lead held by the conservative, and the two enter the neck and tease of the election time.

Shortly before Mr. Carney called the election on Sunday morning, Mr. Poilievre tried to distance himself from the perception that he matched Mr. Trump.

“What we have to do is to put Canada in the first place to change,” said Piilievre and repeated the core slogan of his campaign. “When I say I want to reduce taxes, release our resources, bring jobs back, that’s bad news for President Trump.”

Who runs?

Mr. Carney and the Liberals become a part of Mr. Trump’s style against the conservatives and Mr. Poilievre, 45, a career politician who made himself an aggressive speaker without fear.

Mr. Poilievre is a mainstream-conservative one that has long supported deregulation, tax cuts and a task of environmental policy from Trudeau era to enable Canada to improve the exploitation of its huge natural resources, mostly oil and gas.

Mr. Poilievre has also converted into cultural war issues and borrowed the language of Mr. Trump: he attacks practices and politicians as “waxed”, demanded the discovery of the Canadian National Radio and said that he believes that there are only two genders.

He also said that he would like to make Canada a cryptocurrency capital of the world and show the same affinity for the alternative financial asset as Mr. Trump.

In contrast, Mr. Carney has been in public for decades, but not in political function. He was governor of the Bank of Canada during the global financial crisis of 2008 and the Bank of England during Brexit.

Since then he has worked in high -ranking roles in the private sector and has become a prominent lawyer for sustainable investments in recent years and took on a role as a special commission of the United Nations for Climate Industry and Finance.

In the few days in which he was in office, Mr. Carney on the global stage is fluently economically and comfortable, but less accustomed to the exact examination of his personal matters, which is not unusual for people who run for a high public office.

He has proven to be more centrally than his predecessor, Mr. Trudeau. On Sunday, when he announced the Snap elections, Mr. Carney also promised tax cuts for the lowest income class. In the past few days, he has taken over some of the more central positions by Mr. Poilievre, including scraping a household and small tax tax on carbon emissions and the cancellation of a planned tax increase for capital profits.

The third in the lower house, the Bloc Quebececeis, is led by Yves-François Blanchet and is dedicated to Quebec’s nationalism.

Canada’s fourth largest party, the new Democratic Party, led by Jagmeet Singh, is on the left of the liberals. The NDP supported the liberal government of minorities in the lower house until September and was able to have some of its core social policy approved in exchange, but surveys indicate that their support becomes weaker.

How do Canada’s elections work?

Canada has an election system for the first post. The voters choose local members of the House of Commons, not the individual party leaders as in a presidential system. Parties choose their leaders, who can then become prime minister.

The country is divided into 343 constituencies, which are known as ridings in Canada and each correspond to one seat in the lower house.

In order to form a majority government, a party must win 172 seats. If the party has less than 172 with most of the seats, it can still form a minority government, however, it would have to need the support of another party to adopt laws.

What happens next?

In the run -up to the election, Mr. Carney will remain Prime Minister and continue to lead the country technically together with his cabinet. However, they will be in the “caretaker” mode and can only concentrate on the necessary business under Canadian congresses, e.g. B. on routine or urgent matters. You cannot make any new main or controversy decisions.

The parties and their managers will immediately reach the campaign path. For Mr. Carney, this will be a critical time, as he is not an experienced activist in contrast to Mr. Poilievre, who is experienced in retail policy.

Both men will travel to the huge country to try to secure support. The campaign of Mr. Carney is open to journalists to travel with him.

Mr. Poilievre’s campaign said that the news media would not allow himself to join him on trips, and emphasized that their decision was for logistical reasons and that the reporting of messages was welcomed.