Mark Carney Wins Canada’s Pivotal Election

TIME

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election on Monday, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.

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00:00You know, I chose to enter politics because I felt we needed big changes in this country.

00:06But big changes guided by strong Canadian values.

00:12America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.

00:19Never.

00:21But these are not idle threats.

00:24President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.

00:31That will never, that will never ever happen.

00:36But we, but we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.

00:46There is also, for me, as I stand before you this evening, humility in recognizing that,

00:56well, many have chosen to place your trust in me, trust in the Liberal Party.

01:04Millions of our fellow citizens preferred a different outcome.

01:08Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over.

01:18The system of open global trade, anchored by the United States,

01:24a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War,

01:28a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades.

01:34It's, when I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship

01:42between two sovereign nations.

01:49And it will be, with our full knowledge, that we have many, many other options than the United States

01:58to build prosperity for all Canadians.

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