Category: Prime Minister

Canada’s New Liberal PM Vows To ‘Never’ Yield To Trump In Hostile Victory Speech

TOPSHOT - Canada's Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney speaks after being elected as the new Liberal Party leader, in Ottawa on March 9, 2025. Canada's Liberal Party overwhelmingly elected Mark Carney as its new leader and the country's next prime minister on March 9, 2025, tasking the former central banker with helming Ottawa's response to threats from US President Donald Trump. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Canada’s Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney. (DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
2:17 PM – Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Newly-elected Liberal Party Canadian Prime Minister (PM) Mark Carney stated that Canada will “never” bow down to the United States during his victory speech — exemplifying a “hostile” warning to President Donald Trump.

“As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us,” Carney stated. “That will never happen.”

“We are past the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” he continued.

Carney’s comments were seemingly in response to President Trump calling for Canada to become the “51st state” of the U.S., citing the “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year” in subsidies that the U.S. provides Canada with.

President Trump also issued a message to Canadians on the day of the election, suggesting that they should consider becoming the 51st state of America — in order to avoid high tariffs.

“Good luck to the great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the world, and have your Cars, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses QUADRUPLE in size WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES if Canada becomes the cherished 51st state,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

“Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!” he added.

After congratulating Carney on the Liberals’ election victory, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his own seat in Parliament after holding it since 2004. Carney pitched himself as the strongest candidate to oppose President Trump as he ran in the liberal party, vowing to strike back against Trump’s tariffs.

“We will always put Canada first as we stare down tariffs and other irresponsible threats from President Trump,” he stated, while warning the nation that there are “tough days ahead” due to President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.

60-year-old Carney was a former banker who spent decades in finance.

“I understand how the world works,” Carney stated on an October podcast. “I know people who run some of the world’s largest companies and understand how they work. I know how financial institutions work. I know how markets work … I’m trying to apply that to the benefit of Canada.”

Additionally, Carney stated that he plans to strengthen ties with more “reliable” allies other than the U.S., although he declined to rule out talks with Trump. Carney also added that when he does eventually speak with Trump, “it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations.”

“And it will be with the full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the US to build prosperity for all Canadians,” he added.

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Mark Carney Sworn In As Canada’s Prime Minister, Says He ‘Respects’ Trump

Mark Carney arrives ahead of his swearing-in ceremony as Canada's 24th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carney, a former central banker, replaces Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader as the country faces a trade war with the United States. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
Mark Carney arrives ahead of his swearing-in ceremony as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carney, a former central banker, replaces Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader as the country faces a trade war with the United States. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
10:00 AM – Saturday, March 15, 2025

Mark Carney has been sworn in as the prime minister of Canada saying he is willing to work with U.S. President Donald Trump.

On Friday, Carney was sworn in as prime minister after Justin Trudeau stepped down.

Trudeau did not have the best relationship with Trump. But Carney said his approach would be different.

“We respect President Trump – President Trump has put some very important issues at the top of his agenda. We understand his agenda,” he told reporters after being sworn in, noting he had worked with Trump at international meetings.

“In many respects, part of my experience overlaps with that of the President – we’re both looking out for our countries. But he knows, and I know from long experience, that we can find mutual solutions that win for both,” he said.

However, Carney said that Canada “will never, ever in any way, shape or form be part of the United States.”

In a farewell message posted on X, Trudeau said: “Thank you, Canada – for trusting in me, for challenging me, and for granting me the privilege to serve the best country, and the best people, on earth.”

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Outgoing PM Trudeau Declares Trade War In Response To Trump Tariffs: ‘We Will Not Back Down’

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference about the US tariffs against Canada on March 4, 2025 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, as (L-R) Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc and Minister of Public Safety David McGuinty look on. Trudeau said that President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada to destroy the country's economy to make it easier for the United States to annex its northern neighbor. The extraordinary warning about Trump's threat to Canadian sovereignty came as the US president delivered on his vow to impose 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference about the US tariffs against Canada on March 4, 2025 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, as (L-R) Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc and Minister of Public Safety David McGuinty look on. (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
12:10 PM – Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused President Donald Trump of declaring a “dumb” trade war on Canada — maintaining that his country “will not back down.”

Trudeau spoke publicly hours after Trump enacted new tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China.

He announced a 25% levy on “C$30 billion worth of U.S. imports, effective immediately.” Tariffs on another C$125 billion in U.S. goods will take effect in 21 days, he added, CNBC reported.

The prime minister went on to warn Trump and the U.S.

“A fight with Canada will have no winners,” Trudeau asserted as he addressed reporters in Ottawa while discussing the country’s response to the tariffs. “They point out that even though you’re a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do,” he continued, addressing the president by his first name, Donald.

Trudeau pleaded for Canadians to “pull together,” and he vowed that Americans will feel the impact of these tariffs. Additionally, the outgoing Canadian leader accused Trump of purposely imposing the tariffs in an effort to collapse the Canadian economy — in order to make it easier to annex the country.

“We will never be the 51st state, but he can do damage to the Canadian economy, and he’s started this morning, but he is rapidly going to find out, as American families are going to find out, that that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.”

Canada has the world’s ninth largest economy and sits at around $2.3 trillion, which is only nearly the same size as the U.S. state of New York.

 

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Nevertheless, Canada is still known for providing the U.S. a number of agricultural products, including grains such as wheat, barley, and oats, along with meat products like beef, pork, and poultry.

The U.S. also imports vehicles and auto parts from Canada, including cars, trucks, engines, transmissions, tires, and other components.

Trudeau later mentioned that he still has not spoken with Trump since the tariffs were put into effect.

“Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally — their closest friend. Canadians are reasonable, but we will not back down from a fight,” he wrote on X.

This comes after Trudeau already announced “retaliatory tariffs” on $30 billion Canadian dollars ($20.7 billion) worth of American goods.

In response, Trump confidently threatened to increase Canada’s tariffs even more on Tuesday.

“Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!” he wrote on his Truth Social account.

Trudeau has insisted that Canadians don’t “hate” Americans, but he described the tariffs as a response to a “policy decision by the American government designed to go after the Canadian economy.”

“I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don’t want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don’t want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, the markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically,” Trudeau told reporters.

During his announcement, Trudeau also urged Canadians to use their own country’s products, boycott American products, and stop vacationing in Florida.

Canada’s provincial premiers are expected to give their own addresses regarding the retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday.

In one of the first retaliatory measures announced, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that his state was officially canceling its contract with Elon Musk-owned Starlink — which helps people in times of disaster when their electricity goes out.

This comes after Trump’s tariffs went into full effect just after midnight on Tuesday, in what the president cited were failures of Mexico, Canada, and China to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl coming into the U.S.

Mexico is expected to respond with retaliatory measures on U.S. goods on Sunday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Tuesday.

“There is no motive or reason, nor justification that supports this decision that will affect our people and our nation,” she said.

Trudeau’s likely successor, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, similarly announced that Canada will fight this.

“At 12:01 a.m., President Trump stabbed America’s best friend in the back. My message to the president is this — Canada will fight back,” he announced in a statement.

The new tariffs, which went into effect on Tuesday, impose a 25% levy on the U.S.’s North American neighbors and 20% on China.

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PM Netanyahu: “Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them? Monsters.

“Today is a tragic day. It’s a day of boundless sorrow, of indescribable pain. Four-year-old Ariel Bibas, his baby brother one-year-old Kfir and 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz were brutally murdered by Hamas savages. Their bodies will return home to a nation in mourning. A nation that will never forget or forgive the evil that cut down these beautiful souls. Since that black day on October 7th, when Hamas butchered and burned 1,200 of our families and friends, Israel waited with bated breath, hoping beyond hope that our hostages would survive the Hamas hell. Against all odds, we succeeded in bringing many home. Some we rescued. Some we tragically couldn't. The Bibas children in particular became the symbol of who we are, and who we're fighting against. Here is a photo of the Bibas brothers. These "perfect children," again, were four years old and less than one year old when the Hamas savages snatched them from their mother's arms. She fought like a lioness to protect her boys. Just imagine their horror. Imagine their confusion. Perfect little children who never hurt a soul. A baby, for the love of God. They languished in captivity until Hamas murdered them in cold blood. Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them? Monsters. That's who. These Hamas monsters also cynically refused to bring back the boys’ mother, Shiri, and sent the body of a Gazan woman instead, in brazen violation of the agreement. Today the heavens shake. The entire civilized world should condemn these horrific murders.The entire civilized world should join Israel in demanding the immediate release of all the hostages. All of Israel is united in grief. And as the prime minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth. Nothing will stop me. Nothing. Ariel, Kfir and Oded: I am so sorry we couldn't save you from the monsters who did this. We honor your kind and loving souls, so tragically cut down by evil terror. May your memory forever be a blessing and a reminder to all of us that we must fight this evil and eradicate it from the face of this earth”.

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