‘American Betrayal!’ New Canadian PM Mark Carney Torches Trump in Victory Speech After Election Win
Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney used his election night victory speech to shred President Donald Trump’s threats against Canadian sovereignty — and vowed Canada would never become America’s “51st state.”
Carney made Trump the centerpiece of his remarks after his Liberal Party clinched a narrow edge over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. While short of a majority, the Liberals’ win marks a stunning political comeback fueled largely by a surge in nationalist sentiment after Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.
“President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never — that will never, ever happen,” Carney declared Monday night in Ottawa, the same day Trump made a further jibe at the country joining the U.S.
“As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country: never,” he said. “But these are not idle threats: President Trump is trying to break us, so America can own us. That will never, ever happen.”
He continued, condemning the Trump administration for what he called an “American betrayal” and warning Canadians that “the system of open global trade anchored by the United States is over.”
“We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” he said, continuing to say that any “future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations” will be overshadowed by the “full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.”
Future talks with Trump, he said, would reflect Canada’s full sovereignty and a willingness to “build, baby, build” with other global partners.
Carney added that said Canadians will “need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.”
“It’s time to build hundreds of thousands of not just good jobs, but good careers in the skilled trades… It’s time to build Canada into an energy superpower in both clean and conventional energy, and it’s time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change,” he said.
He continued: “The point is that we can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away the but even given that, I want to be clear, the coming days and months will be challenging, and they will call for some sacrifices, but we will share those sacrifices by supporting our workers and our businesses.”
Poilievre, a populist who borrowed heavily from Trump’s combative playbook, conceded defeat and pledged his party would “do our job to hold the government to account.”
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