Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
Now, Carney has his hands full, to make as he has promised, “Canada strong, Canada, free, Canada, forever. .”
The first thing he has to look into is transforming the economy. Then comes foreign policy. He will be meeting US President Donald Trump “in the near future.”
To nobody’s surprise, as mentioned earlier, both leaders spoke on the phone on Tuesday. A rather good beginning, so to say.
Writing about Carney’s victory, the Conversation noted that Canada’s 2025 federal election will be remembered as a “game-changer.”
To understand the nuances, one need to read it along with The Guardian piece by Leyland Cecco who rightly attributed Carney’s victory to Trump and circumstance.
He recalled that half a year ago the Liberal was in crisis before political reality forced Justin Trudeau to step down.
While Labour struggled with internal issues, Donald Trump began to suggest – seemingly in earnest – that the US should annex Canada and making it the 51st state, a mission he said could be accomplished with economic coercion.
“The thing to remember is that Carney candidacy, absent this crisis, would have felt different,” Cecco quoted Peter Donolo, a political strategist and director of communications for prime minister Jean Chrétien. “His mistakes would have been more, would have been enlarged. He would have come under more criticism and scrutiny.”
However, Tonda MacCharles writing in Toronto Star, saw the outcome this way: “In fact, Canadian voters delivered a rebuke to all parties — denying the Liberals a majority; denying the Conservative leader his own seat, never mind the chance to form a government as his strategists had believed was possible; reducing the Quebec separatist party to a much smaller Bloc; depriving the NDP of official party status; and stripping the Greens down to a lone seat in Parliament.”
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
