Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has announced that the nationwide race to choose the next leader of the party will conclude on March 9.
On Jan. 6, Trudeau (shown above and with Joe Biden at right) announced that he will step down from his leadership position as polls consistently show his party trailing the Conservatives. There are six candidates vying for leadership of the Liberal Party, and the ultimate winner will become Prime Minister at least until National elections take place. Mark Carney, who has never held a seat in Parliament, is considered the favorite to win.
Brian Rushfeldt is former president of Canada Family Action.
"It's becoming very, very clear that Carney is the one that the Liberal elite who run the party have already picked. Regardless of how the vote
turns out, they've picked him as the leader of the party. That means he will automatically become the Prime Minister. Even though he has never been elected to any office in his life, he becomes the Prime Minister running our country, which is absolutely atrocious in most people's view."
Rushfeldt says Carney clearly supports a far-left agenda.
“He's clearly a supporter of the World Economic Federation. He's also been a pusher of every environmental program that has ever been thought up by the activists. Electric cars are a prime example. Electric cars will never be the solution because it's impractical, and yet that's what they keep pushing."
Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, has also promised a dollar-for-dollar tariff retaliation against U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump announced 25% tariffs against Canada over the weekend, but that’s in a holding pattern now as Trudeau considers how Canada can help slow the fentanyl coming across is border into the U.S.
"Dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs by Canada should be a given and they should be aimed where their impacts in the United States will be felt the hardest,” Carney told CBC News.
