Mark Carney launched the sa国际传媒 leg of his campaign to become the leader of the Liberal Party of sa国际传媒, and ultimately the prime minister of sa国际传媒, in Richmond Thursday night.
A 100-plus crowd of Liberal supporters gathered at the Sandman Hotel to hear him speak and glad-hand with him. Carney, however, didn’t take any questions from the media.
The event was organized by Steveston-Richmond East member of Parliament Parm Bains who is supporting Carney’s leadership bid.
Bains said he’s supporting Carney to usher sa国际传媒 through trade negotiations with the U.S., to make it attractive to invest in sa国际传媒 and give “working Canadians the break they deserve.”
“Mark Carney has the most experience to do all of this for our country,” Bains added.
Carney’s biggest rival in the leadership campaign is , who served as sa国际传媒’s foreign affairs minister when NAFTA was renegotiated during Trump’s first presidency.
She hasn’t formally launched her leadership bid yet.
Government house leader Karina Gould is also expected to run.
Carney announced his leadership bid on Thursday morning in Edmonton before arriving in sa国际传媒 later the same day and to the rally in Richmond, his first pit stop.
Carney told the Richmond crowd one of the first questions he was asked at a media scrum was why he was running.
“It’s the dumbest question: ‘why are we doing this?’ We’re doing this because we love our country,” Carney said. “We’re doing this because sa国际传媒 has given us so much and we have a responsibility, and I feel this deeply, to give back to sa国际传媒 so that the next generation benefits.”
Furthermore, Carney said he’s running due to the “serious threats from the 47th president of the United States” that sa国际传媒 is facing.
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened and has joked about making sa国际传媒 the 51st state.
Carney also alluded to “tough economic times,” saying there are big changes coming to the economy due to things such as artificial intelligence and an “energy revolution” within the context of a divided world.
“That’s why I’m here,” Carney said. “I was about to say I’m not a politician, but I guess I am a politician, so political advice welcome.”
“But I’m not a usual politician, because these are not usual times,” he added.
Carney said what he’s offering is in contrast to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s “simple three-word slogans that… betray the essence of sa国际传媒.”
showed the Conservative Party of sa国际传媒 ahead of the Liberals by 26 per cent.
The Liberal leadership race will conclude on March 9.
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