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Mark Carney will lead a “everything except Trump” coalition

The worldwide importance of Mark Carney's choice as a Canadian prime minister is that he is now at the center of an alternative pole of global economic thinking. Everything except Trump.

Here there was half an anticipation that Carney would immediately sue President Trump for peace when the elections had completed the election. It did not happen.

In the last days of the survey, in his victory speech in Ottawa and in his interview with me, he clearly intends to continue the approach that has brought him to a chosen power, a majority still possible. Even if he just no longer stays in the majority, two of the other main party leaders have lost their seats and will probably register to a certain extent behind a United Canada agenda on the United States.

It is an absolute conviction that the United States makes a mistake that will primarily and visible against itself, its companies and its consumers. The fact that the White House of Amazon for “enemy acts” attacks when the tariffs are published is a castic example of this. President Trump's weapon is mainly shown on his own feet that thinks.

Jordan Peterson, a relentless opponent of Mark Carney, recently complained about in Joe Rogan's podcast: “As soon as Carney is elected, Trump will not have an experienced enemy in the West. Carney is particularly well connected in Europe and Great Britain.”

While “enemy” transmits it, Peterson was right, and Carney is also very clever in understanding the connection between markets and headlines. He made a number of announcements as a PM to rethink the purchase of US fighting aircraft and easily changed the purchases of the US government's debt, which would have concentrated all some thoughts in the USA quickly.

Nevertheless, there are considerable potential economic damage, which are organized by these tariffs for a Canadian economy, with three quarters of its exports to the USA. There is no gone.

Carney's answer during the campaign was that the United States is changing and diversifying. A credible pressure in this direction could also help every chance of US companies, congress or forces within the administration, which is due to the tariffs.

Carney was very clear to me that he was not in a hurry to go to the White House or Mar-A-Lago.

“We will have a partnership on our conditions. There is a win-win option, but on our conditions, not on your conditions,” he said.

An essential part of this is the demand for new strategic alliances elsewhere, Europe and Great Britain. “It would be assumed that Canada and Great Britain could hold a free trade agreement that had stalled, he told me. Cooperation in defense and Canada's plenty of critical minerals is also on the table. He also released President Trump's territorial ambitions not only for his country, but also for Greenland and Panama.

On the campaign path in his hometown Edmonton I heard him say “America's leadership of the global economy is over” and that was a “tragedy”. Implicit, he says, he will appear with the help of the rest of the G7.

And through an incredible peculiarity of fate, he will organize the G7 summit in Alberta in June, just a few days before President Trump's “mutual” tariffs. Will Trump be present on the country that he covets both tariffs and?

All streets lead to Kananaskis in mid -June.

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