After Leading a Liberal Comeback, Carney Hits the Ground Running

Four days after winning his first elected office and leading the Liberal Party while remained in power, Prime Minister Mark Carney presented a legislative agenda and a broad legislative agenda for his new government.

At a press conference on Friday, Mr. Carney’s great announcement would go to Washington on Tuesday to open negotiations with President Trump about economic and commercial matters. Tariffs of 25 percent of the United States on vehicles made in Canadian, steel and aluminum, of course, had had a great duration in the campaign.

[Read: Canada’s Prime Minister to Visit Trump Amid Trade Battle]

And on election day, the president of the United States had once again repeated his vote to the Annex of Canada as State 51.

[Read: Even on Canada’s Election Day, Trump Again Insists Country Should Join U.S.]

But Carney said that when he spoke with Trump the day after the elections, Canada’s sovereignty had not emerged.

And Mr. Trump publicly praised the prime minister, calling him “a very pleasant gentleman.” But well, they also said that Mr. Carney and his main opponent, Pierre Poilievre, both “hated Trump” the campaign.

“It was the one who hated Trump, I think the least, what he won,” Trump said, duration of his cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “I think the conservative hated me much more than the liberal call.”

Carney sacrificed few details on Friday about his plan to deal with Mr. Trump, saying he did not want to negotiate in public. But he firmly said that Canada’s sovereignty was not negotiable.

For both liberals and conservatives, the choice was a mixed bag. Under Mr. Carney, the liberals took their highest percentage of the vote since 1984, but only 169 seats, at the end of the 172 necessary for most in the House of Commons. (The validation process of Canada’s elections and elections can still alter that total).

Mr. Poilievre led the conservatives to most of the vote and obtained seats, particularly in Ontario, still lost.

[Read: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Canada’s Prime Minister on Anti-Trump Platform]

[Read: Canada’s Liberals Narrowly Miss Out on Majority in Parliament]

[Read: Mark Carney’s Liberals Win Canada’s Election. Here Are 4 Takeaways.]

Nuncaberness, Liberal Victoria was one of the most extraordinary returns in recent Canadian political history. Only a few months ago, before Trump’s attacks against Canadian sovereignty and the resignation of Justin Trudeau as prime minister, the liberals were following the conservatives up to 27 percentage points in the surveys.

But it is unlikely that Canadians cut Mr. Carney, a former banker, any slack for being a rookie politician while learning at work, writes Matina Stevis-Gridneff, our head of the Canadian office.

[Read: Mark Carney Swept Canada, but There Will Be No Honeymoon]

[Watch: The One Big Reason Canada’s Liberals Won]

And in opinion, Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute, A NONPROFIT POLLING ORGANIZATION, WRITES THAT AFTER THE Vote, “The World is Watching Canada Like Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub System Neighbor to Neighbor to NightBor to Nightbor to Night to Neighbor to Neight Nightbor to our neighbor to Nightbor A Nightborer “. “” “” “” “”. “” “” “Mrs. Kurl argues that” Canada’s imperative today should be to rethink its place in the world beyond the United States. “

[Read in Opinion: The World Is Watching Canada]

For Mr. Poilievre, the disappointment was aggravated by losing his seat in Carleton, the suburban and rural walk in the Ottawa area he has had for 21 years. Bruce Fajoy, a politician for the first time, bothered him to claim the liberal seat.

Mr. Fajoy deserves credit for spending two solid campaign work years in Carleton. But when I left the morning after the vote, I discovered that many people, including conservatives, were still angry about the support of Mr. Poilievre to the truck driver who occupied and paralyzed much of the center of Ottawa in 2022.

On Friday, Damien Kurek, a conservative, said he would resign from his seat in Alberta, the province of origin of Mr. Poilievre, to allow him to run for him in a partial choice and return to Parliament. Mr. Carney said that he would not delay that vote, although he has the power to postpone it up to six months.

The new Parliament will begin on May 26. The next day, it will bring even more novelty: the discourse of the throne, the government map of the government to its legislative plans, will be a general reader, as usual, but by King Charles.

The speech has been read by a monarch since 1977, when Queen Elizabeth made the honors. Mr. Carney presents the rare event as an affirmation of Canada’s sovereignty against Trump’s designs in the country.

“I know that many Canadians share my enthusiasm for this,” said Mr. Carney on Friday.

Then, a French -speaking journalist asked that having a member of “The British Crown” read the discourse of the throne in Quebec. Mr. Carney fought.

“That decision highlights Canada’s sovereignty as a nation,” he said in French. “It is a very clear message for another field night in the world.”

But when he is pressed to explain how the presence of some acquaintances around the world as the king of Great Britain would send that message, his response crumbled.

“Underline, this is the last head of state, who underlines him, you know, one of the points I did,” he said, before naming “the founding peoples of Canada.”

Ian Austen Reports about Canada for OTTAWA headquarters. It covers the politics, culture and people of Canada and has reported on the country for two decades. You can eat in austen@nytimes.com.

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