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Nick Harper: Political Analyst on Mark Carney winning the Canadian Election · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the Trump was speaking of was real. Cannie's won
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian election. Insult to injury this morning for Pierre Pogiev,
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  Speaker 1: the guy Cannie beat. He's projicted to lose his seat
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  Speaker 1: in the House of Commons too. He's held it for
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  Speaker 1: twenty years now. Some Liberals going to take it off him.
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  Speaker 1: He's lost the chance of becoming prime minister, end his seat.
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  Speaker 1: That is a bad day at the office. Feature Storing
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  Speaker 1: News political analyst Nick Harper's with us this morning. Nick,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. That's pretty embarrassing for him,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a complete disaster, Like you say, he has been
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  Speaker 2: and then being for a very long time. He's been
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  Speaker 2: there and he's been going through a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: And he thought three months ago that he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be leading Canada into the foreseeable future. But then
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  Speaker 2: we saw this tremendous turnaround in the polls. The Conservatives'
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  Speaker 2: double point lead suddenly completely fell away, and going into
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  Speaker 2: the election the Liberals were leading it. As we saw
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  Speaker 2: on the light, the Liberals took a fourth term, Mark
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  Speaker 2: Carney remaining as the Prime Minister. He was there for
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks ahead of the election after he took
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  Speaker 2: over from Justin Trudea, so he will now be serving
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  Speaker 2: a full term as Prime minister. Before Donald Trump came
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  Speaker 2: into office, this seemed unthinkable because Canada was quite simply
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  Speaker 2: fed up with Liberals, fed up with Justin Trudeau at
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  Speaker 2: the head of the party. He stepped down at a
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  Speaker 2: time when he was particularly unpopular, and the thinking was
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  Speaker 2: that this was going to be a referendum on Justin
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  Speaker 2: Trudeau and therefore the other party, the Conservatives, would have won.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what happened, largely because of the Trump effect
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  Speaker 2: and everything that he's been saying about Canada over the
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  Speaker 2: last few.
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  Speaker 1: Monthsick obviously an incredible feat for him, But is this
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder, is this the high tide mark for
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  Speaker 1: Matt Canney. You know, sure Trump helped unite Canada, but
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  Speaker 1: all of those problems that had Polly of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: points that here just a few weeks ago haven't gone away.
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  Speaker 1: The cost of living, the crime and you've had a
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  Speaker 1: decade of liberal rule. Now he's got a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a job, doesn't he He has.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are plenty of problems that many Canadians were
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  Speaker 2: unhappy with, housing, the cost of living, problems with the
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  Speaker 2: healthcare system, immigration. All of those problems are things that
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  Speaker 2: Mark Carney needs to tackle while also trying to unite
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  Speaker 2: the country around Donald Trump. We could see tariffs potentially
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  Speaker 2: disappear overnight. We know that Donald Trump likes to change
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  Speaker 2: things really day by day with one tweet or another.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, if those all disappear suddenly, this reason why
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  Speaker 2: he was elected as Prime minister vanishes, and those big
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  Speaker 2: problems that Canadians really want to be dealt with something
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  Speaker 2: that he will then have to tackle. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a tough time for him. He has
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous to do list to try and work out.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not without mentioning the fact that he will
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with his nearest neighbor, the United States,
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  Speaker 2: and try and work out a trade policy in a
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  Speaker 2: way that the two countries can move forward together. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, just quickly thing that one hundred and seventy two
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  Speaker 1: the magic number for a majority with no idea yet
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  Speaker 1: whither they've got.
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  Speaker 2: The yet no, not quite there yet, And it could
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  Speaker 2: be that, you know, he will need to scrabble around
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  Speaker 2: for some other parties to be able to build that coalition.
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  Speaker 2: It could be difficult for him to do, and of
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  Speaker 2: course that reduces his ability is mandate to lead the country. Certainly,
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  Speaker 2: if he hasn't got quite the majority, then he needs one.
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  Speaker 1: Nick appreciate your time. Great to have you on feature
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  Speaker 1: story and news political analyst Nick Harper with us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Quebequa is the party That'll hold.
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