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Rachel Aiello: Canadian correspondent on what we can expect from Canada's new Prime Minister · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Brian Bridge five seventeen Here on News Talk SEB. Former
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  Speaker 2: Canadian and English Central banker. Yes, the banker has won.
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  Speaker 2: The governor Mark Karney will be Canada's next prime minister
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  Speaker 2: after Trudeau said goodbye and resigned. He won the Liberal
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  Speaker 2: Party's internal leadership election eighty five percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 2: so the party likes him. The question is will the
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  Speaker 2: Canadian people. Here's some of his acceptance speech. I know
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  Speaker 2: that these are dark days, dark days brought on by
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  Speaker 2: a country we can no longer trust.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to look out for each other.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me is Rachel Alo. She's with CTV, the National
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  Speaker 2: correspondent covering politics. They are joining us from ottitor Rachel Hello, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how are you very well? Thank you? So tell us
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  Speaker 2: all about the new leader, Mark Carney. Who is he?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? So, Mark Carney is a former Bank of Canada
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  Speaker 3: governor as well as the former governor of the Bank
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  Speaker 3: of England. He is a relative political newcomer. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have a seat in our House of Commons, so he's
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  Speaker 3: not an elected member of parliament. Yet, but he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of rumored entering into the political force really ramped up
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  Speaker 3: this summer into the fall, and then of course we
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  Speaker 3: saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resign and within ten days
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  Speaker 3: of that resignation announcement, Mark Carney threw his heart into
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  Speaker 3: the ring, and just here in Ottawa tonight has been
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  Speaker 3: elected the next Liberal leader of a federal party here
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  Speaker 3: in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Already you've got the Conservatives coming out and attacking him, saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to trick you, the Liberals trying to trick
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  Speaker 2: you into a fourth term now that Trudeau's gone, is
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  Speaker 2: there because he's obviously being the head of the central
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  Speaker 2: bank in the UK and in Canada. Is that part
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  Speaker 2: of the strategy to try and push that those economic
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  Speaker 2: credentials for the Canadian voters.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely it is. I think at this current moment, with
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  Speaker 3: this ongoing trade war with the United States, the state
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  Speaker 3: of the Canadian economy and who is best place to
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  Speaker 3: manage it is going to be one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: ballot questions in our upcoming federal election. I think what
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  Speaker 3: is also behind the conservative attacks in this country is
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  Speaker 3: what we've seen in the polls. The Liberals under Justin
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  Speaker 3: Trudeau were very far behind. The Conservative had about a
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  Speaker 3: twenty point lead when Trudeau resigned, and over the last
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  Speaker 3: two months since we've seen a real resurgence of Liberals.
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  Speaker 3: They were kind of buoyed by the Liberal leadership race,
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  Speaker 3: new interest in the party that Trudeau was going to
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  Speaker 3: be stepping aside, and some of that was interested in
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  Speaker 3: Carnie as an alternative option for those voters who wanted change.
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  Speaker 3: But then this question of who is best to handle
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump came up and the paliav Conservatives have kind
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  Speaker 3: of struggled to land their talking points on that one.
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  Speaker 3: So the Conservatives are going full force against Karne now
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  Speaker 3: because they're seeing this shift, seeing a lot of Canadians
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  Speaker 3: being interested in the Liberals once again, when as of
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  Speaker 3: just a few months ago, it was basically the next
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  Speaker 3: election was Paliev to lose. So that is kind of
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  Speaker 3: where the Conservatives are coming from. I think Karney's credentials
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  Speaker 3: as someone who they've kind of taken aim at think
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  Speaker 3: he's re kind of inflated his involvement in helping Canada
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  Speaker 3: through the global financial crisis back in two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: eight two thousand and nine, and then questioning his inexperience
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  Speaker 3: as a political leader, which actually in his speech tonight,
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  Speaker 3: Karney took direct aim at Polly Evan, saying, well, I
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  Speaker 3: have experienced in this other than what Polia has, who
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  Speaker 3: is a Conservative Party leader, has been in the House
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  Speaker 3: of Commons, a member of Parliament for basically his entire career, so.
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  Speaker 2: He's an institutionalized politician. I suppose will be the a
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  Speaker 2: tech line. Does this mean we could.
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  Speaker 3: See direct and Karney is the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Does this mean we could say the considers net come
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  Speaker 2: at hotter against Trump.
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  Speaker 3: It's possible. I'm really curious to hear where the Conservatives go.
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  Speaker 3: We've saw the Conservatives in the last little while try
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  Speaker 3: to kind of really wrap themselves around the Canadian flag
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  Speaker 3: and talk about this message of Canada First. But Carney
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  Speaker 3: has now put out a clear counter to that tonight,
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  Speaker 3: to being this new slogan of Canada Strong. So it'll
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  Speaker 3: be an interesting We are anticipating now the federal election
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  Speaker 3: could be called within a week. Carney now has to
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  Speaker 3: go through the transition process to a formally become Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 3: Once that happens, he will have the power to trigger
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  Speaker 3: an election, which a lot of folks here in Canada
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  Speaker 3: are thinking is the most likely next step because he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have a seat. Why would he go into Parliament,
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  Speaker 3: go into the House of Commons and kind of call
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  Speaker 3: out the fact that he's not elected instead use that
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  Speaker 3: as a talking point to justify to Canadians. Why now
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  Speaker 3: is the time that he needs a strong and mandate
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  Speaker 3: to go to the polls and then see that battle
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  Speaker 3: play it between the Liberals and Conservatives in a wait
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  Speaker 3: it just a few months ago, I think is going
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  Speaker 3: to play quite differently suddenly.
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  Speaker 2: Expected really interesting. Rachel, Thank you for that. Rachel alo
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  Speaker 2: CTV national correspondent covering politics out of Ossawa in Canada.
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