加拿大周日晚上选出了新的当选总理，接替贾斯廷·特鲁多的统治接近尾声在与美国的贸易战中。
加拿大自由党宣布，在该党成员在四名候选人之间的提名竞争中投票后，马克·卡尼被选为特鲁多的继任者。
卡尼在接受提名的演讲中谈到了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普对加拿大的关税以及特朗普对该国构成的威胁，称当前的事件是“我们一生中最大的危机”。
卡尼说:“我们没有要求这场战斗，但加拿大人总是在别人放下手套时做好准备，所以美国人应该不会犯错，在贸易和曲棍球比赛中，加拿大将会赢。”
卡尼间接回应了特朗普让加拿大成为美国第51个州的呼吁，他补充说，“美国不是加拿大，加拿大永远不会以任何方式、形式或形式成为美国的一部分。”
卡尼还批评特朗普对加拿大商品征收的关税，并表示他支持加拿大对美国征收的报复性关税。
“正如我们所知，唐纳德·特朗普对我们建造的东西、我们出售的东西、我们谋生的方式征收不合理的关税，他在攻击加拿大的工人、企业和家庭...我们不能让他成功，我们也不会让他成功，”卡尼说。“我的政府将继续征收关税，直到美国人尊重我们。”
卡尼预计将在本周某个时候由加拿大总督宣誓就职，总督是英国查尔斯三世在加拿大的代表。
预计新当选的自由党领袖将立即呼吁最早在4月下旬举行选举。
特鲁多于2015年11月首次当选总理，他于1月6日宣布，一旦通过他所说的“一个强大的、全国性的竞争过程”确定了新的政党领导人，他打算辞去自由党领导人和总理的职务。
总理候选人包括长期担任加拿大副总理的克里斯蒂娅·弗里德曼(Chrystia Freedman)，他在12月之前一直担任特鲁多的财政部长;弗兰克·贝利斯，商人，前下议院议员;Karina Gould，国会议员，曾在特鲁多内阁担任国际发展部长和民主机构部长;还有马克·卡尼，一位曾担任加拿大银行和英国银行行长的经济学家。
在投票前，从未担任过民选职务的卡尼成为了领先者。
卡尼是加拿大央行行长，他被认为在担任加拿大央行行长期间帮助引导该国度过了2008年金融危机的最糟糕时期。卡尼将唐纳德·特朗普总统的言论比作哈利·波特系列中的反派，特朗普总统也威胁要让加拿大成为美国第51个州。
59岁的卡尼上个月在温尼伯的一次活动中对支持者说:“当你想到总统这些荒谬、侮辱性的评论中的利害关系，以及我们可能会成为什么样的人时，我认为这是一种伏地魔的评论。”。
特鲁多最初表示，他将担任总理直到3月24日。他将被新的自由党领袖取代。
加拿大议会本应于1月27日开始2025年的新一届会议，但特鲁多要求总督延长会议，直到3月24日才开始新一届议会。
“我是一名战士。我身体里的每一根骨头都告诉我要战斗，因为我深深地关心加拿大人。我深深关心这个国家，我将永远以加拿大人的最佳利益为动力，”特鲁多在1月初宣布辞职计划时说。
当时，特鲁多表示，他认为他的辞职将“降温”，并允许议会重置，并“为加拿大人”重新工作。
特鲁多在宣布后回答记者提问时说:“我认为，议会需要重置，需要冷静下来，需要为加拿大人工作。”“让我不再担任将为该党参加下次选举的领导人，应该会减少我们目前的两极分化。”
据加拿大广播公司报道，特鲁多政党的支持率数月来稳步下降，自由党在1月初跌至多年来的最低水平。
最近几天，特鲁多在与美国爆发的贸易战中成为加拿大的形象代言人，特朗普对加拿大产品征收25%的关税。
加拿大对此的反击是对其征收25%的关税商品来自美国，包括美国橙汁，花生酱，咖啡，电器，鞋类，化妆品，摩托车，以及某些纸浆和纸制品。
加拿大财政部长多米尼克·勒布朗(Dominic LeBlanc)表示，在特朗普周四宣布暂停对加拿大和墨西哥部分产品征收一个月关税后，第二波报复性关税将暂停。
Mark Carney named as Canada's prime minister-elect amid US trade war
Canada selected a new prime minister-elect on Sunday night, as Justin Trudeau's reignnears a closeamid a trade war with the United States.
Canada's Liberal Party announced that Mark Carney was chosen to succeed Trudeau after party members voted in a nominating contest between four candidates.
In his acceptance speech, Carney addressed U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada and the threat Trump has posed towards the country, calling the current events the "greatest crisis of our lifetimes."
"We didn't ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves, so the Americans, they should make no mistake, in trade as in hockey, Canada will win," Carney said.
Indirectly addressing Trump's calls to make Canada the 51st state of the U.S., Carney added, "America is not Canada, and Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form."
Carney also criticized Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods and said he supports the retaliatory tariffs Canada has imposed on the U.S.
"Donald Trump has put, as we know, unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living, he's attacking Canadian workers, businesses and families... we cannot let him succeed and we won't," Carney said. "My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect."
Carney is expected to be sworn in sometime this week by the governor general of Canada, a representative in Canada of Britain's King Charles III.
The newly elected Liberal Party leader is expected to immediately call for an election as early as late April.
Trudeau, who was first elected prime minister in November 2015, announced on Jan. 6 his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader and prime minister once a new party leader is determined through what he said would be "a robust, nationwide, competitive process."
The candidates for prime minister included Chrystia Freedman, Canada's longtime deputy prime minister who, until December, served as Trudeau's finance minister; Frank Baylis, a businessman and former member of the House of Commons; Karina Gould, a member of Parliment, who served in Trudeau's Cabinet as minister of International Development and minister of Democratic Institutions; and Mark Carney, an economist who served as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Heading into the vote, Carney, who has never held an elected office, had emerged as a front-runner.
Carney, who as governor of the Bank of Canada, is credited with helping to guide the country through the worst of the 2008 financial crisis as governor of the Bank of Canada. Carney has compared the comments of President Donald Trump, who has also threatened to make Canada the 51st U.S. state, to a villain in the Harry Potter series.
"When you think about what's at stake in these ridiculous, insulting comments of the president, of what we could be, I view this as the sort of Voldemort of comments," the 59-year-old Carney told supporters at an event in Winnipeg last month.
Trudeau initially said he would serve as prime minister until March 24. He will then be replaced by the new Liberal Party leader.
The Canadian Parliament was supposed to begin its new session of 2025 on Jan. 27, but Trudeau had asked the governor general to extend and not start a new session of Parliament until March 24.
"I'm a fighter. Every bone in my body has always told me to fight because I care deeply about Canadians. I care deeply about this country, and I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians," Trudeau said when he announced his plans in early January to resign.
At the time, Trudeau said he believed his resignation would "bring the temperature down" and allow Parliament to reset and get back to work "for Canadians."
"Parliament needs a reset, I think, needs to calm down a bit and needs to get to work for Canadians," Trudeau said when answering reporters' questions following his announcement. "Removing me as the leader who will fight the next election for the party should decrease the polarization that we have right now."
Support for Trudeau's party has declined steadily for months, with the Liberals falling in early January to their lowest level of support in years, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
In recent days, Trudeau has emerged as the face of Canada in a trade war that erupted with the United States over 25% tariffs that Trump imposed on products from Canada.
Canada countered by imposing a 25% tariff ongoodsfrom the United States, including American orange juice, peanut butter, coffee, appliances, footwear, cosmetics, motorcycles, and certain pulp and paper products.
Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said a second wave of retaliatory tariffs would be suspended after Trump announced on Thursday that he is pausing for a month tariffs on some products from Canada and Mexico.
