Carney blames U.S. aggression toward Canada on social inequality down south
Federal Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney blamed U.S. aggression toward Canada on social inequality in our neighbour to the south — and compared Donald Trump’s musings about annexation to the villain from the Harry Potter novels.
Speaking at the King’s Head Pub in Winnipeg on Monday evening, Carney told a crowd of several hundred supporters Canada faces a crisis due to U.S. threats against the Canadian economy, but insisted Canada does not face an existential crisis.
Some U.S. citizens, he said, support Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports because they are envious of what Canada has in terms of health care.
“I think that Americans built their social safety net with enormous holes in it, that tens of millions of people fell through,” Carney said during a short speech on the second floor of the Exchange District pub.
“The Americans worshipped at the altar of the market and the gains were not spread across that society, and now there’s a backlash.
“There’s a backlash, and that backlash is leading to them pushing out against us.”
The former Bank of Canada governor said he would not dignify annexation talk from Trump, who has made repeated statements about wanting Canada to become 51st U.S. state.
“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,” he said. “Like I will not even repeat it, but you know what I’m talking about.”
Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould, Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla are seeking to become federal Liberal leader. The party plans to choose that leader, who would become Canada’s next prime minister, on March 9.
While Carney was speaking inside the pub, Alberta Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner stood on the sidewalk, posting a live video to Facebook.
“There are so many people who can’t afford to make ends meet,” she said. “Right behind us, the Liberals are having a cocktail reception.”
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