Shock To Strategy: Mark Carney Rallies Canada Against U.S. Bullying, Betrayal

India-West News Desk

OTTAWA – “America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” Mark Carney said in a  blistering acceptance speech as the new Prime Minister of Canada on April 28. “These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never ever happen.”

He added, “We are over the shock over American betrayal. But we will never forget the lessons.”

Carney’s fierce rebuke of Trump’s aggressive posture toward Canada — including tariffs and even threats of annexation — marked a turning point in a campaign that had long favored Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

Poilievre, whose “Canada First” rhetoric and combative tone echoed Trump’s style, suddenly found himself on the defensive. Voters recoiled. The polling gap narrowed and then flipped.

On April 28, Carney and the Liberals completed a dramatic comeback victory, fueled by surging patriotism and rising fears of American overreach. For many Canadians, the contest had become not just about domestic issues but about sovereignty — and the future of multilateralism in an increasingly fractured world.

The former central banker, uniquely the first to lead both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is now being watched far beyond Ottawa. International observers, especially in Australia, have taken notice says Reuters. Australian strategists say Carney’s victory — and the way Poilievre was punished for channeling Trump — is rippling into their own national election, set for May 3.

Back in Canada, Carney has signaled his priorities: deepening trade ties with Europe, Japan, Australia, and other Asian democracies, while rapidly investing in infrastructure to reduce reliance on the United States, said Reuters.

In his victory speech, Carney declared the end of an era: “Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over. The system of open global trade anchored by the United States… is over.”–