Mark Carney's Liberal Party wins Canadian general election

卡尼的自由党赢得加拿大大选

Newshour

新闻

2025-04-29

47 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

In a remarkable turnaround, Canada’s Liberal Party has won a fourth consecutive term. It had been trailing by 15 to 20 points behind the Conservative opposition. But it’s not yet clear if they’ll command a majority in parliament. We ask a Liberal Party MP about the challenges ahead. Also in the programme: a vaccine that does not need to be refrigerated starts human trials in the UK; and the chaos that yesterday’s power outage in Spain left in its trail – we hear the tale of one high speed train passenger who ended up overnight in a rural village. Photo: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses supporters at the Liberal Party election night event in Ottawa, Ontario Credit: ERIC REID/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm James Menendez.

  • Canada's next government will be a liberal government.

  • It is not yet clear at this hour.

  • That's the Canadian national broadcaster CBC announcing the results from Monday's general election,

  • a fourth consecutive term for the Liberal Party,

  • now led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, following Justin Trudeau's resignation earlier this year.

  • But it is not yet clear whether they'll command a majority in Parliament.

  • Nevertheless,

  • it is a remarkable turnaround for a party that had been trailing by 15 to 20 points behind the Conservative opposition.

  • Until that is Donald Trump returned to the...

  • the White House launched his trade war and began threatening to turn Canada into America's 51st state,

  • a fact acknowledged by Mark Carney speaking last night when it became clear he would remain as prime minister.

  • We are once again at one of those hinge moments of history.

  • 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,

  • a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War,

  • a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades, is over.