New PM says Canada deserves respect from America

新任总理表示加拿大应得到美国的尊重。

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2025-04-30

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his country deserves respect from the United States and will only enter trade and security talks on its own terms. He was speaking to the BBC just before his Liberal Party's election victory was announced. Newshour hears from newly-elected Conservative MP Andrew Lawton. Also in the programme: Trump's first 100 days in office; and Malta ordered to end "golden passports". (Picture: Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney dances during an event at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 29, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour Live from the BBC World Service in London.

  • I'm Rebecca Kesby.

  • They say a week is a long time in politics.

  • Well, four months is an eon.

  • At the beginning of this year,

  • a betting person would have put money and possibly lots of it on the Conservative Party to win in the next Canadian election,

  • possibly by a landslide.

  • At the time, the governing Liberal Party was so far behind in the polls,

  • they may have even struggled to come second.

  • Four months on and it's a completely different story.

  • It's victory for the Liberals and their new leader, Mark Carney.

  • and the Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, has not only lost the chance to be Prime Minister,

  • but has actually lost his seat in the House of Commons.

  • This was the scene at the Liberal Party headquarters last night as the announcements came in.

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

  • It is not yet clear at this hour whether it will be a Liberal government.

  • So what went right for the Liberals and what went wrong for the Conservatives?

  • And could one word answer both those questions?

  • Is that word Trump?

  • A short while ago, I caught up with our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette, in Ottawa.