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CBC
25-03-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Carney apologizes to Montreal massacre survivor running for Liberals after getting name and school wrong
Social Sharing Liberal Leader Mark Carney named the wrong university as the site of the 1989 Montreal massacre on Tuesday — and flubbed the last name of the survivor who is running with his party. At a campaign stop in Musquodoboit Harbour in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, Carney made a nod to Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost but made two critical mistakes in the process. "You want les défenseurs de la justice sociale, like Nathalie Pronovost à Montréal," Carney said, calling Provost a defender of social justice. He then repeated Provost's name, making the same mistake and adding another. "Nathalie Pronovost, who out of the tragedy of the shootings at Concordia, became a social justice activist and she's put her hand up and she's running for us." The shooting happened at Polytechnique, the engineering school at the Université de Montréal. Carney said he apologized in a call to Provost soon after, but Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was quick to seize on the blunders, the day after Carney had made another Quebec-related gaffe in turning down an invitation to TVA's Face-à-Face debate. "Ms. Provost will run her campaign, but she should inform her leader of who she is, what she did and what happened because it is one of the saddest, most dramatic wounds in the history of Quebec and I think Mr. Carney should know that," Blanchet said. He also posted about the incident on X, saying the Bloc had supported Provost's years of efforts to get the Liberals to change gun laws. Provost is the Liberal candidate for a suburban riding outside of Montreal, Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville. Her candidacy was leaked to French-language media last week, days before Carney asked for an election. She is well known in Quebec and across the country for her years of lobbying for stronger gun control, alongside fellow massacre survivor Heidi Rathjen. The two survivors were honoured on Parliament Hill in February 2024 for their group PolySeSouvient's work. WATCH | Carney's two mistakes on campaign Day 2: Carney names wrong school when talking about Montreal massacre 1 hour ago Duration 0:34 Provost was shot four times at Polytechnique when she was 23. She even spoke up to the gunman before he shot all nine women in Provost's classroom. The gunman killed 14 people as well as himself and injured another 15. He said he wanted to fight feminism. Name mistake was a 'typo': Provost In an interview in French with CBC News Tuesday afternoon, Provost said she herself struggles with people's names. "For someone to butcher my name by adding two letters does not offend me because it's something I could have done," she said. "It's just a typo." The mistake he won't make twice, though, Provost said, is getting the place where the worst mass killing of women in Canadian history happened wrong. Provost said she believes Carney was abroad at the time of the massacre, but that she also believes he was affected by it, just like every other Canadian. "He got the essence of who I am," in his remarks, Provost said. "I am a woman committed to gun control because I was the victim of a shooting. All that is true." Provost noted she was the one who reached out to the Liberal Party in the first place.
CBC
01-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
Mark Carney says he's begun the process of renouncing Irish, U.K. citizenship
Social Sharing Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he's written to the British and Irish governments to begin the process of renouncing his citizenship in both countries, leaving him solely with Canadian citizenship if the process is completed. At a leadership event in Oakville, Ont., on Friday night, Carney told reporters his belief is that as prime minister, he should hold only one citizenship. "I have already initiated the process to renounce my citizenships in both the United Kingdom and Ireland," he said. Carney, who was born in Canada, has held Irish citizenship for decades. He became a British citizen in 2018, five years after he began serving as governor of the Bank of England. The former Bank of Canada governor told reporters there are "several members of the House of Commons who have several passports," and there have been leaders of other federal political parties, like the Conservatives, who hold multiple citizenship. "I'm not judging those other people," Carney said. "I'm saying as prime minister, I should only hold one citizenship." During the 2019 federal election, the Globe and Mail revealed that then-Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's father is an American by birth and passed along his citizenship to Scheer and his siblings. Scheer pledged on the campaign trail to renounce his U.S. citizenship, but he reversed course after the Conservatives lost the election. In 2020, Scheer told reporters that "given the fact that I won't be prime minister, I discontinued the process." A CBC News investigation found that at least 56 parliamentarians from the 2015-19 Parliament — 44 MPs and 12 senators — had been born outside Canada. At least 22 of them had citizenship from other countries. Anand changes course, seeks re-election Transport Minister Anita Anand, who attended Carney's event in Oakville, her riding, told reporters that he encouraged her to throw her name back in the mix for re-election after she previously announced she would not run. Anand also said Carney's leadership experience and past work leading countries through economic crises played a role in her decision to seek re-election. WATCH | Transport Minister Anita Anand confirms she'll run in the next federal election: Anand says Canada is facing 'economic crisis of our time,' confirms she will run in next election 1 day ago Duration 0:59 While speaking to reporters in Toronto on Friday, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Anita Anand is asked why she is going to run in the next federal election after previously announcing she wouldn't. Anand says she wants to support Canada during a time of potential U.S. tariffs and help with reducing internal trade barriers. "But most of all, I see Canada in an existential, economic crisis," she said, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs that are slated to go into effect on Tuesday. "I simply cannot leave at this time. One day I will return to academia, but now is not the time — when Canada needs everyone to step up." With a possible federal election in the spring, the Liberals are in the process of selecting their next leader, following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement in January that he'll resign. The four remaining contenders going into the home stretch are Carney, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former House leader Karina Gould and former Liberal MP Frank Baylis. The Liberal Party will choose its next leader — and Canada's next prime minister — on March 9, and Parliament is scheduled to resume on March 24.
CBC
27-01-2025
- Business
- CBC
Freeland's 'plan to stand up to Trump' targets $200B worth of U.S. goods
Social Sharing Liberal leadership contender Chrystia Freeland released Monday what she's calling her "plan to stand up to Trump" — a policy document that includes the threat of big tariffs on U.S. goods to make the Americans pay if they go after the Canadian economy. Freeland called on the federal government to take a hard line and "immediately publish a detailed, dollar-for-dollar retaliation list" that includes $200 billion worth of U.S. products that could be subject to Canadian trade action if President Donald Trump moves against this country. Freeland said publishing that sort of list, before Trump even levies any tariffs, would be a sort of pre-emptive strike and a way to remind the American political establishment that coming after Canada will come at a cost. "Being smart means retaliating where it hurts," Freeland said. "If President Trump imposes 25 per cent tariffs, our counterpunch must be dollar-for-dollar — and it must be precisely and painfully targeted," she said. She also wants to convene an "international summit" to form some sort of "coalition" of aggrieved countries that face threats from Trump. She said the summit should include leaders of Mexico, Denmark, Panama and the European Union. Like Canada, Trump has threatened Mexico and the EU with punishing tariffs and has suggested the U.S. could forcibly annex Greenland, a Danish territory, and the Panama Canal. "Trump thinks we are for sale and that he can push us around. This is a serious moment that demands a serious plan to fight for Canada," Freeland said. WATCH | Why Freeland says counter-tariffs are the best way to fight Trump: Why Freeland says counter tariffs are the best way to fight Trump 4 hours ago Duration 1:23 Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says dollar-for-dollar tariffs will send U.S. President Donald Trump the message that "Canada is not for sale." Freeland has made fighting back against Trump the centrepiece of her leadership campaign so far. She has sought to remind Liberal voters she played a crucial role in renegotiating NAFTA the last time Trump was in office. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday that Canada is still trying to get Trump to hold off slapping tariffs on Canadian goods through diplomacy. But, if the tariffs go ahead, Canada is ready to respond with its own measures, she said. "We will be ready for day one," she said. Asked about Freeland's call to release a list of goods that could be hit with tariffs before Trump strikes, Joly said: "We believe diplomacy can work and that's why we're having conversations and we won't negotiate in front of the public." Joly said there's still a chance that Canada's arguments against tariffs will sway Trump to drop his threats. She said Canada is the biggest customer for U.S. goods and services and, when you exclude oil exports, which are driven by U.S. demand, the Americans actually have a trade surplus with Canada. "We hope facts will prevail," she said. As part of the diplomacy push, Joly said Canada is talking to allies, including the EU, the United Kingdom and Mexico, about Trump's threatened trade action and how they could collectively respond. WATCH | Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on a dollar-for-dollar list: 'We believe that diplomacy can work' to prevent U.S. tariffs, says Joly 14 minutes ago Duration 0:43 Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says the federal government is working every day to prevent tariffs from the United States. Joly says due to the unpredictability of the new administration, Canada has to be ready and working to both prevent tariffs and develop a response. Joly will also meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday. The world got its first look at how Trump plans to deploy tariffs to get what he wants from other countries over the weekend. The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, initially refused to accept deportees sent from the U.S. on American military planes only to change his mind when Trump went ahead with 25 per cent tariffs on Colombian goods. Trump signalled late Sunday he would lift the tariffs after Petro agreed to take back Colombians who entered the U.S. illegally and were kicked out. WATCH | Colombia agrees to accept U.S. deportation flights after Trump tariff threat: Colombian President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster after his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened tariffs and sanctions to punish Colombia for refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees. Trump is using trade threats to "unsettle Canadians," Freeland said, and Canada should do the same. Drawing up a list of goods that may face retaliatory tariffs could lead to political pressure from the business community on Trump to back off, she said. Freeland said targeting $200 billion worth of American goods for potential tariffs will make U.S. exporters "worry whether their businesses will be the ones we hit." She floated tariffs on products coming from Trump's own state and swing states that were competitive in the last election. Freeland said Florida orange growers, Wisconsin dairy farmers and Michigan dishwasher manufacturers should be potential targets for Canadian retaliatory tariffs. Canada followed a similar playbook when Trump hit Canadian steel and aluminum with tariffs in his first term. If Trump goes ahead with tariffs, the former finance minister also said she wants the federal government to immediately "stop the purchasing of any goods from any U.S. companies," with some national security exceptions.
