Canada's prime minister tells Trump: You'll never own us
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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From the BBC World Service: After claiming victory in Canada's election, Prime Minister Mark Carney has strong words for the Trump administration. We'll hear what he has to say and unpack the role that antagonism from the U.S. president played in the election. Plus, what does Carney's win mean for Canada's economic relationship with the States? Meanwhile, energy giant BP faces new pressure from investors to pivot back to fossil fuels.
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| 0:00.0 | Canada's newly elected Prime Minister has a message for Donald Trump. |
| 0:05.0 | You'll never own us live from the UK. |
| 0:07.3 | This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:13.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:14.1 | Former central banker Mark Carney has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
| 0:17.6 | in a snap election dominated by the country's relationship with the US. |
| 0:21.8 | BBC's Leastisette reports from the country's capital, Ottawa. |
| 0:25.1 | It's an extraordinary moment in Canadian political history. Only months ago, the Liberal Party |
| 0:30.8 | was trailing by double digits. Only months ago, the former banker Mark Carney had no political |
| 0:36.7 | experience. But he has led his party to a fourth term. |
| 0:40.9 | Due in large part to his political rival who wasn't on the ballot. |
| 0:45.3 | U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to take over Canada. |
| 0:50.5 | In his victory speech, Mr. Carney reiterated that would never happen. |
| 0:55.3 | As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. |
| 1:05.4 | Never. But these are not idle threats. |
| 1:11.4 | President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. |
| 1:17.2 | That will never, that will never, ever happen. |
| 1:20.7 | Mr. Carney also stressed repeatedly that he would be a prime minister for all Canadians, |
| 1:26.7 | including the millions who didn't vote for him. |
| 1:29.8 | He called for a unity in a country which confronts its own internal problems, including |
| 1:35.4 | regional tensions over Canada's future. |
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