Canadian Electioncast
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we react to Mark Carney pulling off a surprise victory in the Canadian election as leader of the Liberal Party.
Adam is joined by chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and host of CBC News daily news podcast Front Burner Jayme Poisson to discuss how Carney, who has never held political office, has managed to win the election despite the Conservatives leading in nationwide polls for over a year before Donald Trump was elected as US president.
Also, economics editor Faisal Islam speaks to Adam about his exclusive interview with Mark Carney
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we're all very familiar with how the exit poll is announced on election night here in the UK. |
| 0:10.2 | But how does it sound in Canada on the national broadcaster there? |
| 0:14.0 | Canada, get ready. |
| 0:14.9 | Our CBC News Decision Desicions Desicc is ready to make a call. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay. to make a call. Canada's next government will be a liberal government. |
| 0:28.6 | It is not yet clear at this hour whether it will be a minority or majority. |
| 0:33.8 | It sounded more like the chase to me, but Mark Carney and his Liberal Party have chased the |
| 0:39.6 | Conservatives into second place in the Canadian General election, an outcome that a few |
| 0:44.4 | months ago very few people would have predicted or said was even possible, and which today |
| 0:49.5 | many people are saying is the result of Donald Trump's influence on his northern neighbour. |
| 0:55.3 | We'll discuss what's gone on and we will interpret Mark Carney's first big international interview |
| 1:01.9 | since his election victory, which he gave to a friend of newscast, Faisal Islam. |
| 1:06.7 | So that's all to come on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:09.6 | And towards the end, we will bring it back to British Shores, because we'll have an installment of remoter local voter. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fan. I don't believe I said that. Next Wednesday. This is R for the benefit of Earth. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. |
| 1:30.8 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:32.2 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:33.3 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:35.0 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:36.8 | Blimey. |
| 1:37.2 | Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio, and I woke up this morning on Tuesday |
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