Carney wins Canada's election, riding Canadian anger at Trump to victory
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, results are in on an election north of the border, plus Trump marks 100 days in office. |
| 0:19.8 | And we discuss civil liberties concerns over plain-clothed |
| 0:22.5 | ice agents and detentions. Mark Carney has won Canada's election to continue his term as prime |
| 0:29.7 | minister. Both CBC and Canada and the Associated Press projected Carney as the winner. His win marked |
| 0:35.3 | a repudiation of President Donald Trump's threats to annex Canada and make it the 51st state. |
| 0:41.0 | At rhetoric, along with punishing tariffs on Canadian goods, has sparked an unprecedented wave of Canadian nationalism and overturned years of stability between the typically friendly neighbors. |
| 0:50.2 | Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration is over. |
| 0:58.8 | Carney's win means liberals retained power but fell short of a majority government. |
| 1:03.3 | You can read more with a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:09.6 | Today marks President Donald Trump's 100th day in office. |
| 1:13.0 | And he said that he runs the world. |
| 1:15.1 | In an interview with the Atlantic, Trump told the magazine, quote, the first time I had |
| 1:18.6 | two things to do, run the country and survive. |
| 1:21.2 | I had all these crooked guys. |
| 1:22.8 | And the second time I run the country and the world, unquote. |
| 1:26.6 | Trump has pushed the boundaries of the presidency |
| 1:28.4 | during his first hundred days back in the White House, signing more than 140 executive orders |
| 1:33.3 | to unilaterally achieve his policy aims and seek retribution against political adversaries. |
| 1:39.0 | But his approval rating has taken a hit, falling to 39 percent in a new poll from the |
| 1:43.4 | Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos. |
| 1:46.0 | In particular, Americans are concerned about the economy and his recent use of tariffs. |
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