Has Canada found the leader to take on Trump?

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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"America is not Canada, and Canada never ever will be part of America in any way." The words of the chiselled ice hockey player and former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney who is Canada's new Prime Minister. He's unafraid of Trump, has mocked his economic policy, and his expansionist pretensions. He's put the Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau in poll position to win the next general election against the Conservatives, and against all the odds. Will he become the pin up for centrists around the world looking for a muscular response to Trump?

Later, what's happening in the Reform party? Nigel Farage and Elon Musk's favourite Reform MP, Rupert Lowe, have fallen out badly. Who's lying? And what impact is it having on the party's fortunes?

And for LBC's Online Safety Day we ask More in Common's Luke Tryl why the public is so ahead of the politicians when it comes to tougher action in this digital age.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.8	This is a global player original podcast. So Donald Trump thinks, thanks, he can weaken us with his
0:17.6	plan to divide and conquer.
0:21.6	Pierre Poyev's plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered.
0:28.6	Because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him.
0:38.5	That is Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, who overnight is becoming
0:44.8	Canada's new prime minister. He's ready to fight an election against the conservative Pierre
0:51.7	Poliev, who he considers Trump's poodle.
0:55.6	How did he get to this place on what's going on now between Canada and the USA?
1:00.7	There's no doubt that Mark Carney has been on quite a journey since he was governor of the Bank of England.
1:07.4	But is it possible that the emergence of Carney as the Canadian Prime Minister,
1:13.1	slick, smart, articulate, is going to be the counterfoil to Trump, not just in Canada, but around
1:20.9	the liberal world. Welcome to the newsagents. The News Agents.
1:28.2	It's John.
1:28.9	It's Emily.
1:29.8	And a little bit later on, we're going to be looking at the whole issue of online safety.
1:34.6	Global are doing a kind of day of this on LBC about how you keep people safe online.
1:40.0	And there's some fascinating poll findings from Luke Trill, from More in Common, and we'll be speaking to him a little bit later on.
1:46.3	But we're going to start unusually in Canada, where a figure that you will probably be familiar with, or slightly familiar with, Mark Carney, has just won a landslide vote within his party, the Liberal Party of Canada, to become the next Prime Minister.
2:03.7	You will probably be aware that Justin Trudeau, who has served three terms, has fallen
2:09.1	massively out of favour with the US administration. Trump keeps referring to him as the governor,
2:16.0	the governor of Canada. He keeps talking about Canada as the 51st state.
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