It's Monday, March 10, 2025. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, Canada is about to get a new prime minister as of action taken within the party election yesterday.

Mark Carney, a 59-year-old banker, is becoming

the head of Canada's Liberal Party, and thus he is going to become the next prime minister.

Now, all kinds of interesting aspects to this, including the fact that he has never been

elected to public office, and he does not hold a seat in Parliament. This is a first in

Canadian politics, but Canadian politics is in a new era, and at least a lot of it has to do,

not with developments in Canada, but developments across its southern border in the United States

of America. There is a lot for us to consider here. There's a lot of history. There are a lot of

worldview issues that are brought right into this consideration. So let's just consider Canada

for a moment. Canada has a population of about 40 million people right across America's northern

border. It has been a peaceful border now for about 200 or more years, and that has turned out to be

really, really crucial in terms of the development of both countries. The United States of America was a

country before Canada in one sense, even though Canada was established as a frontier and was indeed known as New France

as a French settlement as far back as the early 16th century, 1534. Now, just remember that

Martin Luther's Here I Stand moment was in 1517. So we are talking about a very interesting

period of history. When you think about American history, before there was the United States of America,

there were rival empires trying to establish their own imperial settlements in North America

in what became the United States.

You had French territory, you had Spanish territory, you had British territory. Eventually, of course,

you have 1776 in the American Revolution and America's national history began. Canada became a part

of the British Empire, officially in 1763, in the Treaty of Paris that came at the conclusion

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