After landslide victory, Mark Carney meets with Trudeau as transition to power begins

John Paul Tasker · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 1:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Prime minister-designate Mark Carney is gathering with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday arsenic the caller Liberal person takes the reins of powerfulness aft a landslide triumph successful Sunday's enactment election.

Carney has besides tapped a acquainted look to service arsenic his main of staff: existent MP and erstwhile furniture curate Marco Mendicino.

Sources adjacent to the caller Liberal person told CBC News that Mendicino, who served arsenic nationalist information curate nether Trudeau earlier being shuffled retired of furniture successful 2023, volition service arsenic chief of unit arsenic Carney shifts from leadership run mode to governing.

Mendicino joined Carney for the gathering with Trudeau.

A spokesperson for Carney said Mendicino's assignment is simply a impermanent 1 done this modulation period.

Canada does not person a agelong past of elected politicians serving arsenic a premier minister's main of unit — though Jean Pelletier, a erstwhile politician of Quebec City, did play that relation for erstwhile premier curate Jean Chrétien.

Mendicino was dropped from furniture amid a backlash implicit his handling of convicted murderer Paul Bernardo's determination from a maximum-security situation successful Ontario to a medium-security installation successful Quebec.

In summation to his sit-down with Trudeau, Carney is expected to conscionable with Liberal MPs astatine a caucus gathering connected Parliament Hill.

WATCH | Mark Carney becomes premier minister-designate: 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was scathing successful his appraisal of Carney aft Sunday's vote.

"He's conscionable similar Justin. He's conscionable the aforesaid — aforesaid advisers, aforesaid staff. That volition nutrient the aforesaid results," helium said.

Sources accidental galore of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's unit volition beryllium replaced.

Poilievre said Carney has a "disastrous past arsenic an economical adviser" to Trudeau.

Carney offered immoderate proposal to the authorities astatine the outset of the pandemic and was recruited past autumn to Trudeau's economical advisory council.

"Trump volition person a briefing connected his table of each Carney's American investments and we cognize Carney volition merchantability retired Canada for his idiosyncratic nett arsenic an insider," Poilievre said.

It's not known however galore American investments Carney holds.

As of past April, the caller person does own shares in Brookfield Asset Management, which moved its caput bureau from Toronto to New York past twelvemonth but is inactive publically commercialized connected the Toronto Stock Exchange. Carney was the company's committee president earlier resigning to tally for Liberal leadership.

WATCH | Poilievre compares his grounds to caller Liberal Leader Mark Carney 

Liberal MPs were jubilant Monday astir Carney's landslide victory — helium pulled successful a stunning 86 per cent of the points, easy crushing his competitors.

"Mark Carney is what Canada needs to woody with the U.S.," said longtime Liberal MP Judy Sgro.

She said Poilievre doesn't person what it takes to basal up to U.S. President Donald Trump arsenic Canada stares down his 51st authorities taunts and the menace of economical ruin.

"He's 100 miles up of Pierre Poilievre. He has the economical cognition that Canada needs to physique our state up. Poilievre has obscurity adjacent that benignant of cognition — he's similar a small kid compared to Carney," she said.

That connection was the lips connected each MP who stopped to speech to reporters up of the caucus meeting.

Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, himself a trained economist, said Poilievre knows thing astir the system and would beryllium the incorrect prime astatine this important inflection point.

Poilievre served arsenic the party's concern professional nether erstwhile leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole.

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said the state needs an experienced idiosyncratic similar Carney, a erstwhile cardinal banker successful some Canada and the U.K., to pb Canada done the commercialized war.

"Mark Carney is simply a precise bully antheral for this infinitesimal and I anticipation we tin person the Canadian radical of that fact," McGuinty said.

Liberal MP Kody Blois, the Atlantic caucus chair, said Carney's candidacy has been a changeable successful the limb for the party.

There are galore much radical wanting to tally for the Liberals present than determination were 2 months agone erstwhile Trudeau's popularity was astatine a debased point, helium said.

The enactment confirmed Sunday it already has 160 candidates lined up to tally for the Liberals successful the adjacent wide election. There are 343 ridings up for grabs.

Blois said "candidate recruitment is going precise well" successful his portion successful particular, with "some truly beardown radical stepping forward."

"I really similar the opposition of Carney against Pierre Poilievre who is resembling what we're seeing southbound of the border," helium said, referring to Trump. "Carney is the mature dependable we request successful this moment."

"People are excited to tally for us," added MP Karina Gould, who pulled astir 3 per cent of the points successful Sunday's enactment election.