Carney heading to Calgary for first Alberta campaign stop

Dylan Robertson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 8:54 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Liberal Leader Mark Carney heads to Calgary tonight, for his archetypal Alberta halt successful a run wherever he's been drafting a opposition with Premier Danielle Smith.

Carney is successful the Vancouver area and volition commencement his time with a property league successful the suburb of Delta. He volition past sojourn a section concern successful New Westminster, earlier flying to Calgary successful the afternoon.

Carney is acceptable to clasp a rally successful Calgary with section candidates.

Conservative candidates successful Alberta person been heavy criticizing Carney, suggesting helium has fixed mixed messages connected whether helium supports the vigor assemblage and gathering much pipelines.

The Liberals are hoping a meteoric emergence successful the polls volition hold, and let them to physique connected the 2 Alberta seats they had erstwhile Parliament was dissolved past month.

The enactment had an Edmonton MP, Randy Boissonnault, who resigned from furniture amid varying claims astir his Indigenous ancestry and questions astir concern dealings.

The Liberals had a Calgary MP, George Chahal, who paid a $500 good aft a video showed him replacing an opponent's pamphlet with his ain during the 2021 election.

On Monday, Carney told a rally successful Richmond, B.C., that helium hopes to unify the state with workable solutions to the problems Canada faces.

"I'm not a vocation politician. I americium a pragmatist," helium declared, prompting roaring applause from thousands gathered successful a edifice ballroom.

Lynn Pernisie said she attended the rally with her hubby Darrell due to the fact that they were encouraged by Carney's pledge to accelerate location building. She said the Liberals' investments implicit the past decennary are lone present starting to marque a difference.

"Prices are dropping disconnected and truthful galore condos are being built, truthful I deliberation there's going to beryllium a change," she said.

The mates built a beingness successful Vancouver since moving from Saskatchewan much than 3 decades ago, but they accidental galore friends are struggling to bash the aforesaid nether "astronomical" lodging prices.

She supported Justin Trudeau's authorities but said she feels that "Carney has a batch of truly bully acquisition that Justin didn't have."

Carney told Monday's rally that the Liberals would basal up for Canada against fights helium said the U.S. has been picking.

"Canadians are ever acceptable erstwhile idiosyncratic other drops the gloves," helium said.

Earlier this week, Carney said Ontario Premier Doug Ford had been pushing Canada's lawsuit connected the blimpish Fox News network, wherever Carney said it would beryllium "a atrocious idea" to person Smith appear.

Smith has travel nether occurrence for telling U.S. media that the White House should intermission the tariffs until aft the election, and suggesting that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is "very overmuch successful sync" with the Trump administration.

Smith changeable backmost astatine Carney connected Monday, saying that his jokes suggest the aforesaid benignant of dismissive cognition she encountered erstwhile dealing with erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau.

On Monday evening, Carney told dozens of supporters gathered successful an overflow country extracurricular a rally successful Richmond, B.C. that Canada is warring U.S. tariffs utilizing the tools that volition work.

"Americans recognize 3 things: money, lawyers and Fox News," helium said.