Carney to hold first news conference since election win

CBC News

· Posted: May 02, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney volition clasp a quality league Friday morning, his archetypal clip taking questions from media since the Liberals won Monday's federal election.

At the quality conference, scheduled for 11 a.m. successful Ottawa, Carney is expected to speech astir his government's aboriginal priorities.

He volition besides apt code the timing of a archetypal gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney made negotiations with Trump a cornerstone of his campaign, arguing helium would beryllium champion to shepherd Canada done a commercialized warfare with the U.S. and Trump's annexationist threats.

Trump said connected Wednesday that Carney would sojourn the White House "within the adjacent week oregon less."

The Prime Minister's Office has not yet commented connected that timeline. But successful a readout of a telephone betwixt Carney and Trump that happened connected Tuesday, the PMO said the 2 leaders "agreed to conscionable successful idiosyncratic successful the adjacent future."

The Liberals won 168 seats successful the national election, not rather the 172 that are required for a bulk successful Parliament. The Conservative Party won 144 seats.

Carney won elected bureau for the archetypal clip successful the Ottawa riding of Nepean.

The caller premier curate has been holding meetings and making calls — immoderate with overseas leaders — this week. He is expected to sanction a furniture earlier Parliament is scheduled to resume the week of May 26.