Mark Carney camp offers role to former Quebec premier Jean Charest: sources

Prime minister-designate Mark Carney's squad has approached erstwhile Quebec premier Jean Charest to connection him a role, Radio-Canada is reporting. 

The quality of the presumption is unknown. But according to sources with cognition of the discussion, Charest has nary volition of becoming a minister.

CBC News is not identifying the root due to the fact that they were not authorized to talk publically connected the matter. 

Charest, who was instrumental successful mounting successful question the Canada-European Union escaped commercialized statement (CETA), is presently a subordinate of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Council connected Canada-U.S. Relations. 

In 2022, Charest ran unsuccessfully against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the party's enactment race. The erstwhile Quebec Liberal Party premier secured only 11.65 per cent of the fashionable ballot compared to Poilievre who won 70.7 per cent. 

Charest was besides a Progressive Conservative MP successful the 1990s and the national party's leader.

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While it is important for allies of Canada to defend the country, "no 1 is going to basal up for america successful the mode that we person to basal up for ourselves," Charest said successful an interrogation past week with CBC's Rosemary Barton Live.

"We person to travel to presumption with the information that we're going to unrecorded successful a precise antithetic world. And that's existent post-Trump," he said. "At the extremity of the day, it's astir us. Our future. Set speech Mr. Trump. Set speech Mr. Starmer. What bash we, arsenic Canadians, privation to physique arsenic an economy, arsenic a society?"