Mark Carney to be sworn in as prime minister Friday: sources

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 5:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Prime minister-designate Mark Carney and his furniture volition beryllium sworn successful connected Friday astatine Rideau Hall, Radio-Canada and CBC News person learned.

The caller Liberal leader, who is taking implicit from outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has promised the modulation volition beryllium "seamless and it volition beryllium quick."

According to Radio-Canada and CBC News sources, Trudeau volition officially resign arsenic premier minister on Friday, thereby dissolving his cabinet. Carney and his furniture members volition then be sworn successful astatine Rideau Hall, the Governor General's authoritative residence.

As has been antecedently reported, erstwhile nationalist information curate Marco Mendicino, whom Trudeau removed from furniture successful 2023, is Carney's main of unit during the transition.

Radio-Canada has learned that erstwhile Quebec concern curate Carlos Leitão is successful talks with Carney's squad astir becoming a Liberal campaigner successful the adjacent election.

Leitão has made nary concealed of his involvement successful a imaginable instrumentality to politics. He and Carney person known each different for much than 15 years.

According to Radio-Canada sources, erstwhile Quebec premier Jean Charest has besides been approached by the Carney camp. It's unclear precisely what was offered, but Charest has nary volition of becoming a curate and would not accept an connection from Carney unless the Liberals win the national election.

Transition meetings ongoing

Since his landslide triumph connected Sunday, Carney has held a bid of meetings to hole for his caller role. He met with the Liberal caucus connected Monday, and Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman and Chief of the Defence Staff Jennie Carignan on Tuesday. He had meal with Ontario Premier Doug Ford connected Wednesday.

As portion of the preparations for the modulation betwixt Carney and Trudeau, Mendicino met the outgoing premier minister's unit for an hr connected Tuesday afternoon.

Although Trudeau and Carney beryllium to the aforesaid governmental party, the 2 teams are treating the modulation arsenic a marque caller administration. This means that Trudeau's unit person been emptying retired their offices, taking idiosyncratic belongings specified arsenic photos and archiving emails and documents.

It's expected that galore of the unit already moving successful the Prime Minister's Office volition stay successful place, astatine slightest until the adjacent national election, arsenic respective members of Carney's squad request to get their information clearance earlier taking up their caller duties. These clearances tin often instrumentality 2 weeks oregon more.

Once the swearing-in ceremonial is over, Carney is expected to telephone an predetermination earlier Parliament resumes connected March 24.

Carney visits steelworkers successful Hamilton

Dealing with the commercialized warfare launched by U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to beryllium astatine the apical of Carney's docket arsenic premier minister.

Carney said helium was prepared to speech straight with the U.S. president astir commercialized relations betwixt the 2 countries, but "under a presumption wherever there's respect for Canadian sovereignty."

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Carney's insistence connected Canadian sovereignty comes astatine a clip erstwhile Trump has repeated his tendency to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.

He besides called for a communal attack connected commercialized betwixt the countries.

Carney made the comments during a sojourn to steel shaper ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Hamilton connected Wednesday. The Trump medication imposed a 25 per cent tariff connected alloy and aluminum from each countries connected Wednesday. Canada is the U.S.'s starring supplier of both.

Canada is imposing 25 per cent tariffs on $29.8 cardinal of U.S. imports successful retaliation, efficaciously doubling its counter-tariffs successful place. Those instrumentality effect connected Thursday.