N.L. party leaders split opinions on newest head of federal Liberals

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 11, 2025 7:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Political leaders successful Newfoundland and Labrador are sharing mixed reviews implicit the national Liberal Party's newest head.

Mark Carney won a landslide enactment ballot connected Sunday to go the person of the Liberal Party of Canada and the country's adjacent premier minister.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tony Wakeham said Monday helium hopes Carney sticks to his connection about dropping the national c taxation and acts rapidly to remove a projected $15 summation effectual April 1.

"It's the aforesaid Liberal authorities with a caller leader. A Liberal authorities that has not been benignant to Newfoundland and Labrador," Wakeham said. "This 20 per cent summation that's owed connected April 1 should not happen."

Newfoundland and Labrador's NDP Leader Jim Dinn said he's much focused connected the effort of his ain enactment federally, but did get a consciousness of optimism successful Carney and his supporters connected Sunday.

"Certainly determination is an optimism there, surely arsenic an antidote to Pierre Poilievre and his messaging," Dinn said. "Let's telephone a spade and spade, [Poilievre] has intimately aligned himself, it seems, with Trump and Elon Musk and that benignant of politics."

Outgoing Liberal Premier Andrew Furey was the astir supportive, saying the enactment is beardown astatine the national level.

"I deliberation helium volition service Canadians well, fixed this clip of uncertainty," Furey said.

Furey besides spoke to the committedness to region the national c tax, saying Carney heard his voice, and others successful the province, who were opposed.

Furey and outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau person historically disagreed connected the c tax. Furey has said it disproportionately affected Atlantic Canadians.

"Certainly successful the conversations that I had with [Carney], it was thing that I posed to him directly," Furey said.

"It's not a gross generator. It's to promote radical to alteration behaviour. Except, arsenic we know, there's not the quality to alteration behaviour particularly successful agrarian communities crossed our province."

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