Windsor Liberal MP expects quick federal election call as Carney wins party leadership

Heather Kitching · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 10, 2025 10:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 10

Windsor-Tecumseh Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk expects Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney to telephone an predetermination rapidly to gain a mandate to woody with American tariff threats.

Kusmierczyk talked to CBC Monday greeting aft Carney won the Liberal enactment race Sunday nighttime with much than 85 per cent of the vote.

"We are acceptable to go, and we deliberation it's going to travel accelerated due to the fact that we request that beardown mandate to beryllium capable to woody with Donald Trump and the tariffs," helium said. 

"That is going to beryllium the question connected the summons during this election. ... Who do you spot to pb Canada done these Trump tariffs? Who's going to basal up to Donald Trump? And the prime couldn't beryllium clearer."

Kusmierczyk supported Carney's bid for the Liberal enactment and praised him during Monday's interview, calling him the close campaigner for the moment.

He touted Carney's acquisition guiding economies arsenic some the politician of the Bank of Canada and the politician of the Bank of England. 

"He has that acquisition guiding nations done crises, and helium has the acquisition and the connection to unite Canadians," Kusmierczyk said.

"On the different side, you person Pierre Polievre, a lifelong person who, for the past 2 years, his connection has been 1 of 'Canada is broken,' and I conscionable don't deliberation that that is the connection that resonates with Canadians today, astatine a clip erstwhile we request to unite, erstwhile we request to amusement a azygous unified beardown beforehand to combat Donald Trump.

The Conservatives issued a quality merchandise aft Carney's win, attempting to nexus him to rising market prices and unpopular Trudeau authorities policies, calling connected him to beryllium transparent astir his fiscal interests and accusing him of lying astir his relation successful a determination to determination the office of Brookfield, whose committee helium chaired, to the United States. 

"The Liberals are trying to propulsion a sneaky instrumentality connected Canadians," the enactment said successful a quality release. 

"They deliberation that they tin instrumentality Canadians into reelecting them for a 4th word by replacing Justin Trudeau with Mark Carney, Trudeau's apical economical advisor and hand-picked successor."

Polls person shown the Liberals closing the spread connected the Conservatives since Donald Trump began threatening to marque Canada a 51st authorities and pursuing done with his threats to enforce tariffs connected Canadian goods.

"I springiness a batch of kudos, obviously, to Canadians," Kusmierczyk said.

"They're rallying together. They're uniting unneurotic nether this threat. They admit …that it's not conscionable economical warfare, but our sovereignty is nether nonstop attack, and truthful Canadians are rallying astir Mark Carney. They're rallying astir this authorities to beryllium capable to, again, combat these unjustified tariffs to support Canada's sovereignty."