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Will Carney pursue a deal with NDP?
May 3, 2025
Mr. Carney, will you be pursuing a formal governing pact of any kind with the NDP?
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kyle Dugen the Canadian Press mr carney
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will you be pursuing a formal governing
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pact of any kind with the NDP no
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short answer no and why not why um I
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that that's my response is uh we have uh
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I I we campaigned on a very clear uh set
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of objectives a very clear clear
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policies to back those up um and u we
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received the highest number of votes in
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Canadian history yes it is not quite a
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majority but highest number of votes as
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I said moments ago majorities in seven
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of the 10 provinces seats in all the
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provinces highest vote totals in and and
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and uh deputy counts in a number of
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those provinces um and it's also a a
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style of governing as well which is in
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order to do what we need to do as a
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country as a country we will need to
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work in partnership with all the
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provinces with indigenous peoples yes
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obviously by definition in parliament uh
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we will need to get uh majority support
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to pass legislation uh but this is
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legislation that Canadians or at least
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we will be putting forth legislation
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that's consistent with our platform um
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and consistent with the requirements of
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the time and I will has you know I will
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remind that it's not just words we are
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in a crisis you know if you look at uh I
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mean the the terrible manifestation of
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that today um in uh in Ashawa for uh the
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GM workers you know 2,000 GM workers and
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uh I just express uh my my you know uh
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deepest uh you know sympathy for them
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and their families a very difficult time
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um we are committed to supporting
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workers all the dollars from our tariffs
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going to sub uh support workers uh
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fighting hard for our auto sector all
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our sectors uh in these negotiations
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with the Americans um and making sure
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that um companies act in true
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partnership as well um in in maintaining
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employment and investment in Canada uh
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and if not there will be consequences
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for those companies thank you we will
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have time for one more very fast
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question katherine Lec from the National
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Post okay I'll try to make it too very
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fast primary that's the spirit that's
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the spirit Katherine that'll get me
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coming back your party picked up seats
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across the country but lost a few seats
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in Ontario why do you think that is and
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did those seats cost you your majority
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well I think arithmetically yes uh but
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you could pick we could pick other uh
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you know other seats that went various
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ways um uh you know we'll reflect on
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that i think uh what I as I said at the
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top what uh I take uh as the Canadians
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voted for many reasons um in different
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circumstances first and foremost um what
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we've been talking about most of this
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time standing up to the Americans
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getting the best deal for Canada that's
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there relatedly a strong economy economy
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that works for everyone but also uh
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clearly affordability issues we had a
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big focus on affordability affordability
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security and safety is I that that's
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what we take that's that's what we take
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as uh uh maybe I should say personally I
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take uh as as as the mandate that uh the
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focus of this government should be on
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those issues you know as you know to
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govern is to choose you have to decide
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where you're going to focus uh and I'm
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signaling and of course there will be a
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speech from the throne in subsequent uh
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communications but I'm signaling clearly
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uh where that focus is and can we expect
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uh your cabinet to be larger than your
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previous one and will France Philip
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Champang remain as finance minister did
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he ask you to ask that question
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now we know now we know your sources
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yeah um the um uh we will uh look I I
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committed to an efficient uh cabinet a
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focused cabinet uh cabinet with uh with
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parody gender par um and uh we'll uh
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we'll work towards it those final
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decisions haven't been made so Mr
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champang Da he he will have to
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wait sorry about that thank Thank you
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very Thank you very much thank you very
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much thank you very I think we have to
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uh respect the uh president of the uh we
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but we have to respect the um if I am
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truly sorry but the prime minister does
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have to go
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yeah of
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course okay that's fine that's by
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